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👀 A message for @CandyDigital fans…👇 Tomorrow we open the “interim Candy.io” website for existing account holders only. We created this view-only site to enable our existing fans to see their collections and account balances right away rather than ask them to wait until May for the relaunched Candy.io.💪 Existing Candy.io fans will be able to login with their email address and password to see their assets. If there are questions or issues that require our attention, please email fan-help@candy.io for help‼️ We are thrilled to announce some “Easter Candy” to loyal fans by enabling them to convert their existing account balances into credits with a 100% bonus for use on the platform relaunched in May‼️💰🔥💪 For those fans who have already requested cash withdrawals, we will begin honoring those this week, once they reconfirm they want cash and not the 100% bonus credit. 👍 Turning to the future of Candy.io… 1) we hope to close the acquisition in the next week or so to establish the legal foundation of everything we are building together.🤞 2) we have tentatively selected a secure, user-friendly, inexpensive, royalty-compliant, mainstream blockchain for the millions of digital assets belonging to our fans so that self-custody and security will be real beginning as soon as May.🤫 3) 👀 we will also announce changes to the Candy.io “collectible economy” by May. The changes will sharply reduce any supply overhang of assets plus enhance the scarcity and utility of what fans own. ‘Up and to the right’ remains a key goal for our fans. 📈 4) we remain committed to a world of desirable, innovative treasures for our fans to collect with user-friendly auctions and markets plus a gamified fun platform on which to acquire them.🚀🚀🚀 Thanks again to our fans for their patience and loyalty to Candy.io!🙏🙏🙏🫡

Jordan and Kobe’s very first dual auto jersey/memorabilia 5/10 card just sold at @Heritage_Sport for $869k. 6/10 in B8.5+10 sold for half a mil in 2021 was impressive. 9/10 in B8+9 sold for half during covid boom still seemed reasonable (condition adjusted + sold too close together). This type of coffin cards were less favored/understood than high grade rookies of goats (commodity cards) that were pumped hardest (also fell hardest). I know an owner who didn’t panick when seeing the second sale, and thought it is $500k-1M card irregardless of condition and sale. Now P6+9 sold almost for $1M. Higher than footprints combined during covid peaks in 2021 and 2022. Coffin cards since bottom in 2023 have been more emphasized and focused this time around, deservingly so. Many lessons in this. Exclusivity + first ever + strong fundamentals/lineage (UD’s Game Jersey Auto line) in coffin cards > Collector mindset and long term thinking unfettered from short term up and down is important to growth and tend to win over time. #sportscard #whodoyoucollect #hobby

The #PaniniBlockchain is in an interesting place right now, here’s why: Last August and September we saw a massive explosion in the MP August - $7.1M (up from $2.9M in July) September - $15.5M We saw record sales and cards hitting the sales tracker at an unreal pace. ($200+) I call this time the “big boom” As someone who joined in 2023, it was UNREAL to see this type of growth. I actually thought it would take 5-10 years to get to that level… I was obviously very wrong Now most of this growth was driven by some new “whales” coming in and scooping up grails (see video for reference) This caused FOMO amongst OG collectors, OG whales, and even new collectors. We mostly saw a rise on the high end market which eventually trickled down to the mid tier and low tier eventually started climbing, until… October - February things cooled off with sales staying between $4.1M - $6.6M We saw a lot less MP activity in the last 3-4 months, especially on the high tier stuff. My theory is that a lot of the high end stuff went into the hands of long term holders or flippers that don’t want to sell for less This has made the high end market pretty stagnant compared to the “big boom” days This slow down made its way down to the mid and low tier cards where flippers ended up feeling it the most Pack market also took a hit as the 5-10X pack flips dried up with less favorable packs being sold by Panini in the last few months. Loss of NBA license and overpriced NFL packs might have been a factor as well. Just speculation. So we’ve been in this weird valley in the past few months - big whales already full and not really buying or selling, mid to low tier trending down, pack flips less profitable, and delays from Panini on the bridge (not cool) All leading to less collector confidence and uncertainty in the market (not good) BUT… something changed recently. Well 2 things: - PBC released a “roadmap” - PBC launched the bridge to ETH I think the first thing, the “roadmap”, is actually the more important piece. At least for the sake of this post (I’m getting to the point lol) In the past 30 days, more so in the past week or two, we’ve seen a dramatic rise on low tier cards. This is very different from the “big boom” - high end sales were the catalyst there It seems like the next growth phase will come from the bottom up - cheaper cards from cheap or desirable sets and collectors stacking blue chip players And eventually collectors move up the ladder to the mid tier as the price gap closes We’re seeing this right NOW. Maybe collectors don’t have much of a choice bc higher end stuff is being diamond handed. It’s very hard to pry some of these grails away from collectors. We’re seeing very solid offers across most sports (see video) but very little movement. It’s rare that one of the cards from the video actually sells and when it does it’s usually a collector accepting an offer so they can go buy another grail lol Nows a good time to keep an eye on #panininfts - if you’re involved, might be a good time to grab some stuff you’ve been waiting on buying Lowball offers arent really getting accepted so be smart or just BIN (NFA DYOR) Things might heat up as the World Cup rolls around and if Panini can deliver on a few pieces of their roadmap Also, we wait to see when some bigger IP like NBA and NFL can cross the bridge to ETH and we will see how the market reacts Also new #worldcup soccer packs should be coming soon! Hopefully #fifa #prizm Any questions about PBC feel free to DM #blockbyblock

👀 The light comes back first. Then the warmth. 🔥 Then the quiet stir of things we thought were gone. Nothing is ever truly lost — only waiting for its season to be reborn.🌹 @CandyDigital returns Monday. 🤫 The “interim Candy.io” won’t impress, but fans will be able to see what they own. After Monday we race to unlock it, give our fans self-custody,💪 many more treasures to own,🏆 and games to play chasing them. 🚀 Happy Spring‼️