POKÉMON$25EV 109.7%6.71%POKÉMON$50EV 108.8%7.52%ONE PIECE$50EV 110.0%6.48%ANIME$75EV 110.4%6.12%SEALED$80EV 104.1%6.32%SPORTS$100EV 105.2%5.36%BASKETBALL$100EV 104.9%5.6%BASEBALL$100EV 105.0%5.46%FOOTBALL$100EV 105.2%5.33%POKÉMON$250EV 104.9%5.61%ONE PIECE$250EV 104.9%5.59%BASKETBALL$250EV 104.9%5.58%BASEBALL$250EV 105.0%5.51%FOOTBALL$250EV 104.6%5.84%POKÉMON$1000EV 102.0%5.13%ONE PIECE$1000EV 101.9%5.23%POKÉMON$2500EV 102.2%4.99%POKÉMON$5000EV 102.0%5.18%
Paper rip open · real rips locked

Real graded
Pokémon slabs.
Ripped from
Robinhood Chain.

Pay USDG, stay on Robinhood Chain. A real vault opens a real slab, we custody it, buy it back at a posted floor, or ship it to your door. Odds and edge shown first.

Cheapest machine right now: pokemon_25 at $25, average card $27.44, vault edge 6.71% before our 3% fee.

Live readMachines18Card value vs price101.9–110.4%Vault edge4.99–7.52%Buyback floor85–93%Our fee3%Paper ripsFree
$MINT contract addresspre-launch

CA drops at launch.

$MINT has not launched. No presale, no allocation round, no whitelist — anyone offering you one is running a scam. The fair launch happens on pons.family, and the address appears here and on the pinned post of @pokemintRH at the same moment. This site will never ask you to sign a transaction, approve a token, or enter a seed phrase.

BAY 013 free rips a day · no wallet

Feel the odds first.
Pay for them later.

A paper rip runs the machine's real posted odds and hands you a real card from its live winner feed — never our own randomness, so the demo cannot be tuned to look generous. It prints the same receipt a paid rip does, including what you would have paid.

Paper rip · free3 a day
Pick a machine
Price
$25
Avg card
$27.44
Buyback
85%
Vault edge
−6.71%
A hundred rips look like this1% epic
common
75%
uncommon
20%
rare
4.0%
epic
1.0%
Day streak

Best paper hit

League

Weekly

Receiptawaiting rip

Crank the machine and a real card from its live feed lands here, with what you would have paid printed next to what it is worth.

Last out of this machineUNCOMMON

2001 #011 Voltorb 1st Edition PS

PSA MINT 9

$32

Feed sampled 58 pulls across 4 machines. Cards shown are ones the vault actually paid out, never a render.

  • Same machine list, same live odds and EV as a paid rip
  • The result is a real card pulled from that machine's live winner feed — never our own RNG
  • Shows what you would have paid against what the pull is worth, edge included
  • Daily streak and a weekly league, prizes paid in $MINT to a claimed wallet
  • Every paper rip mints the same receipt card as a real one, watermarked PAPER
BAY 02Behind the glass

This one is in a machine
right now.

Not concept art, not a mockup — graded slabs sitting in the vault behind the machines, with their own images and their own insured values.

2011 #SL7 Lugia-Holo PSA 10 CallGRADE 10

2011 #SL7 Lugia-Holo PSA 10 Call

$250,000

epic · POKÉMON $5000 machine

What it takes to pull itpokemon_5000

1.0% of rips
land in this tier.

One hundred rips of the POKÉMON $5000 machine, coloured by its own posted odds. The coral squares are the tier this card sits in — and each of those hundred still costs the edge.

  • Legendary Collection Booster Box

    Legendary Collection Booster Box

    POKÉMON $5000
    $190,000
  • 2001 #65 Shining Gyarados-Holo 1

    2001 #65 Shining Gyarados-Holo 1

    POKÉMON $2500
    $90,000
  • 1999 #2 Blastoise-Holo 1st Editi

    1999 #2 Blastoise-Holo 1st Editi

    POKÉMON $2500
    $82,500
  • 2026 #061 Monkey D. Luffy PSA 10

    2026 #061 Monkey D. Luffy PSA 10

    ONE PIECE $1000
    $45,000
  • 2025 #015 Roronoa Zoro PSA 10 On

    2025 #015 Roronoa Zoro PSA 10 On

    ONE PIECE $1000
    $45,000

Catalogue read 7 Sept 2026 · 13:37 UTC · images self-hosted, so this page never calls a third-party CDN · insured values are the vault's, not our appraisal.

BAY 03Sortable · filterable

The machines publish today.
Nobody stores yesterday.

EV, odds and stock move all day and vanish. We poll and bank the lot so a trend exists at all. Sort it, filter it — the edge column already includes our fee and spread, because folding them in would be the oldest trick in the category.

The floor
18/18 shown · read 7 Sept 2026 · 13:37 UTC
Price, expected value, buyback rate and all-in edge for every public machine. Sortable by column.
pokemon_2500$2,500$2,553.93102.2%93%$2,375.169.1%
pokemon_1000$1,000$1,020.06102.0%93%$948.669.3%
pokemon_5000$5,000$5,098.01102.0%93%$4,741.159.3%
onepiece_1000$1,000$1,019.02101.9%93%$947.699.4%
football_100$100$105.19105.2%90%$94.679.5%
sports_100$100$105.16105.2%90%$94.649.5%
baseball_100$100$105.05105.0%90%$94.549.6%
baseball_250$250$262.46105.0%90%$236.229.6%
basketball_250$250$262.27104.9%90%$236.049.7%
onepiece_250$250$262.25104.9%90%$236.029.7%
basketball_100$100$104.88104.9%90%$94.409.7%
pokemon_250$250$262.19104.9%90%$235.979.7%
football_250$250$261.56104.6%90%$235.4010.0%
anime_75$75$82.84110.4%85%$70.4110.2%
sealed_80$80$83.28104.1%90%$74.9510.4%
onepiece_50$50$55.01110.0%85%$46.7610.6%
pokemon_25$25$27.44109.7%85%$23.3210.8%
pokemon_50$50$54.40108.8%85%$46.2411.6%

Thinnest all-in edge in this view: pokemon_2500 at 9.1%. Still a cost, not a strategy. All-in = vault edge + our 3% fee + 1.5% spread.

Deliberately missing: a trend column. Banking only began recently, so there is no history to draw yet — and an empty column beats a fabricated sparkline. That gap closes on its own; every day the indexer runs, the archive grows and the distance a competitor would have to make up widens.

BAY 04Do the math yourself

The cards are not cheap.
The spread is where you lose.

Almost everyone gets this backwards, including people who rip daily. Pick a machine, pick a rip count, and watch the arithmetic run on real numbers read from the vault.

Edge calculatorexpected value · not a prediction
Machine
How many rips
Rarity odds
common
80%
uncommon
15%
rare
4.0%
epic
1.0%
You spend
$515

$51.50 × 10

Expected back
$455

85% floor − 1.5%

Expected cost
−$60

11.6% all-in edge

Chance of at least one epic in 10 rips
9.6%

1 − (1 − p)^n. A hundred rips at 1% is 63.4%, not 100% — and each rip still costs the edge whether or not it lands.

Expected value over many rips, not a forecast of yours. Any single rip is pure chance. The predictable part is the 11.6% all-in edge — the vault's 7.52%, our 3% fee, and the 1.5% buyback spread — and it applies whether you win or lose. Ripping is entertainment and collecting, never income.

BAY 05Mint credits

Deposit once.
Then stop waiting on a chain.

A rip used to mean one cross-chain round trip per click. Credits move that loop off the chain: one credit is one dollar, rips clear in about a second, and the only onchain moments are the two you would want anyway.

  1. 01

    Paper rip, free

    on your screen

    Three a day, no wallet. Same machines, same live odds. The card you get is a real one from the live feed — the demo cannot be tuned to look generous.

  2. 02

    Deposit once

    on your screen

    Connect the Robinhood Chain wallet you already have and deposit USDG. One credit is one dollar. That is the last time you wait on a chain.

  3. 03

    Rip in a second

    in the kitchen

    Credits leave the ledger, our float pays the vault, the pack opens on Solana. You sit on one screen for ten to forty seconds and never bridge.

  4. 04

    Receipt, then choose

    on your screen

    Card, grade, insured value, what you paid, the vault tx and the VRF proof on one receipt. Keep it, take the posted buyback into credits, or ship the physical slab.

1 credit = 1 USDG

Deposit once on Robinhood Chain. The payment listener credits the ledger the moment the transfer confirms.

Rip in ~1 second

Credits leave the ledger instantly; the Solana float settles with the vault behind the scenes, in batches.

Buyback → credits

The posted floor is paid back into your balance the moment you take it. Rip again or leave.

Withdraw, fee 0

Credits back to USDG on Robinhood Chain. Minimum $20, instant up to $500, reviewed above. Limits published.

Tickets, not assets

Credits cannot be transferred or traded and pay no yield. They exist to rip and to leave.

Two onchain moments

Deposit and withdraw. Everything between is a ledger we can audit, cap, reconcile hourly and alarm.

Withdraw fee

0%

Minimum

$20

Instant up to

$500

Charging you to leave is how a product tells you it expects you to.

BAY 06Provably fair, across two chains

“Trust us” is a
broken product.

The uncomfortable fact about any custodial gacha: the randomness happens somewhere you cannot see. Ours fires on Solana, under our account. Left alone that means taking our word for it — so we don't leave it alone.

Every rip permanently stores four things, and the receipt hands you all of them: the credits that left your balance, the vault pack-open transaction, the VRF request and proof, and the resulting card with its insured value.

The receipt links out to the explorer and to a public verify page — /verify/:ripId — where roll, tier and card each trace back to the same proof the machine used. No wallet needed to look, so you can hand the link to a stranger.

Paper rips print the same receipt, watermarked, with no transaction attached. Same layout, same honesty about what it cost — the only difference is that no money moved.

Provably fair should not be a paragraph in a whitepaper. It should be a button. Ours is — and it works even though the randomness lives on a chain you never touch.

A receipt curling out of a capsule machine
Proof recordSpecimen
Credits paid
5,150

what left your balance, fee included

Pack open · Solana
5Hn…9Q

the vault transaction we paid for

VRF request + proof
cc-vrf:…

the randomness the machine actually used

Roll → tier → card
epic · Lugia PSA 10

every step derived from that proof

Paid vs pull
5,150 · $250,000

what it cost against what came out

The record attached to every rip. Values are placeholders — real ones appear on your own receipt, and on the public verify page for anybody else's. Vault, VRF and shipping belong to Collector Crypt; the proof layer is ours.

BAY 07Security & custody

We hold real value.
That makes us a target.

USDG in, a float out, graded cards in custody. Custodial gacha gets attacked, and pretending otherwise is how projects become postmortems. So the controls are published, not implied.

  • Hot / cold split

    Majority of value in cold storage. Those seed phrases never touch a server.

  • Isolated signer

    Signing keys sit in one service, separate from the API. Owning the API does not mean being able to sign.

  • Destination allowlist

    The signer can pay the vault and approved buyback targets. Not “shouldn’t” — cannot.

  • Per-tx + daily limits

    A bounded blast radius. Even a fully successful attack hits a ceiling it cannot raise.

  • Alarm on every outflow

    Funds moving fires instantly. What decides how bad an incident gets is the gap between it happening and us knowing.

  • Hourly reconciler

    Ledger total against hot, float and cold. Drift beyond a threshold freezes withdrawals before it freezes anything else.

  • Non-root, socket-free

    Nothing internet-facing touches the container runtime. Secrets stay server-side, never in a browser bundle.

  • Published wallets

    Treasury and float addresses are public, so outflows are auditable by anyone who cares to check.

A mint feather resting on a stack of gold graded slabs inside an open vault

Security is enforcement, not obscurity.

The engine is internet-facing because the browser has to reach it. It is safe because it authorises every request — not because anyone assumes the URL went unnoticed. This landing page holds zero credentials and zero wallet code; it is a pile of static files.

The moving parts

Indexer

Polls the vault every 60s, writes only on change, logs every cycle so silence and downtime look different.

Credits ledger

The only balance that exists. Atomic rows, idempotent deposits, hourly reconciliation.

Isolated signer

Holds the keys, nothing else. Allowlist, per-tx and daily limits, alarm on every outflow.

Paper rip

Draws a real card from the live feed by the machine's posted odds. Rate-limited by device.

Receipt generator

Renders the share image and the verify page for every rip, paper or real.

Read API

Four narrow endpoints, a read-only database role, CORS locked to our domains.

Chain
Robinhood Chain (4663), USDG settlement
Vault
Collector Crypt on Solana, VRF per pack
Landing
Static export, zero wallet code, zero third-party requests
App
Next.js, wagmi, injected wallets only
Data
Encrypted Postgres on a private network, read-only API role
Keys
Isolated signer, cold seeds off-server
BAY 08$MINT · utility only

The token cuts the fee.
It never touches the odds.

The odds belong to the machine's VRF and are identical for a whale and a newcomer. Anything else would be a lie and a legal problem. So the token does the things a token can honestly do: discount, access, seats, and a share of fees that actually came in.

Holder tiersof 1B supply
  • Spectator

    > 0 $MINT · any
    • Catalog, live feed, paper rip, EV and PnL
    • Holder badge on receipts
  • Ripper

    100k $MINT · 0.01%
    • Fee discount tier 1, pay the fee in $MINT
    • Alerts + CSV export
    • 5 paper rips a day instead of 3
  • Collector

    1M $MINT · 0.1%
    • Bigger discount + free-rip pool eligibility
    • Whale pull feed
    • First in line when rips open
  • Whale

    10M $MINT · 1%
    • Max discount, 25% off the fee, API access
    • Governance signal on the fee split
    • First seat at every Mint Night
Where a fee goesevery fee event
Holder rewards pool0%

fee discounts + free rips, funded only by fees actually collected

Treasury · ops · float0%

engineering, legal reserve, float top-ups from cold

Buyback & burn0%

market-buys $MINT on every fee event and destroys it

The pool is a share of fees actually collected, sized by volume. A quiet week pays a small pool and drains nothing; a loud week pays a big one. No fixed rate is promised, so none can be broken.

What $MINT may never do

  • Never better odds. The odds are the vault's VRF, identical for a whale and a newcomer.
  • Never a rip gated behind the token. Rips are paid in credits, one to one with USDG.
  • Never a fixed yield. The reward pool is a share of fees actually collected, sized by volume.
  • Never new emission. Rewards recycle fees; the supply only ever shrinks.

Where the money comes from

  1. 01

    Rip fee

    3% on top of the vault price, charged in credits at rip time. Needs the vault resale deal.

  2. 02

    Buyback spread

    Vault floor minus 1.5%. An 85% floor pays 83.5% into your credits.

  3. 03

    Premium terminal

    Hold-gated whale feed, alerts, CSV and API. Runs today, no deal needed.

  4. 04

    Redemption

    Handling on physical redemption when the slab ships.

  5. 05

    Mint Night seats

    Paid in $MINT and burned. Not income — it drives the rip volume of 01.

  6. 06

    Token fees

    Launchpad curve fee on $MINT trades. Creator tax is 0%.

Mint Night ticket

Seat at a scheduled high-tier batch. Bought in $MINT, 100% burned. The ticket buys the seat, never the pull.

Buyback & burn

20% of every fee event market-buys and destroys $MINT.

Hold streak + cliff

Reward weight = amount × consecutive days. Sell any and the streak resets. Seven-day cliff before eligibility.

Total supply
1,000,000,000 $MINT, fixed
Launch
pons.family V2 fair launch, LP locked at graduation
Team allocation
0% pre-mine. Small disclosed creator bundle bought at market in the launch tx, visible on-chain
Presale
None
Creator tax
0% — a round-trip costs the 2% curve fee, not 4%
Tradeable
From launch, no migration wait
What it buys
Fee discounts, free-rip pool, seats, tiers, access. Never odds.

Rips are paid in credits, one to one with USDG — playing is never gated behind a volatile asset. The most $MINT can do to a price is take 25% off the 3% fee. That is the whole discount, stated plainly so nobody has to reverse-engineer it.

BAY 10Restock schedule

What is open,
and what is still locked.

Real rips need a resale permission from the vault, an isolated signer and a funded float. Until all three exist the buttons stay dead — and the free floor, the terminal and the token do not wait for them.

  1. PHASE 0

    Foundation

    donedone
    • Name, ticker, official mark
    • Handle set audited
    • Model locked: credits ledger, paper rip, custodial broker
    • Indexer, read API, landing, app and mini app built
  2. PHASE 1

    Paper rip live

    in progressweeks 1–2
    • Rebrand every surface
    • Paper rip on the landing, streak and league
    • Receipt generator and verify pages
    • Production deploy, security gate green
  3. PHASE 2

    $MINT launch

    nextweeks 3–4
    • Fair launch on pons.family V2, creator tax 0%
    • Holder tiers live
    • League prizes paid weekly
    • First Mint Night announced
  4. PHASE 3

    Real rips

    laterweeks 4–10
    • Vault API key and custodial-resale permission
    • Credits ledger, listener, reconciler
    • Isolated signer, allowlist, limits, alarms
    • Rips open Collector tier first, caps raised weekly
  5. PHASE 4

    Scale

    laterweeks 10+
    • Physical redemption and logistics
    • More machines as the vault adds them
    • Public data API
    • Mint Night as a monthly ritual

What brings people back

Daily streak
Three free paper rips, reset at 00:00 UTC. Ripper tier gets five.
Weekly paper league
Biggest paper hit and best paper PnL. Prizes in $MINT; claiming needs a wallet, so farming anonymous rips earns nothing.
Receipt on every pull
Card, grade, value, proof and a verify link, rendered as an image. One tap to X. Big hits get a second card with the machine odds printed on it.
Restock and floor alerts
Epic stock dropping, buyback floor moving, EV crossing a line — delivered by the Telegram bot.
Mint Night calendar
Seats sell out with a date attached.
BAY 11The honest take

Why this category
keeps dying.

Four failures show up in every onchain card product. They are the reason this one is shaped the way it is — and the risks below are printed at the same size as the strengths.

  1. 01

    The audience gap

    Robinhood Chain holds USDG and an appetite for tokenized real-world value. The best card gacha in crypto is unreachable to it without bridging, SOL and a new wallet.

  2. 02

    No history

    The machines publish today and forget yesterday. EV, odds and stock vanish the moment they move. Nobody banks the series.

  3. 03

    No proof

    When the VRF fires under a custodial account, the buyer has no way to verify the pull. It is a promise.

  4. 04

    No funnel

    Every product in the category starts with a wallet prompt. Nobody gets to feel the odds before paying.

The status quoPOKEMINT

Card gacha lives on Solana; Robinhood Chain users cannot play without a second wallet

Pay USDG on Robinhood Chain. The Solana plumbing is ours, in the kitchen

Bare front-ends: no PnL, no live EV, no history

A terminal: live EV, odds, stock, PnL and banked history from day one

“Trust us” pulls on a chain the buyer cannot see

Every rip exposes the vault tx and VRF proof on a receipt anyone can open

Wallet first, then maybe a demo

Paper rip first, free, real odds. Wallet only when you want the real thing

House edge hidden, sold as a way to get rich

Edge printed next to every price, sold as entertainment and collecting

Vault source obscured

Vault named, not-affiliated stated. Transparency is the trust feature

What is genuinely strong

  • The engine already runs: indexer, read API and terminal are live against real machines
  • The free tier is the funnel and the ad: every paper rip mints a shareable receipt
  • Credits make the cross-chain part a batch problem instead of a per-click one
  • Nothing in the design lets anyone tilt the odds, including us

What could sink it

  • The vault resale deal is the blocker. Without it, real rips stay closed and Layer 1 stands alone
  • Custody of real value is a target. The controls above bound the damage; they do not make it zero
  • Paid gacha with real-value outcomes is a gambling grey area in several jurisdictions. Geo-block, age gate, no income claims
  • The trademarks on the cards belong to their owners. We name them to identify the cards, nothing more

Decisions, and why

Credits ledger, not per-rip bridging
One deposit, many rips, about a second each. Onchain only at deposit and withdraw.
Paper rip, anonymous, no wallet
The funnel. Real odds, real feed, zero risk, and every free rip mints a receipt.
Rip fee 3% flat + 1.5% spread
Small enough to print next to the price, large enough to fund the 50/30/20 split at volume.
Disclose the vault source
For a custodial product, saying where the cards come from is the trust feature.
Layer 1 before Layer 2
Prove the audience on free and read-only. Open rips after the deal, the signer and the float are ready.
Token gates discount and seats, never odds
Selling better pulls would be a lie and a legal problem.
Fresh $MINT on pons V2, creator tax 0%
Clean brand, LP locked, round-trip cost 2%.

What we watch

  • Paper rips per day
  • Paper to wallet conversion
  • Receipts shared
  • Holders at Ripper tier or above
  • League claims per week

What we deliberately ignore

  • Token price
  • Follower count
  • Total value locked
BAY 12Disclosure

The fine print,
printed at full size.

Most of this category hides these paragraphs in a footer. For a custodial product, saying them plainly is the trust feature.

Where the cards come from
The slabs, the Solana vault, the VRF, the base odds and the shipping belong to Collector Crypt. Pokemint is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Collector Crypt, nor by Robinhood Markets, Inc., nor by The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, Creatures or Game Freak, whose trademarks identify the cards only.
Pure chance
No skill element. A rip is a randomised outcome and we treat it as exactly that. Nobody, not a whale, not a token holder, not us, can tilt the odds, because the randomness belongs to the machine's VRF.
Entertainment, not income
Packs carry a house edge, disclosed and computed live before you pay. Expected payout after buyback sits below pack price. This is entertainment and collecting, not an investment.
Credits are tickets
Credits are prepaid, one to one with USDG, non-transferable, and pay nothing. They are not a deposit product and not an investment.
Eligibility
Ripping is restricted or prohibited in some jurisdictions and limited to eligible users of legal age, 18+ or higher where local law requires. Restricted regions are geo-blocked and an age gate sits ahead of any paid rip.
Not advice
Pokemint does not provide legal, tax or financial advice. $MINT is a utility token for the application, not an investment product, not a security, not a claim on revenue. DYOR. NFA.
BAY 1310 questions

Ask these before you
trust a custodian.

What is a paper rip?

A free rip with the real machine's real odds. You get an actual card from that machine's live winner feed and see what you would have paid against what it is worth. Three a day, no wallet, no signup. It is a demo of the odds, not a lottery.

Do I need a Solana wallet?

No. Not to paper rip, deposit, rip, buy back or redeem. Solana shows up in exactly one place, the proof links on your receipt.

What are credits?

Prepaid tickets, one to one with USDG. Deposit once, rip many times in about a second each, withdraw back to USDG with zero fee. They cannot be transferred or traded and pay nothing.

How is it provably fair if the randomness is on another chain?

Because we publish the trail. Every rip stores the vault pack-open transaction and the VRF request and proof. The receipt links to the explorer and a public verify page anyone can open.

Can Pokemint just take my money?

Custody always needs some trust. What we can do is bound it: cold storage with seeds off-server, an isolated signer that can only pay an allowlist, per-transaction and daily limits, an alarm on every outflow, an hourly reconciler, and published wallets.

What does the 3% fee buy?

It funds the split: half to the holder pool, thirty to treasury and float, twenty to buyback and burn. It is printed next to every price, never folded into it.

Is this a way to make money?

No, and we will never market it as one. Expected payout after buyback sits below pack price by design. Rip because opening real graded cards is fun and you want the cards.

Can I get the physical card?

Yes. Redemption ships the actual graded slab to your address, one of the three things you can do with a pull alongside keeping it or taking the buyback.

What does holding $MINT get me?

Fee discounts, free rips funded from fees actually collected, more paper rips, the premium terminal, seats at Mint Night, and a governance signal on the split. Never better odds.

When can I rip for real?

After the vault resale permission, the signer and the float are in place. Paper rip, the terminal and the token do not wait for that.