Alternative Assets
Cards in the Portfolio: How Institutional Allocators Are Thinking About Tokenized Collectibles in 2026
A $450B alternative assets market has long included art and wine. Cards — with blockchain-enabled liquidity and verifiable provenance — are the newest entrant that institutional allocators cannot easily dismiss.
Pokémon Cards as Investment: $11.4B Market, Institutional Demand, and the Pikachu Premium
The Pokémon TCG is a $11.4B annual retail business built on controlled scarcity — and its most valuable cards have delivered returns that embarrass most hedge fund strategies.
The PWCC100 Index: What the Sports Card Market's Benchmark Tells Institutional Investors
The PWCC100 tracks the top 100 sports cards by transaction volume — and its +800%, -42%, +63% journey from 2018 to 2025 is the most instructive data set in alternative collectibles.
Tokenized Trading Cards: The $50B Alternative Asset Class That Institutional Investors Can No Longer Ignore
The $420,000 Charizard, the $12.6M Mickey Mantle, and a blockchain ledger that proves ownership: trading cards have become a legitimate alternative asset class, and tokenization is completing their institutionalisation.