July was one of those months where it felt like Collector Crypt started spilling out into the real world.

We were at Fanatics Fest. We were at San Diego Comic-Con. We were buying cards with crypto, helping vendors set up wallets, getting people to rip packs in the middle of packed convention floors, and filming a ridiculous amount of content along the way.

The biggest takeaway?

People get it pretty fast when there are actual cards involved.

At Fanatics Fest, we onboarded three vendors, picked up a few thousand dollars worth of inventory, and paid sellers directly in USDC.

We also traded a vendor a $50 Collector Crypt pack for a $50 physical card, which helps normalize the concept of a digital trade, especially when you capture it on camera.

At Comic-Con, we spent more time with collectors, cosplayers, and people seeing Collector Crypt for the first time. We had people ripping packs, reacting to pulls, and getting their prizes sent out after the fact.

We linked up with the team from Comicbook.com and filmed some Gacha pulls while Todd McFarlane signed our Spawn comic book! We also filmed as much as we possibly could around the convention such as at the Konami Yu-Gi-Oh! booth (more on that soon.)

Tuom and Dakota went on a side-quest to go hunting for One Piece grails at Comic-Con.

They found a PSA 10 Boa Hancock from OP-09 and started talking with the vendor about accepting crypto payments. He was pretty set on only taking Bitcoin at first, but after a little back and forth, we got him comfortable taking SOL instead.

We walked away with the Boa grail. He walked away with $1,300 in SOL. Pretty good trade.

We’ve teamed up with Solana Mobile for Seeker Summer.

Use code CARDS20 for 20% off a new Solana Seeker phone, and the wallet that buys the phone will receive a free $50 Collector Crypt pack to rip.

Pretty good deal.

Seeker is exactly the kind of platform we want Collector Crypt living on. Packs, collections, offers, trades, and shipping should all feel natural on mobile, and we are working toward bringing Collector Crypt to the Seeker ecosystem soon.

Grab a Seeker with CARDS20, and we will send you a pack to start ripping.

12 New Sports Gachas

We added 12 new Sports Gacha Machines across football, basketball, baseball, and soccer, with $50, $100, and $250 machines for each sport.

Soccer hit at the perfect time with the World Cup wrapping up and Spain taking the crown. There are plenty of Lamine Yamal cards in there, plus Mbappé, Haaland, Messi, Ronaldo, Pulisic, and more … Seriously, wait until you see the Erling Haaland card we’re about to add.

One Piece Got a Serious Upgrade

We also launched the $1,000 One Piece Gacha Machine.

One Piece has been one of the most fun categories on the platform, so we gave it a machine with a little more firepower.

We’ve loaded this machine with hard-to-find grails from your favorite Straw Hat Crew members.

And Then There Was Celestial…

Lastly, the $5,000 Celestial Machine went live over the weekend.

It is the biggest machine we have ever launched, filled with the kind of inventory that makes even the most experienced collectors stop scrolling.

Where else are you going to find a 2011 PSA10 Call of Legends Shiny Lugia with an insured value of $250,000?

Stay Tuned for August

New events. New vendors. New collectors. New machines. New partners.

A lot of packs ripped in places where people probably did not expect to see onchain collectibles.

We are still early enough that showing someone Collector Crypt in person feels a little insane at first. But then they open a pack and it just clicks.

Follow along, try out the new machines, and get ready to watch Collector Crypt go mainstream.