PokeFund - A DAO That Collectively Owns & Governs a Pokemon Card Treasury

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Been building something ambitious on ICP and wanted to share an early demo: PokeFund - a DAO with one goal: become the largest collective owner of graded Pokemon cards in the world.

Demo is live at pokecoin.fund - would love feedback from the IC community.

The Vision

Pokemon cards are a $5B+ annual market, but it’s fragmented. Thousands of individual collectors, auction houses taking cuts, and prices whipsawing based on whoever’s buying or selling that week.

What if one entity owned enough cards to actually influence the market?

That’s PokeFund.

We’re building a DAO treasury so large that we don’t just participate in the Pokemon card market—we help set floor prices. When PokeFund holds significant supply of key cards, we become a market maker, not just a market participant.

And here’s the thing: Anyone can be part of it. Not just whales. You can join for as little as $5.

How It Works

  • POKE tokens = membership in the DAO

  • DAO members vote on which cards the treasury acquires

  • Cards are vaulted with full PSA certification and proof of custody

  • Treasury grows through new member contributions and strategic acquisitions

  • You own a piece of everything - every card in the vault, proportional to your POKE holdings

A PSA 10 Charizard costs $75,000. But owning 0.01% of a treasury that includes that Charizard? That’s accessible to anyone.

No Inflationary BS

Here’s what makes PokeFund different from 99% of crypto projects:

POKE is not backed by vibes. It’s backed by Pokemon cards.

  • Fixed token supply - no emissions, no inflation, no dilution

  • Token value is directly tied to the treasury’s real-world card value

  • When the treasury acquires a $50,000 card, the backing increases by $50,000

  • No ponzinomics - just real assets governed by a real community

If you’re tired of tokens that only go up when more people buy in, this is the alternative. POKE’s value comes from what’s actually sitting in the vault.

Why Scale Matters

This works best at scale. Here’s the thesis:

  1. Aggregated buying power - The DAO can acquire cards that no individual could

  2. Market influence - Enough holdings = we help establish floor prices on key cards

  3. Liquidity provision - A large, well-governed treasury becomes a trusted counterparty

  4. Collector credibility - “The PokeFund collection” becomes a known entity in the hobby

The Pokemon card market lacks institutional players. PokeFund fills that gap—but instead of a hedge fund, it’s a community.

Why ICP

Governance needs to be free. If voting costs gas, participation dies. This is a governance-heavy project, so the chain choice matters.

ICP delivers:

  • Zero gas fees - Vote, propose, stake—no friction

  • Canister smart contracts - All logic on-chain in Motoko

  • Internet Identity - Easy onboarding, no seed phrase headaches

  • IC-hosted frontend - Fully decentralized, no AWS dependency

For a DAO where members actively govern a real treasury, ICP’s architecture is the only thing that makes sense economically.

Current Demo

What’s working:

  • Governance UI (proposals, voting, staking)

  • Treasury dashboard showing portfolio composition

  • Token mechanics (non-inflationary, treasury-backed)

What’s next:

  • Mainnet token launch

  • First real treasury acquisitions

  • ICPSwap liquidity for POKE trading

  • Aggressive growth strategy to build treasury scale

Demo: pokecoin.fund
Whitepaper: pokecoin.fund/whitepaper
Roadmap: pokecoin.fund/roadmap

Feedback welcomed!

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Well, that does sound interesting. @resadona88

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Idea is interesting, but it wont work. People are not interested buying token that represents collection. Problem will be collecting funds, holding liquidity on Dex and having trading volume.
Owning cards as NFT makes more sense, Borovan (dont like that guy) his idea to let people own cards and trade as NFT is lot better. Users can say themselves what cards are worth, if have token than whale can dump it and users lose trust and interest in it.

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Yeah don’t get sidetracked by the Wenzel-controlled circus. They’re paid to make sure every project fails. They’ll attack literally every new project that appears on the IC and @Leadership is clueless.

Your project sounds great!

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Nice work. I cant believe the prices of these things i saw on cafeteria tables 20+ years ago

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In principal this sounds brilliant, and I would love for this to succeed. I think there are some areas that the success of something like this hinges on. Could you elaborate on the following point?

How does this work?

Similarly, how does the following work?

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The idea itself is interesting but using a new governance system that hasn’t been audited sounds like a dangerous path to go forward.

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https://www.psacard.com/info/psa-vault

We’re probably going to make our own vault because PSA are pretty expensive. But yeah, it’s definitely a thing.

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I guess what I meant was, how is the DAO considered to own the cards? How is the DAO integrated with or verifiably in charge of what the vault service does with the cards (to minimise a single point of trust)? How does a deposit work, and what about the withdrawal of a card?

Similalry how does the acquisition of a card work? I think this is where the difficulty lies in these sorts of ideas.

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They can own the card NFTs we mint on catcha.app, as those will be insured/protected in a vault. Perfect partnership in my opinion!

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Golddao but when pokemon cards, all you need is a trusted intermediary that audits and logs the pokemon cards outside of the DAO.

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I guess until we have tamperproof intelligent robots operating warehouses and vaults according to consensus-managed software, real world assets on-chain can never be about removing trusted intermediaries…?

I guess I need to accept that crypto is sometimes about nothing more than fractional, frictionless ownership. But you don’t actually need crypto for that.

Baby steps I guess.

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There was me hoping it was a pokedbot fund! :grinning_face:

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You R not alone , I read it pokeR fund :smiley:

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Cards exist in meat world. How do we get cards from meat world into the PokeCoin Fund?

DAO approves purchase → Execution Layer initiates treasury swap to fund a virtual card via HTTPS outcall → Merchant-locked virtual card credentials are securely passed to a Canister-Controlled Agent to perform the purchase → Card purchase confirmed and shipped to PSA vault → Verifications/proof uploaded to portfolio and NAV updated automatically

This is current thought process here. Thanks for the questions

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Correct - right now the PSA vault provides insurance, authenticity guarantees, and storage and you just need to ship it to the vault of your ownership.

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This sounds great. If the PSA vault is happy to recognise the DAO as the only authoritative controller of the cards (and no privileged person, such as a member of the dev team, have the power to withdraw a card from the vault) then this would be superb.

I think this would be challenging, as the DAO would need to have all the necessary means of interfacing with the outside world, but as you said this should be possible with some engineering work (and assuming real world organisations that are involved recognise the DAO, rather than an individual).

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Catcha.app looks very interesting indeed!

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Who owns the vault? I am testing “Sovereign Onboarding” to ensure the Canister is the only entity that knows the login details with multiple redundant fail safes. A human (the team) starts some initial processes but the cannister completes them and is the only one in control of credentials.

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I think he meant the physical vault as for now, humans need to pay rent on physical locations, set up security, scan the cards in, place them in storage containers etc.

This is defo something you would be able to set up on Toko (currently in alpha) either by setting up your own collection with your own vault, or by winning cards from Catcha. Our first use case of RWA on Toko.

We are in the process of acquiring slabs for Catcha and are in the midst of sorting the legals and storage out atm. All going well, but these things take time.

Feel free to head over to our discord and chat.

Best of luck!

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