The artwork in the new #MegaShine set is absolutely unbelievable ✨
We just pushed a update, all Mega Shine cards are now integrated and glowing in the PGL app.
What is your ultimate chase card from this set?
The hardest part of building next-gen consumer apps isn't the tech, it’s making the complex feel completely effortless.
The Challenge: Removing every ounce of friction so the experience feels like magic, not mechanics.
The Opportunity: Bridging a massive mainstream audience with a truly seamless digital economy.
We are building PGL to be that bridge 🛠️
We just built a way to make your trade offers way more attractive.
You can now attach Aura points directly to your trade requests to sweeten the deal for hard-to-find cards.
The 2-step system is simple:
🟠 The Offer:
Attach a bounty (Pending in orange). No upfront lock!
🟡 The Lock:
A partner accepts your trade (Locked in gold).
✅ The Release:
Complete the trade to send the Aura, or cancel for a full refund.
Creating leverage for the grinders so you can finish those meta decks faster.
Trading in Pokémon TCG Pocket is broken.
Everyone knows it. Nobody's fixed it.
Until now.
How the old way works:
❌ Scroll through someone's binder
❌ Send a DM: "Hey, want to trade?"
❌ Wait hours
❌ "Sorry, I don't need that card"
❌ Repeat 50 times
How PGL works:
✅ Input your Haves and Wants
✅ The algorithm finds players with an exact match
✅ Swipe right
✅ "IT'S A MATCH" — trade completed in seconds
No rejections. No wasted DMs. No guesswork. The system only shows you trades that will actually happen.
This is the difference between building a trading platform and building a trading engine.
🔨 Building the infrastructure TCG Pocket deserves.
PGL Duels League - the competitive engine that runs every single day inside our Discord.
How it works:
⚔️ Up to 5 Best-of-3 matches per day. Enough to grind, not enough to burn out
🎯 Challenge anyone with a single command /challenge, accept, report
🔁 Can't rematch the same opponent more than once per week, forces you to face the whole field
📊 Points tracked on a live leaderboard
This isn't casual play. This is structured, daily competition with real stakes and real rankings.
Think you're good at Pokémon TCG Pocket?
Prove it. Every day. Against everyone.
PGL Dev Update: introducing Aura ✨
We built a native reward system directly into the PGL App. The idea is simple: reward you for doing what you already love, trading, collecting, competing.
How you earn Aura:
✦ Claim 50 free Aura every 24 hours from the top bar
✦ Complete trades
✦ Add your first 10 cards to your binder
✦ Refer friends
Everything tracked. Fully transparent.
How you spend it - the Aura Store:
✦ Single Card Hunt Boost (200 Aura)
Pushes your offer to the top of the queue for 6 hours. Find your match faster.
✦ Collection Boost (800 Aura)
Gives your entire binder priority visibility for a full 24 hours. Your edge if you're trading a lot.
✦ High-Roller Ticket (1k Aura)
Didn't qualify for a special high-stakes tournament? Your daily activity in the app can earn you a ticket straight in.
We put effort to create actual tools that make your trading and competitive experience better.
Full walkthrough in the video 👇
More coming 🙌
Another big piece of the PGL app - done. 🔨
Just finished the full admin panel.
Everything we need to run a platform at scale:
📊 Analytics dashboard: charts, growth data, top traders, all live
👥 User management: search, filter, moderate in seconds
⭐ Aura points: bulk rewards + individual ledgers ready
🔒 Audit trail, notifications, conversation moderation, all wired up
When we scale and players hit the app, this is what keeps everything running smooth behind the scenes.
Next up: Aura points go live for players.
Watch the full walkthrough 👇
An open letter to every competitive Pokémon TCG Pocket player.
At Pokémon EUIC in London, Chris Brown, Pokémon's Director of Global Esports & Events, was asked about the future of competitive TCG Pocket.
His answer:
"With Pocket, what feels great for us right now is the Side Events, a casual way for people to meet up. There are no plans for it to be a main title."
No competitive scene. No ranked system. No esports. Just "a casual way for people to meet up."
Let that sit for a moment.
This is a game with 150M+ downloads. $1.3B+ in revenue. 2 billion battles played. The most successful mobile TCG launch in history. And the official position is: keep it casual.
Meanwhile, last weekend, 1,172 players from 45+ countries competed in a PGL tournament for $1,500 in prizes. 3,338 matches played in 2 days.
Nobody asked permission. Nobody waited for an official circuit.
The players decided this game deserved a competitive scene. So they built one.
PGL has been running tournaments for over a year. Thousands of matches. A community of players who take this game seriously, because someone should.
Now we're building the app. The full infrastructure that TCG Pocket was always missing.
Nintendo built the game. We're building the sport.
This isn't a protest. This is just reality, the best players in the world needed a home, and the people who made the game decided not to build one.
So we did.
If you've ever felt like the competitive side of this game was being ignored, you're not wrong. And you're not alone.
Welcome to PGL.
The league that was never supposed to exist, built by the players who refused to stop competing.
🏆 @pglfun
The PGL app is getting closer 🔨
Between running tournaments and building the full infrastructure on Discord, the app doesn't stop moving too.
Here's what just landed:
🔐 Login & registration: fully working
📧 Sign up with Google or Email
🎮 Pokémon-inspired custom usernames generated for every new player + change anytime in your profile
Currently working on admin panel & analytics dashboard, planning trust scores and points for activity. More updates soon.
Watch the registration flow below 👇
The PGL 30th Anniversary Tournament is OVER 🏆
1,400+ signups. 1,172 competitors.
3,338 matches. $1,500 in prizes.
2 days. 1 champion.
🥇 CreamyLotion
🥈 kana41
🥉 Eisenoutthere
Watch the final battle below 👇🔥
The staff worked nonstop. The Pokémon TCG Pocket community showed up like never before. This is the biggest tournament in PGL history, and it delivered.
Thank you to every player who trusted us with their time. Thank you to the judges who held it together. This community is the reason PGL exists.
GG to everyone who competed 🏆
It's just the beginning.
A new tournament is coming, and the Duels League has just started a new round in Discord🔥
3,338 matches. 1 Goal. 🏆
Day 1 of the 30th Pokémon Anniversary Tournament is officially in the books, and the sheer scale of the competition was mind-blowing.
Huge shoutout to EzXarT, the absolute end boss and the only player to walk away with 25 points! 🔥
Massive respect to all the participants who battled it out, our incredible judges, and the whole team working behind the scenes to keep a 3,000+ match day running smoothly.
Next stop today: Top Cut! 🏁
3am. The duel-request channel is still going.
"Lfg." "Lets go?" "Ping me if u wanna battle."
"Still looking?" "Play?"
This is what a real gaming community looks like.
Not bots. Not clout chasers.
Pokémon TCG Pocket players looking for duels in the middle of the night for the love of the game.
2,760 members. Up to 5 duels a day per player.
Private match rooms. Live rankings.
Cash prizes every week.
These are passionate players, and we're building the infrastructure to take their competitive scene to the next level.
You can't fake this. 12 months of culture.
Join the grind 🔥
Crypto is unfortunately headed down a very very rough path.
The opportunity is in learning how to build with A.I.
The problem? The window for making LIFE CHANGING money with A.I. is incredibly limited.
6-18 months & EVERYONE will be using agents to build.
Sunday $PGL dev update 🔨
Building the ultimate Layer 2 app for Pokémon TCG Pocket in public for the @Pumpfun hackathon.
What we shipped today:
✅ 3-click trading: see a card, offer yours, send.
✅ Trade requests with card previews straight in DMs
✅ Public profiles: Trust Score + cards lists on click
✅ UX cleanup: instant card adding, Friend IDs
✅ Global notifications: badges, alerts, auto-sorted conversations
From MVP to production-grade product.
Documenting every step.
Watch today's progress below and stay tuned for the next update.
We stopped talking about what we're going to build.
Here's what we already built.
First look at the PGL App 👇
Card browsing. Live trade feed.
Swipe-to-Trade matching. Messaging.
Collection management. Profile system.
All functional. All in the video.
Pokémon TCG Pocket has 150M+ installs and zero dedicated trading infrastructure. No competitive identity. No unified marketplace. That's a gap big enough to drive a truck through, so we're building the truck.
This is a daily build. Every day we ship, every day we show you what's new.
Building live for the @pumpfun hackathon.
The app is step one. The ecosystem is the play.
🔨 Follow for daily updates.