{"id":630254,"date":"2026-07-16T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/gambling-on-random-pokemon-cards-onchain-gagcha-hits-record-high-as-crypto-sinks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:52:57","slug":"gambling-on-random-pokemon-cards-onchain-gagcha-hits-record-high-as-crypto-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/gambling-on-random-pokemon-cards-onchain-gagcha-hits-record-high-as-crypto-sinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling on random Pok\u00e9mon cards: Onchain gagcha hits record high as crypto sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-mag-new-ath-for-onchain-gagchas-tokenized-collectibles.jpg\" alt=\"Gambling on random Pok\u00e9mon cards: Onchain gagcha hits record high as crypto sinks\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Users spent a record $324 million on onchain gacha in June, even as Bitcoin hit a 21-month low. The thrill of scoring a top Pokemon card from a random pack is becoming big business<\/p>\n<p>June 2026 was brutal for the crypto market. Bitcoin (BTC) fell more than 20%, <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/markets\/bitcoin-bounces-off-21-month-low-but-leverage-data-signals-caution-was-57k-the-bottom\"><span>hitting a 21-month low<\/span><\/a>, while spot Bitcoin ETFs saw <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-etf-4-5-billion-outflow-june-worst-on-record\"><span>a record $4.5 billion in outflows<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That did not stop users from <a href=\"https:\/\/blockworks-research.beehiiv.com\/p\/pack-economics\"><span>spending<\/span><\/a> a record $324 million on onchain gacha during the month, according to Blockworks Research. A year earlier, the monthly figure was closer to $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>Spending hit a new all time high in the depths of a bear market. While crypto prices were tanking, people were opening more and more packs of tokenized Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2014 driven by the thrill, the hope of a profit or the urge to expand a collection.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an entire randomized Real World Asset (RWA) sector that\u2019s flown under the radar\u2026 until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/features\/pokemon-cards-as-rwas-gacha-spending-hits-records-as-crypto-sinks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users spent a record $324 million on onchain gacha in June, even as Bitcoin hit a 21-month low. The thrill of scoring a top Pokemon card from a random pack is becoming big business June 2026 was brutal for the crypto market. Bitcoin (BTC) fell more than 20%, hitting a 21-month low, while spot Bitcoin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-630254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}