GM☕️ Bandai just announced: The "Naruto" TCG is set for a global drop in 2027, with a commemorative illustration drawn by Masashi Kishimoto himself.
Gen Con 2026 will unveil the first public playtest details: On 7/30, if you hit up the free tutorial session, you'll snag the very first card of the entire series—CP-001 Chakra Card, exclusive to Gen Con 2026. https://www.naruto-cardgame.com/en/news/gencon-2026.php
This "limited pre-release first card before the official launch" is basically the perfect asset to trade on expectations. Once the Naruto TCG really kicks off in 2027, looking back at this CP-001, the price is likely to skyrocket.
Too bad the event is in USA Indianapolis, can’t make it😮💨
This is Bandai's third major IP, following One Piece and Dragon Ball. As an OPCG player, I'm feeling a bit mixed—on one hand, there's a new pit to dive into, but on the other, One Piece will now have to compete with Naruto for shelf space and wallets😅
However, with top-tier IP entering the game, there's a high chance it will expand the entire TCG market in the long run; it might not be a zero-sum game.
GM☕️ Today it hit me: during the World Cup, asking someone "Which team do you support?" can actually be pretty offensive.
Think about it, even if someone loves a specific player, at the end of the day, aren’t they supporting their national team? So when you ask, "Which team do you support?" it kinda implies that you think their national team doesn't deserve to be in the World Cup🤣.
And as Chinese folks, we can naturally throw that question out there because—let’s face it—our national team just doesn't make the cut😭. Since we were kids, we've been used to picking a team from someone else's national squad to back.
GM☕️ My ZH Nika Luffy numbered card just scored a PSA 9😭
Cetering really isn't that great🫠, but getting a good number and still hitting a 9 is pretty frustrating. Fam, drop some advice, what should I do now?🤣
GM☕️ Ceasefire talks have been settled, oil's down, stocks are up, and crypto's pumping.
That's how the market rolls—when it dips, everyone yells about fundamentals, valuations, and liquidity, but the real move comes from a single geopolitical headline🫠.
Yeah, it's up, but it doesn't really affect me. Just hanging in there for now.
GM☕️ OPCG just dropped the new P card "Promo Card Pack EX Vol.4" and the artwork is fire!
How to get it: "26-27 Season First Regional Tournament" (starting May 30). You can earn it by playing on-site, finish your matches / win 3 out of 5 casual games, and you'll get a pack with 3 random cards, a total of 9 different ones.
GM☕️ Binance wallet also launched the SPCXx IPO event, with Alpha points you can snag some allocation. I haven't been active in a while, still got 120 points locked at $200K U, that's wild🤣
I made a small play on Kraken yesterday, looks like I gotta make a move on BN today too, after all, who knows how much we’ll actually get.
GM☕️ Pokémon TCG has recently been ranging, and it even seems to be dropping in price. The bearish sentiments are starting to rise. But to me, it’s all about attention rotation — everyone’s running off to play OPCG now, and I personally believe the backdrop of the 30th anniversary is far from over.
Just a little rant, purely from my feelings: Over the years of trading crypto, my friends outside the scene always tell me, 'This stuff is a scam, it has no value.' Now with TCG, I have friends outside telling me, 'It’s just a bunch of pieces of paper, what value do they have?' Every time I smile on the surface, but internally I'm like: Gold has no real value either; it’s just a lump of rock 🙄, yet people still buy it, right?
I studied materials in undergrad and did my master’s and PhD in chemical engineering, so I know very well — gold is essentially a metal that conducts well, is chemically inert, and easy to store, yet people still buy it.
To put it simply, it’s all about consensus 🤣 Intrinsic value ≠ consensus value.
Cards are printed materials, gold is a stable metal, BTC is just a string of code — the value of all three doesn’t lie in their material, but in how many people agree that they are valuable.
In the last 3 years, PTCG has outperformed all mainstream indices and the premium of precious metals, and in the last 30 years, not a single card box has been stuck in a loss.
Is the bubble big? Absolutely massive. But the market is fundamentally about bubbles; what is a bubble? A bubble is liquidity, high hotspots, and high topicality. Without a bubble, it’s just a stagnant pool.
Playing with bubbles has never been about what the essence is, but how long the consensus can last. Put aside your biases; if you like it, study it, if you don’t like it, go find something you do like to play with. People need to keep busy; what else are you going to do with your time?
GM☕️ In less than a month, the trading index for the exchange "One Piece" hit 606.6, with a daily increase of +2.54%. Since the last tweet, it has surged by 25%🫠
The stars of the show these past few days have been the collab Promo cards represented by soccer, basketball, and baseball cards. The soccer BVB collab card is the most outrageous, as the price in sneaker shops skyrocketed from 285k yen to 500k yen in just a week (could it be due to the World Cup?🤣)
There have also been various small cards spiking in price, but I can't list them all.
Which one do you guys like the most among soccer, basketball, and baseball? (The attached image shows my ranking)
GM☕️ It's confirmed! The second drop of Dodgers baseball cards is here, and there are definitely cards available.
But honestly, I think this new card just can't compete with the first drop's Dodgers card—Luffy swinging that bat looked way cooler in the first series. Plus, this one's a DON!! card, and due to format issues, the design doesn’t fill the whole card, which makes it less appealing.
Once the new cards come out, it’s hard to predict how the price of the first drop will move, but personally, I lean towards '1st is 1st'. Considering the second drop's design isn’t as good as the first (just my opinion), it should be a bullish sign for the first drop's Luffy baseball card.
GM☕️ The market's been pretty flat, $BTC has dropped to 63k, and on the Crypto List, only $HYPE is killing it. With the ETF launch and perpetual contracts hitting all-time highs, the whales are TWAP-ing their positions, it’s a bullish environment for sure. I’m sitting on a 0 position just watching it rise, and I even opened a short that ended up in a loss🫠.
On-chain, it doesn’t feel like there’s much new to play with right now; we might have to wait for the market to consolidate before anything fresh pops up. CEXs are all scrambling for US stock traffic, feels like all the cash has run over to AI🤣.
Guess I’ll just continue playing TCG for now. Anyone out there have a lead on getting the Pokemon 30th Anniversary expansion pack? Asking for a friend!
GM☕️ This time the short really caught me off guard — the market has been sliding down smoothly.
Currently, my positions are looking pretty reasonable; having some bullets to buy ₿ at any time feels great.
I've indeed opened a short position, but it's so small that I’m a bit embarrassed to show it off🤣, with 0.5 BTC short, I've already closed half of it 🫠. Originally, my average price for the short was 78k, but I closed part of it too early and wasn’t satisfied, so I re-entered and lowered the average price.
Other holdings:
- $HACKME: still barely alive 🫠, not much to say, but I still have faith, so I’ll just hold on and play dead;
- $CARDS: quite a surprise, this massive pump has already recovered all my principal, and the funds in my bn alpha account are all profit now (still stubbornly doing some pyramid trading, not sure how much I’ve sold too early🤣)
- Continuing to follow @coinkarma_'s quant strategy, with one goal — to outperform BTC is a win. Coinkarma has a series of indicators that allow for custom signals, and I recently got some tips from @OKxiaohai in Shanghai, the custom indicators are super valuable. Finally, we’ve seen the first buy signal.
As for my outlook on the market, I believe this is probably the last leg of this cycle's downturn, but it will likely be "long and drawn-out" — slowly grinding down, giving us enough time to reload on BTC.
I definitely can’t guess the bottom, so my plan is to stick to the pyramid order strategy that Banana Bro @frozenraspberry taught me — basically just buy a little when it dips, and more when it dips a lot (the pyramid points in the chart are taken from Banana Bro’s notes, they are time-sensitive, and if the structure changes, I’ll definitely adjust, anyone wanting to learn can DM Banana Bro🤤).
PS: A huge shoutout to TCG cards, making this bear market feel fulfilling🤣, there’s always something to play with!
GM, I just saw the hey stock little dog on the BSC Chain yesterday, and I realized that Binance's big move on June 1 is to connect crypto users directly with US stocks. A bit late to the party 🤡
I scrolled through the timeline to check out related articles, and the info from the APK decompilation is:
- Real US stock trading - Custodied by Alpaca - Supports fractional shares - You can mint bStocks that run 24/7 on the BNB Chain. This is basically combining the traditional broker model (fractional shares + regulated custody) with on-chain 24/7 liquidity.
I’ve always been resistant to moving funds to a US stock account. I've been in the crypto scene for years, and it’s a path dependence. Currency exchange, KYC, broker comparisons, T+N deposit frictions – every time I think about making a move, it’s a bit annoying. Plus, there’s always something fun to do on-chain, so I’ve been lazy about switching. Now, Binance has put the entry point right in front of me, without even needing to change environments.
There are definitely a bunch of details to confirm on June 1, but the key point is the legal rights protection – whether the bStocks you buy will actually have dividends, voting rights, or liquidation priority. But for someone like me who’s "too lazy to change battlefields," this is a straight-up positive.