Report #1 · published Oct 29, 2026

The tokenized Pokémon card market, October 2026

Every completed sale on the Collector Crypt marketplace from October 5 to 28, read directly from the Solana blockchain — 24 days, and the first period we have complete data for.

These figures come from automatically reading blockchain transactions and automatically matching slabs to cards. Individual prices, matches or totals can contain mistakes. This report is for information only and is not financial advice.

These are completed sales, not listings: a buyer paid USDC and a tokenized slab changed hands. Each one is checked against the marketplace's 2% fee before it is counted, so a price we could not verify is left out rather than guessed. 7,394 of the sales — 41% — we matched to a specific Pokémon card and grade in our catalogue; those carry $1.89M, 55% of the money, at a median of $36. The rest are other trading card games, sports cards, and Pokémon slabs we have not matched yet.

Three weeks of growing volume

Volume rose 38% from the first full week to the third, while the number of sales rose 7%: the growth came from more expensive cards changing hands, not from more trades. Single high-value sales move a weekly total a long way at this size, so read the trend as direction, not precision. Two in three sales were bought at the listed price (12,254); the other third were offers that a seller accepted (5,765).

A few wallets do most of the buying

955 wallets bought and 2,467 sold — more than two sellers for every buyer. The ten most active buyers made 64% of all purchases and 58% of the volume. One wallet alone (2zzC…tF3j) bought 5,316 cards, 29.5% of every sale on the marketplace. It bought on all 24 days, mostly at the listed price, at a median of $25.50 — and did not sell a single card on the marketplace in the period. That looks like a business buying stock rather than a collector: a marketplace or platform, a dealer, or an automated buyer. We have not confirmed who runs it. At the other end, 446 wallets bought exactly once.

Pokémon: PSA dominates, and the money is in vintage

Among the 7,394 matched Pokémon sales:

PSA 8 and 7 slabs sell for more than PSA 9s at the median because they are mostly older cards, which are graded lower and are worth more.

The market runs on two tracks: three in four Pokémon sales are under $100, but 2% of sales — the ones above $2,000 — carry more than half of the money. The same split shows by era:

Modern cards are where the trading happens — 61% of Pokémon sales are from 2020 or later — while cards from before 2011 carry 64% of the value.

What traded most

By Pokémon, Pikachu changed hands most often (307 sales), ahead of Charizard (294), Gengar (201), Eevee (196) and Mew (122). Charizard carried $160k in volume. The single most-traded card was Mega Gengar ex from Phantasmal Flames: 95 sales at a median of $22.

The biggest sales — and how they compare with eBay

Every sale below really happened on-chain. But one sale between two wallets is not a market price, so where our eBay sold-price data has a reliable figure for the same card and grade we put the two side by side. For older sets printed as both 1st Edition and Unlimited under the same number, eBay sales cannot be told apart reliably, so we make no comparison there.

Aquapolis Lugia is the clearest signal: three sales in two weeks between $21,000 and $32,000, matching what the same card fetches on eBay. At the other end, 28 matched sales were priced far above anything the card trades for — the largest a Garchomp C LV.X PSA 10 at $60,612, a card whose PSA 9s sell for about $660 on eBay. Those 28 add $163k to the totals above. They are real transfers, but we leave them out of price comparisons on PokéPrice.

What we left out

How we counted

Source. The Collector Crypt marketplace program on Solana, read through Helius. A sale is a successful transaction that pays the marketplace fee into its treasury; its price is what the seller received plus that fee, and it is only counted when the fee matches 2% of that price. Prices are in USDC, treated as US dollars. Times are UTC.

Matching. Each slab is matched to a card in our catalogue from its title, set, number, year and grade. Sales we could not match — other games, sports cards, Japanese and other non-English Pokémon cards, ambiguous titles — are counted in the totals but not in the Pokémon sections.

Filters. Wash trades are flagged when the same pair of wallets trades the same card and grade again within 12 hours to 7 days, when a card returns to its seller within 30 days, or when buyer and seller are the same wallet. eBay comparisons use sold prices from Silph Co Analytics.

Limits. This covers Collector Crypt only — not Courtyard or other platforms — and 24 days of data. Our collection started on October 13 and was backfilled to October 4, so later reports will compare whole months. Re-running these numbers later can give slightly different results as matching improves. Card values and eBay comparisons come from third-party sources and can themselves be wrong or out of date. If you spot a mistake, tell us and we will correct it.