Coinbase Teases Pokémon Card Packs Backed by Physical Collectibles
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Coinbase teased a mobile feature for opening Pokémon trading card packs from its app on Sept. 28. The preview said each pull would be backed by a physical card, with users able to keep it in a vault or have it shipped, and one description said the physical cards would remain in storage for possible later delivery.[17343][24827]
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Collectors who use Coinbase’s app are the people most directly affected, because the feature preview points to phone-based pack opening with a physical card attached to each pull. That means someone could handle the reveal in the app while still having a path to keep the card in a vault or ask for shipment, if the feature appears as described.
In practice, the change is that the pack-opening step moves into the app while the matching card is not purely digital. What stays the same is that there is still a physical card behind each pull, and one description says those cards remain in storage until later delivery is requested. (per tokenpost.com)
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