Mr. 🧊 barrage
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Three dates define the origin story of vintage Pokemon cards. If you understand this, then you will understand where the real alpha is right now.
September 1996: 1996 Carddass Part 1 released, the first-ever Pokemon collectible cards (non-TCG). x.com/rarefinds/stat…
October 15, 1996: the November issue of CoroCoro Comic drops a two-card glossy insert featuring Pikachu and Jigglypuff, the first-ever Pokemon TCG cards, released simultaneously.
October 20, 1996: Japanese Base Set “No Rarity Symbol” released, the first print run of the first full Pokemon TCG set.
This may be one of the most important collectibles posts you read all year, because the middle date is where almost no one is looking. The two cards from October 15, 1996 are: (1) the 1996 CoroCoro Glossy Ivy Pikachu, Incorrect Illustrator; and (2) the 1996 CoroCoro Glossy Jigglypuff. They predate Japanese Base Set No Rarity by a full five days, which makes them the first Pokemon TCG cards to ever release. The good news, for now at least, is that there is still time to get them.
This year we’ve seen No Rarity Symbol cards skyrocket, with collectors finally respecting those cards for what they are: the true first print run of the original Japanese Base Set. x.com/rarefinds/stat… I have talked about the value of No Rarity Symbol cards for years, and now we have large accounts like @LoganPaul finally talking about them. x.com/thirdmetax/sta…
It’s only a matter of time before the attention turns to the two first-ever Pokemon TCG cards. A few critical warnings about the October 15, 1996 cards:
1.You do NOT want the 1996 “non-glossy” versions of these cards.
2.You do NOT want reprinted versions from 1999 or any year other than 1996.
3.For the Pikachu, you specifically want the glossy version with the illustrator error, where Ken Sugimori is mistakenly credited instead of the actual artist, Keiji Kinebuchi. Confirm “Ken Sugimori” is printed on the card before you buy.
Golden@rarefinds
Pokemon collectibles alpha that very few people know about: The first ever official collectible Pokemon cards are the 1996 Bandai Carddass Part 1 Green Pokemon cards, which were released in Japan in September 1996. This was a month BEFORE the Japanese base set TCG cards were released in October 1996 (the “no rarity symbol” prints). The official naming is “Carddass 100 Pocket Monster Green Part 1.” There were multiple “Parts” of the Carddass cards, some which were released after the October 1996 TCG so you want to stick only with “Part 1” Carddass cards. I would avoid “Part 2” (which is commonly referred to as “Red Part 2”) because there is some confusion as to whether Part 2 was released before or after the TCG in October 1996. This is why I only buy the Green Part 1 to avoid any possible confusion over the timeline regarding Red Part 2. See the green coloring in the bottom portion of the Charizard card (included below) where “MONSTERS COLLECTION” is printed. That is what the Green Part 1 card should look like, and is the FIRST EVER OFFICIAL CHARIZARD COLLECTIBLE CARD RELEASED. Card No. 6 with a holo foil. My understanding is that most Pokemon experts have concluded that the Carddass cards that have the bottom in red were included in Part 2, not Part 1, even though there are a few outliers who believe some of the red bottom cards were included in Part 1. Again, I would avoid any possible confusion with the timeline by sticking with green bottom Part 1 cards only. Also, note that some of the Carddass Pokemon cards with green bottoms were not included with Part 1, such as Mewtwo I believe, so if you are considering buying other green bottom cards you should review reliable online guides that organize the Bandai Carddass Pokemon cards by the different Parts so you know which green bottom cards were included in Part 1. The 1996 Bandai Carddass Part 1 Green Pokemon cards were released before the Topsun (Top Seika) gum cards, even though there is a “1995” copyright printed on the Topsun cards. That copyright reflects the Pokemon property itself, not the Topsun trading cards that were released in 1997. There are very few listings of the Charizard Green Part 1 on eBay or other marketplaces. And very few people who already knew this timeline and what it could mean for the Part 1 cards once more people realize this alpha. Feel free to share this post with other collectors and Pokemon fans, I don’t gate-keep. (*While I have your attention, check out and follow the collectibles marketplace @slabcash which I have partnered with as an ambassador. Lots of great new initiatives coming soon that I will discuss in future posts.)
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@rarefinds @rarefinds Can you rank your top 10 vintage WOTC PSA 10 cards?
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The Pokemon alpha is taking profits on modern Pokemon collections, like 151 and Ascended Heroes, and putting some of that into vintage Pokemon card grails before it’s too late. I am seeing the top Pikachu and Gengar cards from Ascended Heroes in a PSA 10 sell for over $4000 this week. You can take those profits and buy some of the vintage Pokemon cards I have written about, like a PSA 10 of the Ancient Mew card in English from 2000, for the SAME amount. But that window of making this move into vintage Pokemon card grails is closing faster than you think. This is a really important inflection point for collectors.
Golden@rarefinds
Stop chasing the supposed “grails” of modern Pokemon sets and focus on the real grails from 20 or more years ago. Your future self will thank you. In the long run, would you rather have two Charizard SIR from Scarlet & Violet 151 or one Ancient Mew from 2000 in English and PSA 10? There is a correct answer here. 151 is a nice set (especially for modern Pokemon), but it’s not iconic like the Ancient Mew. (I reference the English version of Ancient Mew because the Japanese “Nintedo” error version I posted about a few weeks ago is now largely practically unobtainable for most.)
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🎴 .@CollectorCrypt, by the numbers
💯 YTD Gacha revenue/volume, $114m
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🧑🍳 What's cooking with the Gacha?
🏀 Sports is coming
🤝 First API partnerships being announced soon
🌐 Best-in-class card sourcing partnerships, increasing uptime
More to come.
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@OnchainLens What does make you say that the address is involved with ZKasino?
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A scammer gets a dose of karma.
The ZkCasino scammer, who scammed $40M+, closed its $ETH (20x) position on #Hyperliquid, faced a total loss of $27.1M.
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USDD 2.0 is about to launch with a 20% APY, fully subsidized by @trondao . All interest will be sent in advance to a transparent address. There’s no other reason—it’s simply because we have plenty of money. So, stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from.”
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Congratulations to @swing_xyz!
$750,000 sold out in just 3 minutes.
TGE in the next 1-2 days.
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Long time coming, the $SWING launch is finally here.
Expect it on @FjordFoundry next week. 🌚
Swing | Unified Cross-chain UX 🤖@swing_xyz
Major alpha dropping soon w/ @FjordFoundry 👀
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Make $SYN Great Again
The launch of Synapse Intent Networks and updates from Synapse DAO 🧵
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$TRC is coming to Fjord Foundry on Dec 9th at 12 pm UTC!
All-in-one trading, redefined.
Don’t miss it. 💪🔥
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6 sales on @FjordFoundry this week.
Reminder that it's still only at $6M marketcap.
Altseason brings with it a ton of new projects launching.
Fjord is still the best place for fair and easy launches, acessible to any and everyone.
Revenue numbers will go BOOM. Watch $FJO. 🌚
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MicroStrategy has acquired 27,200 BTC for ~$2.03 billion at ~$74,463 per #bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 7.3% QTD and 26.4% YTD. As of 11/10/2024, we hodl 279,420 $BTC acquired for ~$11.9 billion at ~$42,692 per bitcoin. $MSTR microstrategy.com/press/microstr…
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I recently spoke with a Tier 1 project that raised close to nine figures.
After wasting over a year of due diligence with Binance, they finally received a listing offer.
Binance asked for 15% of their total token supply.
Imagine paying $50–$100M just for a CEX listing.
Not only is this unaffordable for projects, but these tokens are also the biggest reason for bleeding charts.
Something has to change.
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Asset listings on Coinbase are free - drop us a note through our Asset Hub and we'll see if we can help
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And yes, DEXes are also a great option (which we support in our products).
Simon Dedic@sjdedic
I recently spoke with a Tier 1 project that raised close to nine figures. After wasting over a year of due diligence with Binance, they finally received a listing offer. Binance asked for 15% of their total token supply. Imagine paying $50–$100M just for a CEX listing. Not only is this unaffordable for projects, but these tokens are also the biggest reason for bleeding charts. Something has to change.
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Imagine being forced to stay in France. This is cruel and unusual punishment.
db@tier10k
*TELEGRAM'S DUROV PLACED ON SUPERVISED RELEASE, MUST NOT LEAVE FRANCE Source: DB | Coins: TON
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🔸SEED RAISE ANNOUNCEMENT🔸
henlo we are excited to announce origami has secured $1.5M in seed funding 🎉 🌱
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#PeckShieldAlert The #phishing address that drained 55.4M $DAI has transferred 338 $ETH (worth ~$100K) to 2 new addresses.
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