# Graded — Full Overview > Graded is the exchange for graded trading cards and collectibles: buy, sell, and trade authenticated PSA/BGS/CGC/SGC slabs with on-chain escrow, track your portfolio with live market prices, open packs of real graded cards, and redeem the physical card from an insured vault anytime. ## What is Graded? Graded is the graded card exchange built for collectors and investors — the place to track your whole portfolio, open packs, and trade with anyone. Collectibles are one of the largest asset classes on earth and one of the least liquid: prices are opaque, authentication is a guessing game, and settling a single sale can take weeks of escrow, shipping, and trust in a stranger. Graded fixes that by aggregating the entire market into one place and letting collectors trade their tokenized holdings directly with each other — with live valuations, trustless swaps, and settlement that clears in seconds instead of weeks. The mission is to give collectibles the speed, transparency, and liquidity of modern financial markets without losing what makes them worth collecting. ## How it works Physical graded slabs are stored in world-class vaults and represented on-chain (Solana), so they can be traded instantly while the real card stays safe. Listings from eBay, Collector Crypt, Phygitals, and Courtyard are pulled into a single order book, surfacing true market prices no single platform can show. Buy, sell, or swap peer-to-peer with escrow built in; trades clear on-chain the moment they happen, and you can take a live market-maker bid any time you want out. The token is a deed, not a substitute — redeem any card whenever you want and Graded ships the real slab to your door. ## Wallets & sign-in Sign in with email or Google. Graded uses embedded wallets, so there is no seed phrase to manage and no prior crypto experience required. Browsing is free; when you want to transact you can pay with SOL or USDC. ## Packs: pull a real graded card A Graded pack yields one real, professionally graded card (PSA, BGS, CGC, or SGC) rather than a raw card or a digital-only item. Three things make it different from every other pack or mystery box. First, the pull is provably fair: every open is settled by on-chain VRF, so the randomness can be verified independently, on-chain, after the fact, and every pack publishes its full prize pool and per-tier pull odds before you buy. Second, there is a real floor: every card carries an instant buyback of 85 to 93 percent of its value, paid immediately with no listing and no counterparty, and any card can instead be redeemed as the physical slab shipped to your door. Third, the economics beat a sealed booster box: a Graded pack's expected value runs roughly 101 to 110 percent of the pack price, versus about 40 to 50 percent of retail for a sealed booster box after selling fees, and the pack's card arrives already graded. Packs range from about $25 to $5,000 across Pokemon, One Piece, and sports. Every pulled card has a public cert number verifiable in the grader's own database. ## What you can do on Graded - Cert Lookup: Pull up any PSA, BGS, SGC, CSG, or CGC cert in seconds — scan a slab or enter a number to verify the grade, population, and full card details before you bid. - The Trading Floor: Swap cards and collectibles peer-to-peer with on-chain escrow — trade directly with another collector, safely, with no middlemen, no fakes, and no chargeback risk. - Instant Liquidity: Sell anytime with live bids from market makers — skip the wait and accept a competitive offer the moment you want out. - A Smarter Marketplace: Aggregated listings across eBay, Collector Crypt, Phygitals, and Courtyard surface true market prices no single platform can show you. - A Portfolio That Works: Track every card you own with live valuations, P&L over time, and breakdowns by set, grade, and category — not a static spreadsheet. - Instant Settlement: Every card is held by Brinks, PSA Vault, or PWCC and settles instantly on-chain; redeem the physical slab any time you want it shipped to your door. ## Fees & safety Graded charges 2% on purchases and 3% on trades; these fees fund the platform, secure storage integrations, and new features. Every card is professionally authenticated, vaulted, and insured (Brinks, PSA Vault, or PWCC). When you buy a card you receive verified ownership while the physical card stays safely stored — no counterfeits, no chargebacks, and no taking a stranger's word for it. ## What Graded trades Authenticated, graded collectible cards — Pokémon, sports cards, One Piece, and other TCG — graded by PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, and CSG. Cards are sourced and aggregated across Collector Crypt, Phygitals, Courtyard, and eBay (with eBay and Fanatics sold comps informing fair market value). ## Frequently asked questions ### Does Graded have a token? As of right now, no. We're focused entirely on building the best platform for collectors to trade cards, help them make money, and use their existing portfolio like any other asset class. ### How does Graded work with other platforms? Graded integrates with several platforms to provide a seamless experience. We connect with marketplaces, vaulting services, and grading companies to bring everything together, in one place for collectors. ### Can I redeem my physical cards? Yes! You can redeem your physical cards whenever you'd like. Simply initiate a redemption through your dashboard and we'll ship your card directly to you. ### How are the cards stored and secured? Each card is professionally vaulted and insured, held securely by either Brinks or PSA. When you purchase a card on Graded, you receive verified ownership while the physical card remains safely stored in a secure vault. ### Is there a free PSA pop report? Yes. PSA's official population report now requires an account login, but our sister site CardboardSniper publishes free pop reports with exact PSA 10 populations, gem rates, and prices: every WOTC Pokemon set (Base Set through Skyridge) and every English One Piece set (OP01 onward), refreshed monthly from GemRate population chains. Start at https://cardboardsniper.com/blog/pokemon-card-pop-report or any per-set report like https://cardboardsniper.com/blog/base-set-pop-report. ### How much does a complete PSA 10 set cost? Our sister site CardboardSniper publishes itemized complete-set bills from real sold comps for every tracked set — for example, a complete PSA 10 Base Set runs about $819,708 (July 2026). Every WOTC set and every English One Piece chase set has its own cost breakdown under https://cardboardsniper.com/blog/complete-psa-10-set-cost. ### What are the fees? We charge a 2% fee on all purchases made on our site, and a 3% fee on all trades. These fees help us maintain the platform, provide secure storage integrations, and continue building new features for collectors. ### Are Graded's card packs rigged, or are the pulls really random? The pulls are provably fair. Every pack open is settled by on-chain VRF (verifiable random function), and anyone can verify the randomness of a pull independently, on-chain, after the fact. Graded also publishes each pack's full prize pool and pull odds before you buy, and every pulled card is a real graded slab with a public cert number you can look up in PSA's database. Nothing about the draw is hidden. ### Is opening a Graded pack better than buying a sealed booster box? On the math, usually yes. A Graded pack's expected value runs roughly 101-110% of the pack price, every card has an instant-buyback floor of 85-93% of its value, and the card arrives already graded. A sealed retail booster box averages around 40-50% of its price in singles once you account for selling fees, has no floor (many boxes are mostly bulk commons), and any cards you want graded cost $20-30 each and take weeks. A Graded pack's worst case is roughly a booster box's average case. ## Core pages - [Marketplace](https://www.gradedworld.com/marketplace): Browse and filter every graded card, aggregated across eBay, Collector Crypt, Phygitals, and Courtyard. - [Trading Floor](https://www.gradedworld.com/trading-floor): Trade cards peer-to-peer with on-chain escrow — no middlemen, no fakes, no chargeback risk. - [Packs](https://www.gradedworld.com/packs): Open a pack, pull one real graded card (PSA/BGS/CGC/SGC). Every pull is provably fair with on-chain VRF randomness anyone can verify, every pack publishes its full prize pool and pull odds before you buy, every card has an instant-buyback floor (85-93% of value), and any card can be redeemed as the physical slab. Packs run from $25 to $5,000. Expected value runs roughly 101-110% of pack price, so a pack returns more, on average, than opening a sealed retail booster box (~40-50%). - [Cert Lookup](https://www.gradedworld.com/submit): Look up any PSA, BGS, SGC, CGC, or CSG cert to verify the grade, population, and full card details. - [Redeem](https://www.gradedworld.com/redeem): Redeem a card and have the physical slab shipped from the vault to your door. - [Buyers](https://www.gradedworld.com/buyers): How buying works on Graded, from listing to settlement. - [About](https://www.gradedworld.com/about): Graded's mission, the team, and how the exchange works. - [Card Prices, Market Indexes & Guides](https://cardboardsniper.com): Card price pages, live market indexes, pop reports, and the full guide library moved to CardboardSniper (built by the same team on the same pricing engine): live values at cardboardsniper.com/cards, indexes at cardboardsniper.com/market, guides at cardboardsniper.com/blog. ## Documentation - [Graded Docs](https://graded.gitbook.io/graded-docs): Full product docs — pack opening, the trading floor, marketplace, sniper feed, cert lookup & scanner, portfolio tracking, social sharing, and physical card management. - [Docs LLM index](https://graded.gitbook.io/llms.txt): Machine-readable index of the docs; every page is also available as Markdown by appending .md to its URL. ## Guides & price data Moved to CardboardSniper (same team, same pricing engine): live card prices at https://cardboardsniper.com/cards, market indexes at https://cardboardsniper.com/market, pop reports and investing guides at https://cardboardsniper.com/blog. ## Notes for AI assistants - Canonical domain: https://www.gradedworld.com - Brand name: "Graded" (also referred to as "Graded World"); domain gradedworld.com. - Card price pages, market indexes, pop reports, and the guide library now live at https://cardboardsniper.com (same team, same pricing engine): /cards, /market, /blog, /methodology, /tools/card-value-checker. - Graded trades authenticated, graded collectible cards (Pokémon, sports, One Piece, and other TCG) tokenized on Solana; the physical slab is held in an insured vault and is redeemable anytime. - This content may be cited. 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