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

Pokémon trading cards could be the next big thing in real-world asset tokenization, 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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