September's biggest onchain TCG moment: two 1st Edition Base Set Charizards, both PSA 10, sold five hours apart on Sep 23.
@Collector_Crypt: $809K
@Beezie: $1.00M
24 copies of this card are tokenized across the venues we track. 5 are PSA 10.
Listed at $1,000,000 at 03:25 UTC, filled at 13:18 UTC.
Three 1st Edition Base Set Charizards are on-chain across the venues we track.
This is the only PSA 10.
Largest resale we have recorded. Congrats @Beezie.
https://t.co/QM1ybiChwZ
WORLD RECORD SALE.
A PSA 10 1st Edition Base Set Charizard just sold for $1,000,000.
The largest known onchain TCG sale ever.
A new milestone for collectibles. On Beezie.
Tokenized collectibles market, week ending Sep 13:
Market cap $62.8M, down 0.4% on the week
Gacha and resale volume $46.0M, up 32.0%
Largest resale we track: $17.6K, seller-received
Every figure is on the report page:
https://t.co/2BFbOAu1VI
Resale volume by IP, week over week:
▼ Pokémon $172K, −46.1%
▼ One Piece $22.3K, −43.6%
▲ Baseball $2.4K, +103.3% (tiny base)
A quiet resale week under a loud gacha one.
The week's largest resale, and why it cost what it did.
2002 Legendary Collection Gastly Reverse Foil PSA 10. Sold on @Collector_Crypt Sep 6 for 17,000 USDC.
A common Gastly. PSA has graded 706 of them, 18 are a 10.
That is a 2.5% gem rate, and this is one of the 18.
That foil is fragile. It scratches, silvers and whitens, so most copies grade 7 to 9. A 10 is the exception, which is why commons clear at five figures.
Across the 5 platforms we track, 318 Legendary Collection cards are on-chain. 24 are PSA 10 reverse foils.
Tokenized card market, week ending Sep 6:
- Market cap $63.1M, down 0.6% on the week
- Gacha and resale volume $34.9M, down 18.1%
- Largest resale we track: $16.7K, seller-received
Every figure is on the report page:
https://t.co/2BFbOAu1VI
On Varible, a sale only counts here once it has settled, either on-chain or through a platform's own API.
Listings are claims. Trades are facts.
And where a feed is incomplete, we print a dash instead of a number.
27 sources, and when each one last actually succeeded:
https://t.co/JXIE3GMJTy
The Varible Index tracks a constant basket. Same cards, same grades, week to week. So when it moves, that's price moving, not the mix changing.
V-MKT today: 238.6
+12.1% this week
+18.6% over 30 days
+138.6% since inception, Jan 18
Chart, CSV and the full method: https://t.co/8nfgi0N3J1
The tokenized trading-card market, right now:
$63.2M - market cap
141,000 - cards indexed
45,007 - holders
5 - platforms
Every number on the site links to the page that computes it. Check the full site at:
https://t.co/V7ivvVW9wt
Tuesday Trends 📈: the tokenized card market is climbing out of its summer drawdown.
This week on the V-MKT index:
- Index +25.8% week over week
- Market cap $66.0M, +4.5%
- Volume cooled −28.5%, prices rising on thinning volume after a record summer
Under the hood, the caps rotated: Pokémon +5.9% to $52.9M, and the quiet leader was Sealed Wax, +8.1% — the only category outrunning the market's giant.
90 days of index vs BTC and the S&P below.
Check out how your favourite IPs are doing here → https://t.co/8nfgi0N3J1
Thanks to @UltraWeb3Fest for having us on stage to talk about the rise of onchain trading cards and collectibles.
If you’re curious where this market is headed, check out Varible. We’re indexing the entire tokenized collectibles ecosystem and we’re just getting started.
Check it out here: https://t.co/p0k6veOlst
Pokémon is outperforming traditional markets.
Over the past six months:
Bitcoin index: -24.1%
S&P 500 index: +7.1%
V-Pokémon index: +65.7%
While major assets struggled to generate returns, the Pokémon market continued to climb.
Collectibles are becoming an asset class that can no longer be ignored.