Tokenized cards are having a moment. Over the decade, collectible cards have seen huge success becoming a very popular product among fans, collectors and has become a cultural thing. eBay has captured the most mind share and has become a go to terminal for collecting, trading and providing vaulting services for these cards, one of the reasons behind its massive growth over the years. Existing rails aren't the best solution and crypto does improve them in meaningful ways.

I'm a big sports guy and until I discovered courtyard, collecting graded cards wasn't even a thing for me as it was not very popular where I'm from, which made it very difficult and expensive to get my hands on these cards. Enter courtyard - a marketplace for tokenized cards offering pokemon, football, baseball, nba, comic books and much more. One of the key reasons collectible cards became such a huge thing early on is because people like to speculate. You walk in a store, buy a $10 pack and can end up pulling a card worth thousands of dollars and courtyard brings that same joy and speculation onchain by offering many services.

Courtyard offers a variety of packs, ranging from $25 to $2500, depending on the rarity and dollar value of the cards inside.

How does it work?

You deposit money via credit card/wallet. You buy a pack from the vending machine, which randomly picks a pack that contains only one graded card. For example, the Pokémon Legends pack costs $2500 per pack (most expensive pack to offer). The vending machine also has an odds table that shows the probability of pulling a card across different price ranges. You can pull a card worth anywhere between $1250-$20,000. Even in the worst case scenario you lose 50% of your capital.

How crypto does improve collectible cards in meaningful ways?

• All collectible cards are NFTs that give you instant ownership and are instantly verified onchain

• Option to redeem your tokenized cards for their physical cards by burning the NFT

• Instant buyback offer, courtyard offers you 90% of the market value of the card you just pulled instantly after opening a pack, liquidity is the biggest pain point in traditional rails for many users and yes, crypto solves that

• Marketplace to buy and sell collectible cards (instant liquidity and ownership)

• Your tokenized cards are fully composable (sell directly on opensea or any other onchain marketplace)

• Borrow against your cards when those services exist

• Clear education of what card you are holding, it's worth and history of sale

IMO, Courtyard is easily one of the strongest crypto consumer products. It has real users onchain and for many, has become their very first blockchain experience. We need more products that takes the existing markets and build better solution and offer services that would have not existed before. I had a lot of fun ripping packs and becoming a collector and I plan to keep collecting for a long time.

Physical onchain collectibles are becoming a great consumer experience. The first iteration is collectible cards, easily expanding to coins, sneakers, collab merch, rare magazines, essentially anything with a market, even rare cars.

Courtyard by Nicolas and Paulin.

Tokenized cards are having a moment. Over the decade, collectible cards have seen huge success becoming a very popular product among fans, collectors and has become a cultural thing. eBay has captured the most mind share and has become a go to terminal for collecting, trading and providing vaulting services for these cards, one of the reasons behind its massive growth over the years. Existing rails aren't the best solution and crypto does improve them in meaningful ways.

I'm a big sports guy and until I discovered courtyard, collecting graded cards wasn't even a thing for me as it was not very popular where I'm from, which made it very difficult and expensive to get my hands on these cards. Enter courtyard - a marketplace for tokenized cards offering pokemon, football, baseball, nba, comic books and much more. One of the key reasons collectible cards became such a huge thing early on is because people like to speculate. You walk in a store, buy a $10 pack and can end up pulling a card worth thousands of dollars and courtyard brings that same joy and speculation onchain by offering many services.

Courtyard offers a variety of packs, ranging from $25 to $2500, depending on the rarity and dollar value of the cards inside.

How does it work?

You deposit money via credit card/wallet. You buy a pack from the vending machine, which randomly picks a pack that contains only one graded card. For example, the Pokémon Legends pack costs $2500 per pack (most expensive pack to offer). The vending machine also has an odds table that shows the probability of pulling a card across different price ranges. You can pull a card worth anywhere between $1250-$20,000. Even in the worst case scenario you lose 50% of your capital.

How crypto does improve collectible cards in meaningful ways?

• All collectible cards are NFTs that give you instant ownership and are instantly verified onchain

• Option to redeem your tokenized cards for their physical cards by burning the NFT

• Instant buyback offer, courtyard offers you 90% of the market value of the card you just pulled instantly after opening a pack, liquidity is the biggest pain point in traditional rails for many users and yes, crypto solves that

• Marketplace to buy and sell collectible cards (instant liquidity and ownership)

• Your tokenized cards are fully composable (sell directly on opensea or any other onchain marketplace)

• Borrow against your cards when those services exist

• Clear education of what card you are holding, it's worth and history of sale

IMO, Courtyard is easily one of the strongest crypto consumer products. It has real users onchain and for many, has become their very first blockchain experience. We need more products that takes the existing markets and build better solution and offer services that would have not existed before. I had a lot of fun ripping packs and becoming a collector and I plan to keep collecting for a long time.

Physical onchain collectibles are becoming a great consumer experience. The first iteration is collectible cards, easily expanding to coins, sneakers, collab merch, rare magazines, essentially anything with a market, even rare cars.

Courtyard by Nicolas and Paulin.