Tokenizing
Re: putting it on chain.
Graded cards can be vaulted and traded as a token backed 1:1 by the physical slab, on Polygon or on Solana. We handle the whole trip for you — in, out, or across. First we tell you whether it is worth it, and mostly it is not.
Start with the card.
We price it, add up what grading, postage and handling actually cost, and tell you what it would have to come back worth to be worth doing.
Why we mostly say don’t
Three costs, and only one of them is obvious.
Grading
About $80 a card today, and it is spent whether the grade comes back good or not. This is the one everybody already knows about — and it was about $25 when most of the slabs you have seen were made.
The card itself
Grading a card means you are no longer selling it raw. Its current value is part of what the exercise costs you — a point almost nobody includes, because it makes the sum look worse.
The floor
The cheapest card actually listed on Solana’s largest tokenized card market was $13.58, with nothing at all under $5. Below that there is no market to sell into.
Put together, a $20 card has to come back worth about $143 to break even. A 30-cent common would need $123 — four hundred times its value. Those are not close calls, and no service that charges to grade cards has any reason to tell you so. The slab lookup runs the same sum backwards, on a slab that already exists.
What we handle
Four trips, two vaults.
A card can go into either vault or come back out of it. Moving a card between chains is one of each, back to back, with the physical slab in the post in between — which is the part the spread never shows you.
Into Polygon
PausedA graded card in your hands becomes a Courtyard token you hold.
Courtyard is not taking cards in right now: “Collectible submissions are paused. Due to overwhelming demand, we have temporarily paused collectible submissions to the vault.” Seen 2026-09-11. Cards already there can still be redeemed.
Storage and insurance are free; you pay postage to the vault.
Published by the vault, 2026-09-11. Submissions are paused at the vault, so this is the fee when it reopens, not a fee you can pay today.
Vault: Courtyard
Out of Polygon
PolygonA Courtyard token you hold becomes the physical slab, posted to you.
One charge to ship the card out of the vault, postage included, paid on redemption.
Measured — our own receipt, 2026-09-05. One card, to a US address. Their docs say the charge varies with the redeemer's location.
Vault: Courtyard
Into Solana
SolanaA graded card in your hands becomes a Collector Crypt token you hold.
"There is no cost to deposit." Graded cards only; you pay postage to the vault.
Published by the vault, 2026-09-13. Creating a deposit from our account charged nothing (13 Sep); the card is on its way to the partner vault — PWCC, in Oregon — and whether anything is charged when it arrives is the receipt still to come.
Vault: Collector Crypt
Out of Solana
SolanaA Collector Crypt token you hold becomes the physical slab, posted to you.
Shipping on redemption, paid when you redeem. Insurance is added at 0.5% only when the parcel is worth more than $5,000.
Published by the vault, 2026-09-11. Some write-ups cite a further 2% of insured value; it is not in the current docs and has not been seen from our account.
Vault: Collector Crypt
What it costs
Four lines, all of them numbers.
Handling is ours and flat. Postage is at cost. Grading is the grader’s. The vault’s own charge — the line nobody publishes plainly — is stated per trip above: free to go in at either vault, $7.69 measured to come out of Courtyard, $5.99 published to come out of Collector Crypt. You still get a written quote for your cards before anything is sent, because postage and the grader’s fee depend on what they are.
Handling
$25.00 for up to 10 cards, then $7.50 each
Submission paperwork, packing, tracking, and keeping you posted. Charged only on the extra cards past the tenth, never back across the batch.
Postage
At cost, insured, quoted before anything is sent
Swings from about $12 to $30 with declared value and the number of legs. Padding it into a flat fee would overcharge the cheap card and lose money on the dear one.
Grading
About $80.00 a card, paid to the grader
Only if the card is not already graded. The grader decides the outcome and the turnaround; we do not.
The vault's own fees
In: $0 at either vault · out: $7.69 Courtyard, $5.99 Collector Crypt
Intake is free at both, per their docs. Redemption is a shipping charge: Courtyard's is our own receipt for one card inside the US; Collector Crypt's is published, plus $3.00 for each extra card and more abroad. Some write-ups cite a further 2% at Collector Crypt that is not in its docs — if it appears, it goes in the quote.
The journey is two of our own cards making the trip — one bought as a Polygon token, one bought physically — with every cost written down as it is paid. Courtyard’s redemption line above is already one of those receipts; the Collector Crypt figures are their docs’ word until the cards land and turn them into receipts too.
Where it lands
Somewhere you can see.
A card handled on your behalf is vaulted under the venue’s own terms and lands in an account that is public. These are ours.
We do not hold cards long term and we are not a vault. Think of us as the part that tells you whether to start, and carries it through if you do.
Nothing on this page is investment advice, and no outcome is promised. Grading results are decided by independent third-party companies, vaulting is under the vault’s own terms, and neither we nor anyone else can predict a grade. Costs quoted are current estimates and move.