Just received this email from Keepr. Bummed out. Always thought of Parkside as David vs Goliath. Wondering who will be the NFT partner if Parkside is keeping the physical. Keepr did a nice job with their NFT gamifcation using nfts to redeem physical cards. They have a loyal following. Don't have many NFT's on Keepr, but here are two of my favorites.
" With the NWSL trading card license transitioning away from Parkside after the 2025 season, we unfortunately cannot continue to sell NWSL digital products. We have made the difficult decision to discontinue the Keepr NFT platform. This wasn't an easy call as Keepr has been a passion project for us and it exists because of the community that believed in digital collectibles alongside us.

You will have until February 28, 2026 to save a copy of your card artwork to your phone or computer by clicking on the Share button. Your collectible proof of ownership will still safely secure through your Dapper Wallet and on the blockchain, just like any other NFT you own. While the Keepr platform itself will no longer be active, your assets remain yours.

If you have any unredeemed collectibles, you must submit them by February 28, 2026 or you forfeit your opportunity to redeem the collectible for a physical card.

We're incredibly grateful to you for being part of this journey over the past three years. Your support, enthusiasm, and belief in what we were building meant more to us than we can fully express.

If you'd like to continue exploring digital cards, you can visit parksidechecklist.com. And if physical trading cards are your thing, we'd love to see you at parksidecards.com 

Thank you for collecting with us, and for helping make Keepr something special.

-All of us at Keepr"

I am pretty frustrated at the lack of soccer card specialists at card shows. I even tried having my own soccer table at a show. Soccer collectibles are like a needle in a haystack at card shows. I am thinking of doing something different. I am thinking about putting together a meeting where we have a guest speaker and about 25 people by invite only. Folks could network and make trades etc. Run it more as an association meeting vs a card show. Thinking of doing it on March 28 (Saturday) when US plays Belgium in a warmup friendly for the World Cup. I would have it at a soccer indoor soccer plex where we can kick the ball around for an hour (maybe a little Rondo), then have the meeting for an hour, then closing by watching the US vs Belgium game on their big screens. Use the meeting to get feedback for a bigger event during the World Cup. I am in the Bay Area. Anyone else running a meeting like this idea specific to one collecting channel? Would love to hear back from the pros in this group.

Massive news on this new collaboration.
I recently wrote a post on the autobiography of Lego. They just keep adding better and better chapters. Lego, The King of the Collab - Stori behind the Cllctbl.

Fresh off the holidays, we jump into the "official" Bad Egg holiday. In the spirit of PSA Day 10/10 Day on October 10, the Panini Bad Egg collectors and community suggested to Panini and Toikido, that maybe January 2 (1/2) should be Bad Egg Day. Panini listened and with Panini Discord Mod NBAQueen working her magic, today is being celebrated as Bad Egg Day on Panini NFT platform. As I mentioned on my previous post on Bad Eggs, the collectors of the Prizm Bad Eggs have adopted 12 as the jersey number for a Bad Egg collectible. Bad Eggs S2 - Going Global. Panini NFT is celebrating Bad Egg Day all day featuring 9 games with packs being rewarded, as well as collectors donating NFTs for giveaways. The party keeps going at Panini NFT. Join the Mantel Panini NFT Group to follow the story in 2026 and learn more about collectible NFT's if you are interested.

Happy Fryday!

Collectibles + Community = Priceless

Panini Team has generously given away some flash packs this holiday week on the Panini NFT discord. One of the packs given away that was opened, turned into this Prizm Lebron 1/1. It already has an over 40k offer on it, even though it is not listed for sale. That is a great feature of the blockchain - you can easily find a collectible owner in seconds and make offers on the collectible, even though not for sale. Imagine being able to do that in physical. Nice way for a Panini NFT collector to end 2025!