🚨 TCG CARD MARKET HITS INSANE LEVELS

Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10 just sold for $16.49M — a 3x return in 5 years and a Guinness World Record for any trading card ever.

Logan Paul bought it for $5.28M in 2021 from a Dubai collector. Flipped it to AJ Scaramucci through Goldin Auctions in 2026.

Only 1 PSA 10 exists out of ~41 printed. Awarded in a 1998 CoroCoro contest in Japan.

TOP 10 ALL-TIME TCG SALES:

1. Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10 - $16.49M (2026)

2. Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10 - $5.28M (2021) [same card]

3. Black Lotus Alpha CGC 10 - $3.00M (2024)

4. The One Ring 1/1 - $2.00M (2023)

5. Pikachu Illustrator PSA 9 - $1.41M (2026)

6. Pikachu Illustrator PSA 7 - $900K (2022)

7. Pikachu Illustrator PSA 9 - $840K (2022)

8. Black Lotus Artist Proof - $800K (2022)

9. Pikachu Illustrator CGC 9.5 - $672K (2022)

10. Black Lotus Artist Proof CGC 8.5 - $615K (2023)

Alternative assets are printing. Collectibles with provable scarcity and cultural weight are outperforming traditional stores of value.

If you're not watching rare physical assets alongside your crypto bags, you're missing half the game.