Token Collecting Guides

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Sourcing Tokens

The major channels for buying arcade tokens: eBay, estate sales, antique shops, coin shows, collector forums, and the cectoken Trade Finder.

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What Drives Token Values

The five factors that move arcade token prices: rarity, condition, completeness, brand desirability, and market noise.

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Market Analysis What Is a Token? Crypto, AI, and the Real Thing

Cost Per Token, Compared: Per-Million Versus Per-Quarter

AI tokens are quoted per million, in two directions, for an object you keep for zero seconds. We quote in quarters, for an object you keep.

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Market Analysis What Is a Token? Crypto, AI, and the Real Thing

Can a Brass Token Be Rug-Pulled? A Risk Analysis

A rug pull needs an asset you do not control and a founder who can vanish. A token in your drawer satisfies neither. Cold storage is a mason jar.

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Market Analysis What Is a Token? Crypto, AI, and the Real Thing

The Original Stablecoin: Pegged 1 to 1 Since 1977

A stablecoin holds its peg through reserves, audits, and nervous reassurance. A brass token has held its peg since 1977 by being made of brass.

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Market Analysis What Is a Token? Crypto, AI, and the Real Thing

Cut Your Token Costs by 90%: Our Method Predates the Cloud

Every guide promises to cut your token costs by 90%. You can cut them 100%: buy the token once, then it is over.

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Market Analysis What Is a Token? Crypto, AI, and the Real Thing

Tokenomics, Literally: Supply, Burns, and Couch Cushions

Crypto engineers scarcity with emission schedules and burns. Arcade tokens did it honestly: a fixed mint and a burn rate set by storm drains.

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Selling and Trading Tokens

How to price for sale, write effective listings, work the trade channels, handle fees, and avoid common pitfalls.

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Top Rarities in the Catalog

Where the catalog's rarest and most valuable pieces concentrate by brand group, and how to find them using sort and filter.

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Market Analysis What Is a Token? Crypto, AI, and the Real Thing

Batch Processing Your Tokens: The 50%-Off Coin Bucket

The Batch API gives 50% off if you wait a day. We have run that program since the invention of the bulk coin purchase. We call it the bucket.

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Pricing Trends Over Time

The macro trends in arcade token pricing: supply attrition, collector demographics, visibility shifts, and per-brand-group patterns.

Updated Aug 2, 2026 Read more →