Fanable
Fanable is a Web3 marketplace for buying, selling, and trading collectibles in both physical and digital form, with a focus on Pokémon and other trading cards, comic books, and related memorabilia. The platform digitizes physical collectibles and stores the originals in a vault operated by the security firm Brink's, pairing custody of the physical item with an on-chain record that can be traded through the platform. Fanable is developed by Ethernal Labs Inc., and it operates across iOS, Android, and web applications under the tagline "Own the Physical. Trade the Digital. Vault & Sell."[1][2][3]
Overview
Fanable positions itself as a bridge between physical collectibles and digital ownership, allowing users to "securely vault, trade, and redeem your grails anytime."[2] The core model is that a collector submits a graded physical item, Fanable digitizes it and secures the original in a Brink's vault, and the digitized representation can then be managed, bought, or sold through the app while the physical object remains in insured storage. Fanable describes the vault as "state-of-the-art" and "fully insured," and says items can be redeemed at any time and delivered to the owner's doorstep.[4][5]
The company frames the platform as "backed by advanced blockchain technology," which it says provides transparency and security while enabling collectors to earn royalties on future sales of their items.[5] Fanable states it supports collectors of graded items authenticated by third-party grading services including CGC, PSA, WATA, and Beckett.[6] Its self-reported figures, presented on the Bitget dApp directory, describe a "rapidly growing user base" with more than 20,000 sales transactions and a claimed 100% monthly growth rate.[1]
Platform and Services
Fanable groups its offering around vault custody, a marketplace, curated releases, and redemption. Collectors can store graded collectibles in the Brink's vault, digitize them for online management, and sell them, and Fanable markets the arrangement as protecting items from damage, loss, and theft.[6] The company states there are no storage fees and that shipping for submissions is free.[6]
Two recurring resale mechanisms distinguish the platform. Fanable states that owners earn a 2% royalty on every resale of a vaulted collectible until the item is redeemed, a feature it markets as "Earn Royalties Forever."[6] Separately, an "Instant Buyback Option" lets users sell collectibles back to Fanable immediately at a stated 70–90% of fair market value.[6] The platform also runs a referral promotion in which a user who invites a friend and the friend both receive between $5 and $25 in credit after the friend's first purchase.[2]
Beyond the secondary marketplace, Fanable sells curated "drops"—themed, limited releases of collectibles, frequently structured as mystery cases. Its homepage lists numerous drops marked "sold out," including "Fantasti-Case," "Vault Villains," "Up, Up, and Away!," "Variant Vault," "Mutant Mayhem," "Spider-Mania," "From Gotham to Metropolis," "Galaxies Far, Far Away," "Indie Legends," "Signed & Sealed: The Autograph Collection," and "Marvel Madness."[2] Details for several drops have been published through Fanable's Medium publication, "Inside the Vault." The "Indie Legends" release was dated May 15, 2025 at 2 PM ET, priced at $75 per mystery case across 100 total cases, and "The Comics & Crypto Curated Collection" was dated April 3, 2025 at 2 PM ET, priced at $99 per mystery case across 75 total cases.[7] The publication describes itself as "a collector's hub for drop announcements, stories, and insights from the vault," powered by Fanable and highlighting comics, cards, games, toys, and videos.[8]
Fanable has also promoted physical and in-app "kiosks" for revealing collectibles, describing them as "24/7 collectible kiosks" that "reveal authenticated collectibles in seconds." Kiosk-branded features on its site and social channels include a "Flash Sale Kiosk" and a Pokémon-themed "Pokiosk."[3][2]
Supported Collectibles
Fanable's site organizes support around three headline categories—comics, trading cards, and home videos—while its documentation describes a broader range, listing "comic books, trading cards, home videos, video games and more," and its app additionally names VHS tapes, DVDs, and toys.[2][5][6] Comic inventory shown on the platform has spanned Marvel and DC titles such as issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool, Wolverine, Batman, and Superboy, while card inventory has centered heavily on modern and vintage Pokémon sets.[2] The Medium publication similarly presents Fanable's item types as comics, cards, games, toys, and videos, alongside the labels "Secured," "Insured," and "Accessible."[8]
Mobile Application
The Fanable app, titled "Fanable – Collectibles Store," is published by Ethernal Labs Inc. and distributed free of charge through the App Store and Google Play.[6][4] On Apple's App Store it is categorized under Shopping, requires iOS 15.1 or later, occupies 117.3 MB, and carries a 16+ age rating with content indicators that include Loot Boxes, Contains Unrestricted Web Access, Messaging and Chat, User-Generated Content, and Infrequent Guns or Other Weapons.[6] The listing shows version 2.1.7 with a release note of "Bug fixes and performance improvements," and a rating of 5.0 out of 5 from three ratings. The developer's privacy disclosure lists Purchases, Contact Info, and Diagnostics as data not linked to the user, with a section for data linked to the user present but unpopulated in the visible listing.[6] Fanable describes the app as built for collectors who value security, simplicity, and transparency, and markets the ability to carry a collection anywhere for "peace of mind and control anytime, anywhere."[4]
COLLECT Token and Rewards
Fanable has introduced a native token called COLLECT, presented as a means to strengthen community engagement and governance within its ecosystem. The token is described as supporting community-driven rewards, trading incentives, and future governance opportunities.[1] To distribute the token, Fanable partnered with the Collect Foundation to launch a point-farming campaign ahead of the token's launch, framed as bringing new utility to the collectibles economy.[1]
The point-farming mechanism operates through a dedicated rewards site at points.fanable.io, where Fanable accounts and compatible crypto wallets can be associated so that eligible marketplace activity and other actions accrue points toward a planned airdrop campaign.[9] Based on the available public sources, Fanable had not yet publicly detailed the precise parameters of the COLLECT token airdrop, and no token generation event, initial coin offering, or exchange listing details were specified.[1]
COLLECT is implemented as a BEP-20 token on the BNB Smart Chain, with the primary contract deployed at 0x4b3d30992f003c8167699735f5ab2831b2a087d3.[12] Project descriptions state that COLLECT is intended to function as a utility and governance token within the Fanable ecosystem, including uses such as facilitating marketplace activity and rewards, staking to unlock enhanced benefits, and participating in governance over aspects of the platform's future development and incentive design.[13][14][15]
Funding
In October 2025 Fanable reported securing $11.5 million from a group of investors. The round included Michael Rubin's collectibles and merchandise company Fanatics, the blockchain payments company Ripple, Steel Perlot, the Ethereum scaling network Polygon, Borderless, and Morningstar.[1] Fanable stated the capital was intended to accelerate its growth and expand the platform's ecosystem, with development spanning platform enhancements, global expansion, and the introduction of additional Web3-native features. The funding round and the COLLECT token point-farming campaign were highlighted as the project's most recent major announcements.[1] Public sources do not detail the individual founders of Fanable or their backgrounds beyond identifying Ethernal Labs Inc. as the developer.[1]
Ecosystem and Community Tracking
Third-party services have grown around Fanable's marketplace activity. A community-run site, the "Fanable Hub" on DC3 Wiki, describes itself as a central hub for tracking Fanable marketplace activity, including real-time mints, sales data, and drop information for DC and MLB collectibles. It operates two active tools—"Fanable Mints," which monitors real-time minting activity across Fanable collections, and "Fanable Sales," which surfaces marketplace sales data and price history for DC and MLB items.[10] The hub also offers "Discord Kiosk Notifications" that alert subscribers when Fanable kiosk cases and packs drop or when supply levels change; these alerts are gated as a Patreon-supporter benefit available through a private Discord community, and the page advises visitors to consult Fanable.io directly for the most accurate information.[10]
Fanable maintains its own presence across social and documentation platforms, including an X account under @FanableApp that publishes drop announcements and collectible-market commentary, a Farcaster account describing the project as a Web3 marketplace for Pokémon, comic books, and collectibles, and a documentation site published with GitBook.[3][11] The GitBook documentation is structured for both human readers and AI agents, exposing pages as Markdown by appending ".md" to their URLs and offering a natural-language query mechanism through an "ask" query parameter that returns direct answers with excerpts and sources.[5]
Security and Audits
Fanable presents security as a core feature of its model, emphasizing that physical collectibles are stored in a Brink's-operated vault described as "state-of-the-art" and "fully insured," with items held under professional custody until redemption.[4][5] The company also highlights its use of blockchain infrastructure to create transparent on-chain records of ownership and transactions, which it positions as enhancing security and traceability for vaulted items.[5] Public sources reviewed for this article do not document any third-party smart contract security audit of Fanable's COLLECT token contracts or any major security incident involving the platform.
