Courtyard.io Review 2026: Free Vaulting, 90% Buyback, 0% Fees
Free insured vaulting, a guaranteed 90% buyback and no seller fees make Courtyard the best place here to hold a card. The gap: it publishes no pack odds.
Courtyard has the best terms in this guide for what happens after you pull a card. Free insured vaulting with no storage fee, a guaranteed 90% fair-market-value buyback on every pack, a marketplace that charges sellers nothing, and physical redemption whenever you want it. If the other sites are built to keep you ripping, Courtyard is built to let you hold.
Who is behind it
Courtyard Inc. was founded in 2021 and is based in New York City. It went through Y Combinator's W22 batch. The co-founders are Nicolas le Jeune (CEO) and Paulin Andurand (CTO).
It raised a $7 million seed in 2022, then a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner Ventures in July 2025, with NEA, Y Combinator, ParaFi Capital and others participating. At that announcement the company reported growth from roughly $50,000 of monthly GMV in January 2024 to about $50 million a month — the steepest growth curve of anyone in this guide.
How it works
Courtyard vaults physical graded cards, mints a token on Polygon representing each one, and lets those tokens trade on its marketplace. Packs are the front door: buy one, reveal a card, and the token lands in your account with the physical slab sitting in the vault behind it. You can redeem it for the physical card at any time.
The blockchain layer is doing a specific and narrow job here — proving ownership and provenance, and allowing instant transfer without shipping a card twice. It is not proving the pack odds, and it's worth being precise about that distinction since the marketing around tokenization often blurs it.
You can also send in cards you already own from eBay, PWCC or PSA to be vaulted and tokenized, which makes Courtyard useful even if you never buy a pack.
The numbers
- Entry price: $10 Pokémon Basic Pack, running up to a $2,500 Legend Pack. Watch boxes go considerably higher.
- Buyback: every pack comes with a guaranteed 90% fair-market-value instant buyback. Courtyard sets FMV, but the guarantee is published rather than discretionary, which is rarer than it should be.
- Marketplace: 0% seller fees, and no sales tax on transactions between vaulted items.
- Vaulting: free and fully insured, with no storage fee.
- Shipping: worldwide, invoiced at cost plus applicable taxes for your location.
Cards are PSA, CGC or BGS slabs. Coverage runs across Pokémon, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer and One Piece, plus watches, comics and ancient coins.
What else is in the vault
Courtyard is not only a card platform. Alongside Pokémon, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer and One Piece, the vault holds watches, comics and ancient coins. Watch boxes have been reported in the $5,000 to $11,000 range, which is a very different product from a $10 Pokémon pack and worth knowing exists before you wander into it.
The send-in feature is the underrated part of the account. If you already own slabs, Courtyard will vault and tokenize cards shipped in from eBay, PWCC or PSA. That turns a shoebox of graded cards into inventory you can sell instantly at 0% commission without packing a single mailer — useful even if you never buy a pack here.
Where it falls short
No published per-pack odds. This is the significant gap, and it is what keeps Courtyard at three rather than higher. A tokenized platform proving ownership cryptographically while asking you to trust the draw is an odd combination.
Support friction. Google Play reviews document identity-verification delays running five days or more, payment method failures, and shipping delays with thin tracking. The Android app sits around 4.1 stars across roughly 2,900 reviews — respectable, not spotless.
You need a wallet-shaped mental model. Nothing here requires crypto expertise, but if the idea of a token standing in for your card bothers you, the friction is real even though the underlying slab is not.
Who it's for
A good fit if you intend to hold rather than flip, you want the best storage economics available, you sell often enough that a 0% marketplace fee compounds, or you already own slabs you'd like vaulted and liquid without shipping them to a buyer.
Look elsewhere if published odds are a requirement (Repackz), you want everything inside one traditional US company with its own grading arm (Arena Club), or you want cash in a bank account the same day rather than a balance.
The verdict
Third, and the best choice in this guide for a collector who plans to keep things. Institutional backing, the strongest published buyback guarantee here, free insured storage and zero seller fees is a combination nobody else matches. Publish odds and it would be arguing for first.