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# Problem

Collectibles trading is broken across the board. Liquidity is scattered — eBay, Facebook groups, Discord servers, card shows, half a dozen marketplaces that don't talk to each other. Every transaction is a friction nightmare: ship the card, wait for delivery, hope it arrives safe, trust a stranger to hold up their end. There's no escrow, no instant settlement, and no single place to manage both your physical and digital cards.<br>

If you want to know what your collection is worth, you're manually checking sold comps one card at a time. If you want to trade, you're negotiating in DMs with no protection. <br>

Graded fixes all of it.