CARTE

CARTE is a digital trading card platform for independent artists under Manifold. Users reserve and buy card packs, then keep one of four cards and burn the rest, creating scarcity by design; artwork is licensed from the credited artist, and both pack sales and secondary royalties flow back to creators through the contract.

Cards are issued as NFTs on Ethereum and trade on Manifold Gallery, OpenSea and Blur, with the burn mechanic steadily shrinking the surviving supply of each card. The platform excludes AI-generated imagery and treats human authorship as a condition of issuance, releasing packs in themed drops that collectors enter through a waitlist. It moves the pack-opening and secondary market of physical trading cards on-chain, weighted toward curation and royalty distribution. Packs are grouped by theme and artist, rarity is fixed at mint, secondary prices carry no floor or cap, and every resale is publicly recorded.