Hoard Market is built on top of the Vault. A piece is identified, condition-graded and checked against the Registry before it can be listed, so what you are reading is a record with a price on it, not a description someone typed.
Hoard Market is the marketplace inside The Hoard. Listings are created from pieces already recorded in a Vault and verified against the Hoard Registry, which means condition, references and ownership history are established before sale. Listing is free, one flat fee applies on a completed sale, and both asking prices and sold comps are public.
Each category carries its own condition standard, its own reference data, and its own registry checks.
Vintage and modern references, movement and service history on record.
$400 – $250,000+Graded slabs and raw singles, population data and comps attached.
$5 – $500,000+Deadstock and worn pairs, size runs, tags and box condition graded.
$80 – $40,000+Keys, first appearances and full runs, slab certification carried through.
$10 – $1,000,000+Pressings and matrix numbers, sleeve and media graded separately.
$15 – $30,000+Game-used, signed and team-issued, ownership chain on the record.
$25 – $2,000,000+Mint marks, grades and strike detail, holder verified against the registry.
$3 – $5,000,000+Editions, artist proofs and originals, edition number on record.
$50 – $10,000,000+Reference bands across categories, drawn from completed sales on the registry. Every listing shows its own price and its own comp history.
Collecting is not a niche anymore. It is one of the largest consumer markets in the world, and the fastest-growing part of it is the part that moves online, where nobody can check what they are buying.
The money moved online faster than the verification did. Every platform solved distribution. None of them solved the record.
These are the numbers every marketplace in the category would rather not put on a landing page.
A third of consumers name fraud as the reason they will not start collecting at all. That is not a fraud problem, it is a market-size problem: the ceiling on this industry is the number of people willing to risk a stranger's photograph.
Not because we found a cheaper way to run a marketplace. Because we changed what a listing is.
Card sales on eBay carry a 13.25% final value fee up to $7,500, charged on the item, the shipping and the sales tax. Promoted Listings stack on top, so a 5% ad rate puts you near 18.6%. Then per-order fees, then insertion fees past your free allowance.
Listing is free and one flat fee applies on a completed sale. No listing fees, no photo fees, no category surcharges, no paying to be seen in your own category. Your Vault record does the describing, so you are not retyping specs into a form.
You are buying a description and a photo. Verification, if it happens, is a 20 to 45 day queue you enter after your money is gone. Condition is the seller's opinion. Price history is whatever a third-party comp site scraped.
The registry check runs before the listing goes live, not after you pay. Condition, reference and ownership history come off the Vault record. Sold comps are public and attached to the piece, so you can see what it has actually traded for.
Every platform monetizes the transaction. If you did not buy, you were not there. Fans spend 95 minutes a day inside live shows and walk away with nothing to show for it unless they won the auction.
Attendance is the record. Check in at a show and a numbered coin mints to your account whether you bought anything or not. Being in the room is the thing we keep, and it has a physical twin.
Sources · Grand View Research, Collectibles Market Report 2026–2033 (market size, CAGR, vintage share). PSA 2025 Fraud Report (intercepted fraud, year-over-year change). Business Research Insights, Collectible Trading Cards Market 2026 (dispute composition, online share, grading volume). Global Growth Insights, Trading Cards Market (suspect resale share, fraud as barrier). Whatnot State of Live Selling 2026 (live GMV, session time). eBay Q2 2026 (Live GMV growth). Competitor fee rates as published January–July 2026 and subject to change; verify current schedules before relying on them.
Gideon reads the piece and fills the record: reference, condition, grade, ownership.
The record is matched against the Registry. Flagged and misrepresented pieces never reach the floor.
Set your ask. The verified record travels with the listing, and the sale price becomes a public comp.
No listing fees, no photo fees, no category surcharges, no premium placement auctions. Your storefront inherits your account badge, and your completed sales build the comp history buyers read.
Hoard Market is the marketplace layer of The Hoard. Every listing is created from a piece already recorded in a fan's or vendor's Vault and checked against the Hoard Registry, so the item, its condition and its ownership history are established before it goes up for sale.
Listings inherit a verified record instead of starting from a photo and a description. Condition, references, grades and ownership history come from the Vault entry, and the registry check blocks pieces flagged as stolen or misrepresented.
Listing is free. A single flat seller fee applies on completed sales, with no listing fees, no photo fees and no category surcharges.
Yes. Asking prices and completed sale prices are public on every listing, and sold comps stay visible on the item's record so the next buyer can see what the piece has actually traded for.
The global collectibles market was valued at $320.3 billion in 2025 and is estimated at $335.7 billion in 2026, projected to reach $535.5 billion by 2033 at a 6.9% compound annual growth rate, according to Grand View Research. Vintage collectibles held the largest share at 39.9% in 2025.
Fee structure, and where the work goes. Trading-card sales on eBay carry a 13.25% final value fee up to $7,500, charged on the item, shipping and sales tax, with Promoted Listings stacking on top. Live-selling platforms typically charge 8% standard, or 4 to 6% on some collectible categories. Hoard Market charges nothing to list and one flat fee on completed sales, with no photo fees, category surcharges or paid placement, and the listing inherits your existing Vault record instead of asking you to write a new description.
The registry check runs before a listing goes live, not after payment. PSA intercepted more than $200 million in projected market value of counterfeit and altered collectibles in 2025, a 45.3% increase year over year, and 37% of reported online trading disputes involve counterfeit or altered items while 29% involve misrepresented condition. On Hoard, condition, reference and ownership history come from the Vault record, and sold comps stay public and attached to the piece.
A numbered coin. Attendance is the mint trigger, so checking in at an event records you whether or not you purchase. Every other marketplace in the category monetizes only the transaction, which means fans who show up and buy nothing leave with no record of having been there.
Fans, stores, vendors and brands. The account type shows as a badge on the listing so buyers know who they are dealing with.
Free to join. Founding members get Pro all summer and keep their number for life.