🚨 Breaking news: @PaniniAmerica CFO Robert/Bob Hull just announced that #PaniniBlockchain bridge to ethereum chain of @ethereumfndn @VitalikButerin will be live end of this month. Native ethereum NFT collectors will soon see #PaniniBC cards on @opensea. A long waited and much deserved seminal landmark moment in hobby and blockchain history. You and me are part of it. There is also a juicy roadmap where many wishlists by community are in scoping stage. [BC 174/1959]

These are the 3 comments I got from the short I posted on YouTube yesterday. Thought this was funny based on my recent thread with @BaseMintCollect

I think it was Brad Gerstner that said, if you want to know what will be big in 10 years then look at what nerds are doing right now in their free time... As to not offend anyone I'll speak for myself on that one haha. I have nothing against physical cards, but they do seem to have all the cool kids right now. And I would add in addition too if you want to know what will still be collectable in 30 years look at what kids are collecting now. There are still hurdles with digital collectibles. In some places, age restrictions and the need for parental guidance can make NFTs less accessible for younger collectors. But as technology evolves — and as digital wallets from major tech platforms become more seamless like Google and Apple — I believe collecting digitally will feel just as natural as collecting physical cards, for both kids and adults. Long story short... we are still very early and that's pretty cool. There are not many times in life you can catch a ride on the next big wave and take it all the way to shore. Enjoy it.

Great take! Always important to look around the room and see who is participating. If our generation didn’t as kids we would not be collecting today.

What do Sports Cards NFTs and Bitcoin have in common? BlackRock's Larry Fink knows...

👀 Why I think the future of Panini blockchain cards is very promising 👇 1️⃣ True digital ownership Panini’s blockchain platform lets collectors actually own their cards on-chain, not just inside a closed app. That’s a huge shift from traditional digital collectibles. 2️⃣ Built by an established brand Unlike many NFT projects, Panini already has decades of credibility in the trading card world. That legacy gives the ecosystem real staying power. 3️⃣ Global sports licenses With licenses tied to leagues like the NBA and major soccer organizations, Panini has access to some of the most collectible athletes in the world. 4️⃣ Bridge between physical & digital collecting Panini is in a unique position to connect physical card collectors with blockchain technology, which could bring millions of traditional collectors into Web3. 5️⃣ Still early Many collectors haven’t even discovered blockchain cards yet. As awareness grows, early sets could become extremely desirable. For collectors and investors alike, this space is just getting started. 📈 DYOR as always. #Panini #SportsCards #NFT #BlockchainCards @spinotron @MelitoMichael1 @PaniniNFTs @PaniniAmerica @paninitracker @cardblocknft #sleeptoken

$63K in Kabooms… vs $36K from ONE player 🤯This week’s Top 10 sales on the Panini Blockchain. Congrats to everyone who made the list 🔥 @spinotron @SingaporeTexan @MelitoMichael1 @BilloBank @BaseMintCollect

Appreciate the shoutout 🙏@spinotron To be honest I am still 50/50 on if the company making the collectables should be the one doing the heavy lifting. I don't think I've ever seen that work before long term where a company creates a collectable and advertises it as such. Just works good for creating hype. I kinda think the company provides the experience/collectable and then it's up to the collectors to talk about, share and even deem if collectable. Fanatics has done an incredible job at creating the hype, so it will be very impressive if they can keep this going long term at this level. It may actually be our responsibility as the collector to make this work long term and not Panini. Kinda like we did back in 1989 with UD. I don't ever remember seeing any advertisements from UD saying these are the best collectables, but they provided the experience for me and my friends took it from there.

406 NFTs vs 31,768 PSA 10s… And That’s Just The Beginning 🤯

So there is never confusion In @veefriends .. It’s NFTs > cards, comics, toys, pins, coins The NFTs will always be the grail Of our IP

Another massive add to his already incredible collection @SingaporeTexan with this 1/3 Purple Kaboom purchase. But the question for everyone not collecting on the Panini Blockchain is...

Thank you for the great coverage. My reply to another discussion applies here perfectly, so I will reproduce it here: For me it’s so much convenience and cost effectiveness. For rookies, I can either buy one physical prizm gold or have the best PC of that player on chain with all the top 1/1. (Jayden Daniels, or to a lesser extent Drake Maye.) If he doesn’t pan out, the blunt is also a fraction. For GOATs and those who pan out and become a franchise player or fan favorite, then growth ovet time in perception and userbase will make things naturally more valuable (this accelerator is missing in physical), and equalize to physical if not surpassing in my vision. I also like to buy a NFT right after a player did a milestone or an important moment, to document it on chain on the ledger, kind of like a first day cover with timely stamp.

Congrats @spinotron Big $10k Drake Maye Green Kaboom purchase with almost 10x price discrepancy between the recent physical comp.

This Patrick Mahomes 2025 Prizm base can’t even sell for $0.99 on eBay… but on the Panini Blockchain it’s selling for $6, $7, $13 . Base cards matter again...on the Panini Blockchain.

I agree. When I was in advertising a new cool brand would come in where their product was a type of alcohol the masses didn’t know. They thought that was their uniqueness and strength until we told them before they promote the brand you have to spend millions educating the public on what the hell this type of alcohol is. The big boys already spent billions doing that for you on the mainstream types. Long story short I see the same with NFTs. The pfp projects have to go through that education process as a product where the panini blockchain already has that with sports cards. So instead the PB gets to use that to educate the public about NFTs. That’s why I’ve always thought when NFTs are huge in 10 years I believe an origin story is panini blockchain and sports cards NFTs.

I agree. But adoption is next step of awareness and it will have a chance but when awareness kicks in. Right now awareness is bottleneck I feel like. Because Panini didn’t do massive official marketing. They have 414k IG followers and 239k X followers. Their marketing team seems on a different page to their BC team. That’s ok. We still have new big whales coming in every so often and many other guys exploring at different paces. Making the first big single purchase will be fun and a turning point. I have a friend who was not in the US and was exploring all sorts of careers in early 20s. I got him into PaniniBC maybe one year ago. If anything, he acted surgically. He bought a Messi gold at 4-5k and next one at $30k. Now the price is around 50-100k (physical is already 350-500k), BC version LeBron and Ohtani are 40k so it’s probably fair market value. If one has one of those plays, one can see the sky is the limit potential and have skin in the game, and the world is opening up. Licensing of NBA and NFL makes those portfolio finite and hard capped. If you are in physical hobby, you know all prices hike up precisely because one cannot get more. Before Fleer went belly up, Jordan PMG green was $8-12k and now $3-10M. Before Exquisite concluded its run when UD lost license to Panini, dual logoman of MJ/Kobe was $100k , now $13M . Before people realize Luka was not in Topps TC checklist, Luka prizm in 2023 was 20k , now $375k. Those are not isolated examples, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of such before and after examples for each category to close and price going to stratosphere. Having product coming to continue the lineage is also important, WC and La Liga, WNBA and Nascar and several other big IPs are being cooked which will be important too especially to web3 native, so that box is checked. Worrying about Panini’s staying power is comical. It’s longest running card company without change of ownership since 1961, not a startup backed VC with a small team running the show. Last 16 years many future millionaires and billionaires grow up in Panini’s dominance and will be nostalgic and in financial prime, and chase their obtainable then cards just like current 40-50 years old demographic chasing hard on the aforementioned cards which were unobtainium for them back then. If worry about black swan or change of ownership, those PaniniBC are going to ethereum and with 18 trait meta data to fully document provenance and traits, image and videos will be full on chain, so eternal ownership will be here and soon. It’s always taking some affirmation for guys to get in, when everything is fully in place, it will take a lot more cost and efforts to land the same thing. Just like when smpratt was talking about Pikachu illustrators 10 years ago, it was 20-50k, now Logan Paul and many others like Scaramuccis of the world chasing they are $1-16M. In any case, just follow along my X posts for the ride, maybe you can get into single market at some point later where the goodies really lie.

Top 10 sports card NFT sales this week on the Panini Blockchain are in — 🚨🔥 Kabooms and Downtowns are back with the new NFL Best Of drop! Congrats to everyone who made the list 🔥 @spinotron @MarginSports @JasonLemke (PS there were some more hot sales that came in shortly after this list was compiled, so they will be carried over to next weeks Top 10)

Another much deserved thank you to @paninibcboy for running this giveaway. Very cool for all participants and myself 🙏🙏🙏

#PaniniBlockchain dropped $100 packs today, Best Of 2025 Inserts! I hit this in my 3rd pack pretty sick Purple Kaboom of @CALEBcsw 3/3 Numbered of one of top QBs of the future what do you think this sells for? #whodoyoucollect #thehobby @CardPurchaser @cardblocknft

@jedimooch welcome to X 🙌💥 King of Collectibles!!