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What Jupiter DEX launched on Monday

On Monday, July 13, 2026, Jupiter launched the beta version of Jupiter Gacha, an onchain platform where users can buy, open ("pull"), and trade real, professionally graded Pokémon and One Piece trading cards . The launch was announced via Jupiter's X account: "Real graded Pokémon & One Piece cards, fully onchain. Every pull is an authenticated slab, the same cards you chased as a kid, now tradeable on Jupiter" .

How Jupiter Gacha works

Jupiter Gacha lets users purchase digital packs that, when opened, reveal a random graded physical card from a pool called a "machine pool" — each pack tier has fixed, published odds per rarity tier . The physical cards are held by professional vaulting partners and tokenized as onchain assets on Solana, backed one-to-one by the physical slab . Users connect a Solana wallet, pay in USDC plus a small SOL fee, then drag-to-spin and tap to reveal their pull . The randomness is powered by Verifiable Random Function (VRF) for provably fair outcomes .

Season 1 runs for four weeks with a $100,000 rewards pool in free packs, including a battlepass system where every pack builds progress toward free pack claims and a leaderboard for top collectors .

Relationship to Collector Crypt

Jupiter Gacha is built in partnership with Collector Crypt, the Solana-native platform that pioneered the tokenization of graded physical trading cards . Collector Crypt operates the gacha infrastructure, including the VRF-based machine pools and vaulting .

Collector Crypt revenue and growth data:

• Since early December 2025, collectors sent over $622 million in stablecoins to Collector Crypt's wallet, each payment purchasing a random card pull .
• The platform hit $1.05 billion in cumulative transaction volume by May 20, 2026, with 215,000 tokenized TCG packs opened in a single week in June and over 50,000 physical card redemptions .
• Collector Crypt posted $4.75 million in weekly revenue in late June 2026 (a new all-time high per DeFiLlama) .
• Q2 2026 revenue more than doubled from Q1, climbing past $25 million, overtaking Pump.fun in single-day revenue for the first time .
• The platform reached 40,000 daily active users and $4.07M weekly protocol revenue in mid-June 2026 .
• The top seven tokenized trading card platforms generated $230 million in gacha sales in May 2026, up 7x year-over-year, with Solana capturing 64% of total volume .

Integration with Offerbook and Loopscale for borrowing

Jupiter's Offerbook (launched in public beta on May 27, 2026) is a permissionless, peer-to-peer lending market on Solana that allows users to borrow or lend USDC at fixed rates for 1–30 day terms using virtually any onchain asset as collateral — including tokens, NFTs, and graded TCG cards . Crucially, Offerbook has no price-based liquidations; if collateral value drops, the position stays intact as long as the borrower repays on time . This means a collector who pulls a rare Charizard slab can borrow USDC against it without risk of forced liquidation if card prices fluctuate.

The documentation explicitly lists that Offerbook accepts "any onchain assets on Solana," which includes the tokenized graded cards from Jupiter Gacha and Collector Crypt . Loopscale is integrated as a complementary lending layer, providing additional liquidity infrastructure for the same asset class, though specific Loopscale integration details with Gacha were not directly surfaced in the primary sources.

What this represents for Jupiter's strategic expansion

This launch marks Jupiter's deliberate expansion beyond traditional DeFi (swap aggregation, spot trading) into real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. The global trading card market is estimated in the multi-billions of dollars but historically suffers from:

• Low liquidity — cards are hard to price, hard to find buyers for, and slow to transact
• Trust issues — counterfeits, condition disputes, and grading fraud are endemic

Jupiter Gacha addresses both by tokenizing professionally graded, vaulted slabs that are provably authentic and immediately tradable on a liquid DEX . Every card is backed by a physical slab, users can redeem the physical card at any time, and the entire lifecycle — pull, trade, lend, borrow — happens onchain .

The three-product stack — Gacha (acquisition), Offerbook (lending), and Jupiter DEX (trading) — creates a full financial pipeline for a previously illiquid asset class. Collectors can pull cards, trade them instantly on Jupiter, or borrow USDC against them via Offerbook without liquidation risk . This is a direct application of DeFi primitives (AMMs, money markets) to solve real-world collectibles market friction, and it positions Jupiter as a vertically integrated onchain marketplace for physical collectibles, not just a swap aggregator.