MLB Crypto Bobbleheads Have Sold For Thousands Of Dollars
/A 2018 digital bobblehead of then-Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper stamped on the Ethereum blockchain has sold for $7,300 (25 Eth), while a bobblehead of LA Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw sold for $3,500 (12.2 Eth).
The figures, bought and sold on the secondary market at MLBC.app, are a part of the MLB-licensed game MLB Champions, which was created by the Los Angeles-based Lucid Sight. The company is betting that people will start to understand digital scarcity and ownership.
During the 2018 MLB baseball season, Lucid Sight released MLB Crypto Baseball, a beta version of MLB Champions, a digital collecting game in which fantasy players buy and sell collectibles that earn rewards based on the results of real life baseball games. During the World Series in late October, the company will launch a new version of the continuously-evolving game.
Lucid Sight CEO Randy Saaf and his co-founders grew up in the 1980s. He recalls a time when collector card stores were common. “You could buy baseball cards from 7/11,” he said. Baseball cards date back to the 19th century, and have over the years been packaged with items like tobacco and Cracker Jacks.