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MarketCards MintBox โ€” Launch Announcement

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ENGLISHJun 04, 2026
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MarketCards introduces MintBox, a verifiable mechanism for the public issuance of tokenized interest in rare cards. Using USDC and a BTC-price-based draw, users can participate in the first allocation starting June 4.

Our

first

MintBox opens for participation on June 4. It's a public, transparent, and verifiable

issuance

on MarketCards โ€” releasing the Tokenized Interest of rare cards we sourced ourselves (all one-of-ones), 100% publicly, to everyone who participates.

1. What is MintBox

MintBox is the mechanism for the first public issuance of Tokenized Interest. Once a card or Card Collection is tokenized on MarketCards, it can be opened for participation through MintBox. You participate with USDC, and the platform allocates Tokenized Interest to winning users through a public, verifiable draw. Any non-winning portion of USDC becomes claimable after results are published and must be claimed manually.

The mechanism is built as Box + Ticket + Draw Factor, so every allocation does three things at once:

  • Open โ€” all card information, valuation, and participation parameters are disclosed before the MintBox begins.
  • Transparent โ€” exactly which Tokenized Interest, and how much, sits in each Box can be looked up by Box number before it starts.
  • Verifiable โ€” the Draw Factor that decides the draw is generated from the public Binance BTC/USDC spot price at a specified moment, and anyone can recompute the result.

Key Information

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2. Rules & Mechanics

1) Participation rules & key timestamps

  • Commitment unit โ€” the amount must be an integer multiple of the Box Price. With a 10 USDC Box Price, commit in multiples of 10 (e.g., 10, 20, 50, 110โ€ฆ).
  • Ticket issuance โ€” for every full Box Price (10 USDC) committed, the system issues 1 Ticket. Commit 100 USDC โ†’ 10 Tickets.
  • Target Raise โ€” if total commitments don't reach the target by the close of the period, all committed USDC is fully refunded.
  • Key dates: June 4, 08:00 UTC โ€” participation opens June 8, 00:00 UTC โ€” participation closes June 8, 08:00 UTC โ€” secondary-market trading opens

2) The Ticket mechanism & how winning works

Each Ticket is the only entry into the draw, and each independently enters the final draw and ranking:

  • Ticket number โ€” a 4-digit number (e.g., 3827), randomly generated and shown the moment you complete your commitment.
  • Generation time โ€” each Ticket records its timestamp, used as the tie-breaker within the same hit group.

Draw & allocation (after participation closes):

  1. Draw Factor generation โ€” take the Binance BTC/USDC spot price at the specified moment (June 8, 00:00 UTC), rounded to two decimals. Extract the tens digit, ones digit, first decimal, second decimal, concatenated into a 4-digit Draw Factor. Example: BTC price 77,795.60 โ†’ tens 9 / ones 5 / first decimal 6 / second decimal 0 โ†’ Draw Factor = 9560
  2. Digit-by-digit matching โ€” each Ticket is compared to the Draw Factor position by position; a digit counts as a hit only on an exact same-position match. More hits = higher tier. Example: Draw Factor 9560 vs Ticket 3560 โ†’ โœ—โœ“โœ“โœ“ โ†’ 3/4 hits
  3. Ticket ranking โ€” first by number of hits (4/4 > 3/4 > 2/4 > 1/4 > 0/4); within the same group, ranked by commitment time โ€” earlier ranks higher.

3) Over-subscription allocation logic

Once ranking is done, Tickets map to Box numbers in order:

  • With 30,000 Boxes, Tickets ranked 1 through 30,000 receive the corresponding Box โ€” rank #1 gets Box #1, rank #2 gets Box #2, and so on.
  • Tickets ranked beyond 30,000 are non-winning; the corresponding commitment becomes claimable manually after results are published.

In short: when demand is high and Tickets exceed 30,000, the Tickets with more hits and earlier commitment times win first โ€” the rest are refunded in full.

4) Lucky Digit (referral boost, optional)

To reward sharing: for each invitee who successfully participates in this MintBox with a commitment of at least 100 USDC, the inviter earns 1 Lucky Digit. A digit upgraded to a Lucky Digit no longer needs to match โ€” any number 0โ€“9 counts as a hit.

  • Lucky Digits go only to the inviter, fill Tickets in generation order, and unlock in a fixed order (1st digit โ†’ 2nd โ†’ 3rd). The 4th digit always stays an exact-match digit.
  • Max 3 Lucky Digits per Ticket. Lucky Digits create no new Tickets and don't change the total number of Boxes โ€” they only affect the hit result of existing Tickets.

Lucky Digit improves your chance of winning; it

does not guarantee any allocation result

, and should not be understood as investment income or a promise to preserve principal.

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This image is for process illustration purposes only.

  1. Cards, Links & Attachments

This MintBox features 68 cards. A few standout cards are shown below โ€” head to the website for the full lineup:

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See all 68 cards โ†’ https://market.cards/ipo/detail?campaign_id=24

For full openness and verifiability, all materials are available on the MintBox page on our website:

  • Full card issuance parameters & valuations โ€” the issuance parameters and valuation for all 68 cards are disclosed card-by-card on the MintBox page.
  • Box allocation & token details โ€” the ranked allocation rule for numbers 1 to 30,000 during participation, plus the Tokenized Interest (token) details for each Box number, downloadable via the button on the MintBox page, so anyone can verify afterward.

4. Timeline

  • June 4, 08:00 UTC โ€” Event starts (participation opens)
  • June 8, 00:00 UTC โ€” Event ends (participation closes; results phase begins)
  • June 8, 08:00 UTC โ€” Trading opens (Tokenized Interest enters the secondary market)

5. Restricted Jurisdictions

To meet legal and sanctions requirements, the Service is not offered to โ€” and may not be accessed or used by โ€” persons or entities in the following (see Terms of Service ยง2.2 for the full text):

  • Mainland China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan)
  • Absolute-prohibition countries (domestic law fully bans crypto): Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Nepal, Qatar, Tunisia
  • Comprehensively sanctioned / embargoed regions (per OFAC, the UN, etc.): Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea, and the so-called Donetsk / Luhansk "People's Republics"
  • Plus any other country/region under similar sanctions, and any person or entity on a sanctions / restricted-party list (OFAC, UN, EU, UK, or similar authorities)

Full list governed by the platform's Terms of Service.

MarketCards ยท Own a piece of the players you love. Open, transparent, verifiable โ€” that's how we do a first issuance.

Risk note: Sale Valuation in MintBox is the platform's issuance price, not a representation of a card's true market value or expected returns. Secondary-market prices are driven by factors such as card rarity, player performance, and market liquidity, and can go up or down. Please participate based on your own judgment.

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