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By Evie Vavasseur
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How the Vault System Actually Works. The mechanics here are worth unpacking because they're a bit different from your typical NFT…
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One App, No Platform-Hopping. The friction problem in physical collectibles is real.
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Jupiter Mobile just got a lot more interesting for collectors. The Solana-based app has folded physical trading card functionality directly into its platform through its Gacha…
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That's a pretty sharp pivot for a platform that started life as a crypto swap tool. Jupiter has been stacking features for a while now — perpetual contracts, lending protocols,…
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Thomas Stoffels, Head of Product, wants Gacha to make Jupiter the single destination for collectors.
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The mechanics here are worth unpacking because they're a bit different from your typical NFT project. Users buy digital card packs inside the app.
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It's a clean loop. And the vault side isn't just a promise — third-party partners handle grading, authentication, and storage before the NFT even gets minted.
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Shipping risk gets covered too. Physical cards are insured during transit. If a shipment goes missing, users can claim the insured value, which is spelled out in the token's…
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The friction problem in physical collectibles is real. Traditionally, buying, grading, storing, and selling cards involves jumping between marketplaces, grading services, storage…
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For crypto-native users, the blockchain layer probably feels natural. But Jupiter seems to be betting there's a broader audience — collectors who don't necessarily live on-chain…
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And the collectibles market is big. Physical trading cards have seen wild demand swings over the past several years, with rare Pokémon cards in particular fetching prices that…
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The NFT-to-physical redemption model isn't entirely new — a handful of projects have tried it — but embedding it inside an app with 240,000 monthly active users and $575 million…
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Worth watching whether the vault infrastructure scales cleanly as more users start redeeming cards.
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