The trading card game industry has exploded over the past few years. Between Magic: The Gathering continuing to dominate the competitive space, Disney Lorcana rapidly growing into a powerhouse, and new games like Riftbound expanding globally, many players now collect and play across multiple TCG ecosystems.
The problem? The infrastructure around buying, selling, and tracking cards hasn’t really caught up.
Today, a new platform called CardNexus is officially launching its peer-to-peer marketplace and portfolio tracker, and it’s positioning itself as the first platform designed from the ground up for multi-game collectors.
Personally, this is the kind of platform I’m always happy to see succeed. The TCG community has long relied on marketplaces tied to massive companies like eBay, and while those services work, they’re rarely built specifically with collectors in mind. Having a smaller, collector-focused platform entering the space is something I’m always inclined to support.
And in this case, the idea behind CardNexus actually solves a problem a lot of players have been quietly dealing with for years.
A Marketplace Built for Multi-Game Collectors
CardNexus launches today! Introducing an all-in-one platform that combines:
A collection tracker
A portfolio value dashboard
A peer-to-peer marketplace
A card scanning mobile app (coming soon)
Unlike most platforms that primarily focus on a single game, CardNexus launched with support for 10+ different trading card games, including:
Magic: The Gathering
Pokémon TCG
Disney Lorcana
Riftbound
Flesh and Blood
Sorcery: Contested Realm
One Piece Card Game
Rise TCG
Drakerion
Cyberpunk TCG
Another 60+ games are also tracked within the system, meaning collectors who bounce between different games can manage their collections in one place.
For players like me who constantly move between Magic, Lorcana, and Riftbound, this is honestly one of the most appealing parts of the platform.
While stores like Card Kingdom are fantastic for Magic players, they rarely support other TCG ecosystems in a meaningful way. That means collectors often end up juggling multiple websites, spreadsheets, or inventory apps just to keep track of everything they own.
CardNexus is trying to solve that exact problem.
Scan, Track, and Trade Your Cards
The platform is built around a simple collector workflow:
Scan → Track → Trade
A dedicated CardNexus Scanner mobile app will launch in the coming weeks, using proprietary machine-learning models that run entirely on-device. The scanner can identify a card’s:
Game
Set
Rarity
Language
Finish
And it can do it without requiring an internet connection.
Once scanned, cards are added to your portfolio dashboard, where collectors can monitor the total value of their collection across games, view price changes, and track historical trends. From there, cards can be listed directly on the marketplace with only a few clicks.
Instead of manually creating listings, your collection inventory becomes your marketplace inventory, eliminating the tedious process of re-entering card details every time you want to sell something.
Competing With TCGPlayer and Cardmarket
CardNexus is entering a space currently dominated by two major players:
TCGPlayer (North America), acquired by eBay in 2022
Cardmarket (Europe)
Both platforms have become essential parts of the hobby, but they also have some limitations.
TCGPlayer is heavily tied into the eBay ecosystem, while Cardmarket remains largely restricted to Europe. Both were also originally designed primarily around Magic: The Gathering, with other games added later.
CardNexus CEO Tristan Foureur believes the industry has simply outgrown that model.
“Collectors play three, four, five games now. They invest real money. But they're still managing it all in spreadsheets and across platforms that don't talk to each other. We built the platform that we wished existed years ago.”
Since launching its beta, the platform has already gained significant traction.
CardNexus reports:
18,000+ users
7.5 million cards tracked
€15 million in total portfolio value
7,300 monthly active users in February
~2,000 daily active users in the past week
For a platform that’s less than a year old, those numbers are surprisingly strong.
A Cross-Region Marketplace
Another interesting feature of CardNexus is that it operates across both North America and the European Union, allowing collectors to trade internationally.
The marketplace includes several built-in safety features:
Escrow payment system
Double-blind review system
Automated fraud detection
Integration with 1,200+ shipping carriers
For sellers, CardNexus charges:
5% transaction fee in the EU
8% transaction fee in North America
Buyers pay a 2.5% fee.
Built by Collectors, Not Corporations
CardNexus was founded in 2025 in Bordeaux, France by:
Tristan Foureur (CEO)
Gaultier Romon (CTO)
Julie Le Soymier (CPO)
The founders previously worked at WeMaintain, a French tech company that raised over €50 million and reached €50 million in annual revenue.
While the team clearly has startup experience, the platform itself was built with a very specific audience in mind: TCG collectors who play multiple games.
That focus is part of why the project feels interesting.
Final Thoughts
Personally, I’m always happy to see more collector-focused platforms entering the TCG space, especially ones that aren’t tied to massive corporate marketplaces. While services like TCGPlayer absolutely have their place, it’s refreshing to see a platform designed around how people actually collect cards today — jumping between multiple games rather than sticking to just one.
For players like me who regularly buy, sell, and trade across Magic, Disney Lorcana, and Riftbound, having a single platform that can track and manage everything is honestly pretty appealing. Card Kingdom remains one of my favorite places to buy Magic cards, but when it comes to supporting multiple TCG ecosystems, the options have been pretty limited.
If CardNexus delivers on its promise of becoming a true multi-game hub for collectors, it could become a really interesting alternative for the growing number of players who don’t just stick to one card game anymore.
If you’re following the latest developments across the trading card game industry, make sure to check out our 2026 TCG & Tabletop Release Calendar, where we track every upcoming set, expansion, and major product release across games like Magic: The Gathering, Disney Lorcana, Riftbound, Pokémon, and more.
