I had never heard of a Gacha before but I was intrigued when Collector Crypt sent an announcement about the Elite Pokémon Gacha Machine. I forwarded it to Tyler to investigate.

Collector Crypt Gacha Machine website showing six graded Pokemon cards available as prizes, with an Elite Pokemon Gacha Pack priced at 50 tokens on the right.

The gist is you pay a fixed amount and get a random card with a minimum value. Collector Crypt does this all on the Solana blockchain. We decided to give it a whirl and pulled a Venusaur Holo (1996) with a near-mint 8 PSA rating.

A PSA-graded Japanese Venusaur holographic Pokémon card with a rating of NM-MT 8 from 1996.

Tyler digs Collector Crypt because they have good Pokémon cards. I dig it for that and that it is a great use of NFT’s and smart contracts. The transaction for this Gacha machine is a complicated one with seventeen different steps.

We will likely “burn” the NFT and have Collector Crypt ship us the nearly 30 year old card.