Pokémon Cards Surge 29% in Three Months, Outpacing Stocks and Bitcoin

Pokémon cards have surged 29% over the past three months, outperforming the S&P 500 while Bitcoin has fallen roughly 20%, according to Bloomberg.
The boom is increasingly being fueled by digital trading platforms tied to physical collectibles.
Traders spent about $290 million in July on blind-box NFT machines that award random vaulted Pokémon cards, with some individual cards valued at as much as $250,000.
The surge highlights how speculation is spreading beyond traditional markets into tokenized and digitally traded collectibles.