Onchain TCG Gold Rush
Metaversal Weekly Recap: Onchain Trading Cards Gold Rush while NFT Mania continues with Ether Rocks.
Courtyard, the trading card platform turning collectibles into NFTs, announced a $30M Series A round this week led by Forerunner Ventures, with prominent “Web2” VCs like NEA and Y Combinator joining in, among others.
The raise comes during a breakout stretch for onchain trading card packs — especially Pokémon cards (which some call “RWAs”) on Solana — which have generated $6.4M+ in revenue and over $95M in total volume so far. According to a Dune dashboard by @zkayape, a platform called Collector Crypt leads the way with $1.2M/month in revenue mostly driven by “gacha” mechanics (randomized rewards), while newer names like TCG Emporium and Phygitals are already pulling six figures in volume. One pack even revealed a $11.3K Mario Pikachu card.
With tokenized TCGs gaining clear PMF — solving fraud, fees, and logistics — Courtyard's new funding is likely to bring more heat to this growing sector of alternative investments.
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David Christopher
David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.
