Pokémon Cards to Soon Have Their Polymarket Moment?

Collectibles are back in the limelight, and they’re not just making noise, they’re breaking records.

Just over the past week, the market raked in its highest-ever weekly revenue, clocking in over $4.2 million.

The surge highlights how demand is heating up yet again, with momentum building at a pace that’s hard to ignore.

Like we chalked out in a recent thread, emerging projects from this sector include Collector Crypt, Courtyard, Huch, Phygitals, and Rip.fun.

Data points out that Courtyard is now making over $100 million annually on Pokémon cards alone.

Collector Crypt’s annualized revenue figure is currently hovering around $37.5 million. That reflects a 106% jump over the past month.

Phygitals, on the other hand, has scaled its revenue 10x over the past month ($22.3 million annualized).

Will we see Pokémon ETFs?

Bitwise research analyst Danny Nelson recently asserted,

“Pokémon and other TCGs [trading card games] are about to have their ‘Polymarket moment.”

Drawing parallels with Polymarket, he added,

“I expect the Pokémon boom will be sticky - one of those moments where an ‘only in crypto’ innovation breaks into the mainstream. Kinda like what Polymarket did for prediction markets.”

Even with its scale and retail demand, the market by and large remains informal. At the minute, the market doesn’t have Pokémon  ETFs or dedicated funds yet, but you can expect tables to turn soon. Nelson added,

“You probably won’t for a while. But maybe not as long as you’d think.”