Sports Cards
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Lens 4 · Platform Intelligence
Alt.com: How Tiger Global's $100M Bet Is Turning Sports Cards Into a Financial Asset Class
Alt's vault, price guide, and card lending products represent the most serious attempt to bring institutional financial infrastructure to the sports card market.
Lens 2 · Cross-Platform Benchmark
Pokémon vs. Sports Cards vs. MTG: Which Card Category Delivers Superior Investment Returns?
Three dominant card categories compete for investor capital with radically different scarcity mechanics, liquidity profiles, and risk characteristics. The data since 2019 separates performance from narrative.
Lens 1 · Progress vs. Promise
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The Card Market's $12B Bubble, Its Collapse, and Why the Recovery Is Different This Time
The 2020-2021 trading card mania added $12 billion in value before erasing half of it. Three years later, the recovery shows structurally different characteristics — more institutional, more digital, more tokenized. But the speculative impulse hasn't gone anywhere.