Studio 54 is proud to announce our partnership with ZkCandy to power the next chapter of Argentinos Juniors Play—with the full stack now integrated so that Argentinos’ digital assets are issued and run on ZkCandy.

Over the past weeks, our teams completed the end-to-end integration required to bring a club-scale fan world onchain without sacrificing usability. This means the collectibles layer, fan identity, rewards, and future experiences can operate with real product standards: verifiable ownership, transparent provenance, and infrastructure that can handle matchday spikes and major drops.

Why ZkCandy: ZkCandy is built with a privacy-first mindset and modern cryptography (zero-knowledge primitives) designed for high-frequency consumer experiences. For Argentinos Juniors Play, that translates into a smoother, lower-friction fan journey—while still keeping interactions auditable onchain and designed to scale with community growth.

Why Argentinos Juniors: Argentinos is more than a club—it’s a factory of football identity. It’s also where the legend began: Diego Maradona’s origin story is inseparable from Argentinos Juniors. That history matters, and it’s exactly why our next step is bigger than “just NFTs.”

As part of this rollout, we’re also preparing the new Pelusas DAO collection, built around the Maradona legacy and IP framework we’ve been developing through Pelusas—bridging culture, community governance, and onchain ownership into a single fan-driven ecosystem.

The goal is simple: give Argentinos supporters a digital world that feels official, premium, and worthy of the story they carry—while unlocking a new standard for how football heritage can live, evolve, and be shared onchain.