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Sui's Big Pokémon Rumor

Pokémon HOME’s new medals might be Sui-powered NFTs—is the world’s biggest franchise opening an onchain gateway?
Sui's Big Pokémon Rumor
William M. Peaster William M. Peaster
Apr 26, 2025 • 2 min read
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Pokémon HOME—the cloud hub that lets players store, move, and trade their Pokémon across games—just dropped an interesting surprise.

That's because Pokémon HOME’s newest mobile update added “medals," i.e. collectible digital souvenirs you earn by visiting real-world spots or participating in special events.

Nintendo calls them tradable, giftable items, but never once says “NFTs.” Yet currently in crypto there is tremendous speculation that these medals are, in fact, NFTs under the hood.

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time.

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