Pokémon cards will soon have their ‘Polymarket moment’ — Bitwise

Pokémon trading cards are on the verge of having their “Polymarket moment,” with trading moving onchain after decades of physical meetups and shipments.

Pokémon trading cards could be the next real-world asset to move onchain at scale, potentially bringing a $21.4 billion market to the blockchain. 

“Pokémon and other [trading card games] are about to have their ‘Polymarket moment,’” said Bitwise research analyst Danny Nelson on Thursday. 

“I expect the Pokémon boom will be sticky — one of those moments where an ‘only in crypto’ innovation breaks into the mainstream. Kinda like what Polymarket did for prediction markets.”

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