South Korean exchange Upbit has listed CARDS, the Solana token of tokenized trading card platform Collector Crypt. Upbit's announcement on 5 November 2026 added CARDS to its Korean won (KRW), BTC and USDT markets. On Solana's own exchanges, CARDS trading spiked within the hour of that notice, and the price then gave the gain back.
Upbit opens CARDS trading against Korean won, bitcoin and USDT
Upbit published its CARDS listing notice at 06:09 UTC on 5 November and set trading to open at 16:30 Korea time (07:30 UTC) the same day, which its English-language post gave as an estimated time. The KRW market lets Upbit's customers trade CARDS directly against the won, alongside pairs priced in bitcoin and USDT.
Collector Crypt confirmed at 07:37 UTC that CARDS was "now available for trading on @Official_Upbit", citing the token's Solana mint address. Collector Crypt sells packs of graded physical trading cards, such as Pokémon slabs, as tokens on Solana.
CARDS Solana DEX volume hit $10.7M in the hour of Upbit's notice
In the 05:00 UTC hour on 5 November, before the notice, CARDS traded about $103,000 on Solana decentralised exchanges (DEXs) and closed near $0.26, according to Solana Compass token data. The 06:00 hour, when Upbit posted, cleared $10.65 million across 40,665 trades and closed at about $0.31, roughly 20% higher.
The 07:00 hour, when Upbit trading opened, added another $5.0 million. Those two hours made up almost half of the day's $32.6 million in Solana DEX volume. That daily total was more than three times the busiest day of the previous two weeks, $9.7 million on 29 October. These figures cover on-chain Solana trading only. Upbit's own KRW volume is not in our data.
CARDS Solana DEX volume jumped from about $0.1M to $10.65M in the 06:00 UTC hour of Upbit's listing notice, and the 06:00 and 07:00 hours made up almost half of the day's $32.6M.
View on Solana Compass →CARDS price fell back below its pre-notice level after Upbit trading opened
CARDS faded through the rest of 5 November. Apart from a second push to about $0.30 in the 12:00 UTC hour, the hourly closes trended lower, and the day's final hour closed near $0.25, below the $0.26 the token held before Upbit's notice. By 09:22 UTC on 6 November, Solana Compass priced CARDS at about $0.23, down about 15% over 24 hours.
Ownership barely shifted through the event. The ten largest CARDS holder accounts held about 73% of supply on 25 October and about the same share on 6 November, per our holder snapshots. The token has more than 68,000 holders in total, and the largest accounts can include exchange custody and protocol wallets.
Collector Crypt fundamentals: record pack revenue and monthly CARDS unlocks
The listing lands after a record quarter for the app itself. Pine Analytics' Q3 2026 report put Collector Crypt's revenue at $433.5 million, with 21,876 wallets buying packs, twice the Q2 count. Spending was concentrated: the 548 wallets that spent $100,000 or more supplied 83% of the money, as our coverage of that report set out.
The same report lists team, advisor and seed allocations totalling 445 million CARDS that unlock monthly from 29 October 2026 to 29 July 2027, with 59 million tokens in the first release. Pine Analytics estimates that Collector Crypt's buyback bot retires about 1.1 million CARDS a month. On Solana, the DEX Raydium RAY$1.78+1.3% counted $1.1 billion in lifetime CARDS volume when the token turned one in August.
What to watch after the CARDS Upbit listing
The useful checks from here are on-chain. One is whether Solana DEX volume holds above its pre-listing range now that a won market exists. Another is whether the top-10 share moves as the monthly unlocks reach the market. You can follow both on the CARDS token page.
