Two Guys, One Track: Sperm Racing Is Now a Thing—Yes, It Involves Crypto

While sports gambling takes over America and crypto -days are looking for their next score, a new kind of competition was born: Sperma Racing. Yes, really.

Students are ready to offer sperm samples in next week’s competition, where their respective swimmers will racing in a small course specially designed for the sport. And yes, you can bet on the outcome with cryptocurrency.

It may sound like a joke, but there is real money behind the effort – and, his makers believe, a valuable goal. The co-founders of the project Eric Zhu” Nick Small” Shane FanAnd Garrett Niconienko Suppose the competition can encourage men to re -assess their health in an attempt to stimulate the sperm performance, and has already succeeded in luring $ 1.5 million in seed financing of recognizable names in the Venture Capital World, such as Figment Capital.

Here is how the, eh, new race will work:

The competitors have an hour to successfully ejaculate in a cup. These samples are then entered in a “microfluidic chip” that is designed to imitate the reproductive system to involve Rheotaxis– The phenomenon in which sperm swims against the flow of a liquid. The person who ends the course first wins the race, with tests from five to 20 minutes.

As you would expect, this chip is small, so the race will not be visible with the eye. Instead, it is viewed via a microscope and then sent to a large screen for the crowd of Potential 3,700 guests In the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles – Where Tickets start at $ 20 with a UCLA or USC student discount – as well as live stream on the Sperm -racing website.

In the first instance, sperm racing lofts will be offered via polymarket. In the long term, the team is planning to create its own crypto-based gambling platform. Co-founder Nick Small told Decrypt That there have been conversations with a number of large crypto networks to build on the platform. As soon as sperm racing has its own platform, the team wants to broaden which outcomes viewers can gamble, beyond those who will win each race.

Tristan Wilcher from the University of southern California will take place on Friday, April 25, will compete against ASHER TOEGER of the University of California, Los Angeles in a best-of-three sperm raced match-the first of its kind. Moreover, there will be a “surprise trail”, Small said Decrypt.

It certainly sounds scandalous on the surface, but those involved insist that this project is more than on the eye.

“If you take the time to read the manifesto and talk to the founders, you immediately start to understand that this team is incredibly early for a growing trend in human behavior, and an increasing interest in the treatment of human health as a form of competition,” ” Jim Parillogeneral partner at Figment Capitaltold one of the investors of sperm racing Decrypt.

Sperm -speed boost?

The makers of sperm racing believe that there is a connection between healthy sperm and fast sperm. As a result, the new sport is invoiced as a test area for how a competitor can improve his sperm -health, probably due to positive changes in their physical health – as supported by a plethora by study.

Although some changes are clear – such as not smoking and increasing physical activity– Other studies have shown that things like the Mediterranean diet Can affect how sperm behaves.

As such, sperm racing could become the new limit of experiments for sperm speed. The project is intended to bring the attention of how competitors have prepared for the races, already hinting in a promotional video – that seemed to show Asher that Asher eat raw meat, present Tristian supplements and both train.

Parillo, whose Figment Capital has contributed to the $ 1.5 million financing round racing, also sees the concept expanding to other sports – and can also influence the gun channels.

“Imagine a world where Mike Tyson and Jake Paul had raced their sperm for their boxing match,” Parillo added. “If they had raced with their sperm in advance and Jake came at the top, you think it would have changed the chances of the fight? What if Iron Mike won?”

It is worth noting that there are many other factors outside the control that can influence the racing speed of a sperm, with genetics Play a major role in all this.

But sperm racing is planning to show what can be done to improve the health and speed of the sperm, the wave of the lifespan of the lifetime targeted by Biohacker Bryan Johnson– what reports already have about his own nightly erections Affected prediction markets bet.

“Johnson has been a champion of the Longevity Movement,” Parillo finished. “Everyone follows their sleep, their steps and their heartbeat 24/7 with digital devices. It’s just a matter of time before people start to compete at biological level.”

Published by Andrew Hayward

Note of the editors: After publication, this story was updated to note that sperm racing is planning to use polymarket for bets instead of Sweep.GG, as the team said earlier.