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Investing and collecting alternative assets is what I do 😎💙

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Panini Blockchain will open its Ethereum bridge to its customers on Monday, March 30! The Bridge allows users to move their digital collectible cards from their Panini wallets to self-custody wallets. The cards can then be stored in their wallet and bought or sold on @OpenSea. Read more here: bit.ly/4bLHIOl #PaniniBlockchain

Congrats @renaissxyz on the explosive growth, surpassing $5,000,000 in total platform volume 👏 Note: This post is for informational purposes only and not financial advice. DYOR. x.com/renaissxyz/sta…

Physical hobby of sports/trading cards has been going strong. Covid highest month is $208M. Already got surpassed in the second month of last 24 months. There have been 10 all time high month volumes in this period. The data is available on @CardLadder. Cannot be more bullish. Strong and consistent. #whodoyoucollect #sportscard

We at @renaissxyz are pioneering the development of agent-accessible RWA infrastructure for collectibles. When physical assets meet criteria such as verifiable 3rd party custody, transparent and traceable on-chain status, and well-defined settlement processes, AI agents will actively participate in transactions. Renaiss is leading this innovation exclusively on @BNBCHAIN. #BNB

The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

@jedimooch @Nintendo @Pokemon @Museum_Nintendo I couldn’t agree more 😎

Let's get this into the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and cement it as the "Mona Lisa" of the Pokémon Franchise. @Nintendo @Pokemon @Museum_Nintendo

@Scaramucci A pricey asset but so many ways to monetize…genius is in the execution

Genius. Do your homework. I have.

🚨 BREAKING: NEW RECORD $$$ FOR A TRADING CARD 🚨 The Most Expensive Trading Card EVER! Final Sale Price on the @LoganPaul Pikachu Illustrator PSA GEM MT 10: $16,492,000 Email Sell@Goldin.com to consign your Collectibles to one of our upcoming Auctions! 🙌

[Product Info] Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz will be joining the 1st anniversary booster pack, Freedom Ascension [GD05]! Wing Gundam Zero (EW) will be joining as a white card. ▽Release 7/24(Fri.) ▽Product Info gundam-gcg.com/en/products/gd… #GCG #GundamCardGame

Found out that Upper Deck worked with Bandai to create this Gundam Wing set back in 2000. It has got to be one of the first sets ever produced in English and sold in the US. Very few of these acetate inserts have been graded. This is the type of cards I like discovering 😎

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@Topps Ronald Acuna Jr.

Show us a card of a player you'll NEVER stop believing in...

📊 Total Volume Surpassed $3,000,000 Achieved in just 3 months since Renaiss went live. From our first pack launch to Infinite Gacha, this growth was driven by collectors and a community that believed from day one. This is more than a number, it’s a milestone for RWA on @BNBCHAIN , proving that web3 infrastructure for collectibles + real-world TCG can scale together.

The most coveted card on the planet 🌍⚡ The @LoganPaul World-Record PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator is on display at @Collect_A_Con in Atlanta TODAY ONLY! See this iconic piece headline our Pokémon & TCG Auction now: bit.ly/4kGSpVf

@Teazelbtc 40-50k would be nice

@ArtKaroon9 Hmmmmm, so at what mark will you buy

Another sucker’s rally before buyers get dumped on again…I’ll just wait patiently until the dusk settles…😎

The Wing Gundam Alt Art from Gundam Card Game Beta Edition… …is the BGS Black Label of this card in English, the biggest chase of the entire Gundam CG so far?

🌃Hong Kong Explorer SBT Catch @Plus_Ultra_715 the CEO of Renaiss, during Consensus Hong Kong 🌟 @consensus_hk Spot him. Tap him. Handshaked him. (Yes… whatever works 😏) Unlock the SBT 🏅