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Life & fun · November 1, 2022

Digital Trading Cards (DTC)

Create. Collect. Play. Trade.

Digital Trading Cards (DTC) launched on November 1, 2022 with 2 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

COLLECT • PLAY • TRADE | Digital Trading Cards (DTC) Digital Trading Cards (DTC) marketplace is a first cross-chain and blockchain-agnostic collectibles platform. Collect. Play. Trade.

Digital trading cards explained: what they are, their history from the 1995 patented concept (US 6,061,656) to today, and where to collect and trade them. The independent home and reference for digital trading cards.

Before NFTs. Before Top Shot. Before the apps. The concept of unlockable, tradeable, secured digital collectibles was documented in a U.S. patent with a 1995 priority date. This is its home. In 1995, the concept of collecting, unlocking, and trading digital collectibles secured by coded keys was set down in a United States patent — "Computer-Based Trading Card System and Method," granted as U.S. Patent 6,061,656. It described digital cards tied to interactive games and network downloads, with a key mechanism that became inoperative after use to prevent duplication — the same digital-scarcity problem the industry would spend the next thirty years rediscovering, eventually through blockchains…from digitaltradingcards.com

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