In Brief:
- Metaplex reported over 1.5 million Core assets minted during June and July — consecutive record months that lifted lifetime Core mints beyond 8 million.
- Over the same stretch, Candy Digital, Beezie and Collector Crypt each moved inventory onto the standard, carrying MLB and DC Comics licenses, vaulted graded cards and a claw machine to Solana.
- A Core mint costs roughly 0.0029 SOL versus 0.022 SOL on Token Metadata, and royalties are enforced at the code level — the reason Candy cited for choosing it.
Three collectibles platforms shifted product onto Solana as Metaplex logged more than 1.5 million Core asset creations in June and July, the standard’s two biggest months on record.
June by itself accounted for 660,000 fresh Core mints — a 142% jump from May’s 273,000, and the strongest month since Core reached mainnet in April 2024 with 72,000. July then topped that figure.
Collectibles Summer on @solana is heating up.
• Core Asset creation hit ATHs with >1.5M created in Jun & Jul
• @CandyDigital led by bringing household IP like MLB onchain
• @Beezie went live on Solana with their new Claw
• @Collector_Crypt minted their first batch of Core@MetaplexView on X ↗
“After, yet again, the biggest month ever for Metaplex Core, total assets created have blown past 8 million,” Metaplex said.
That running total stood north of 7 million when June closed. Core had crossed 3 million back in July 2025, meaning the standard’s cumulative figure is now something like two and a half times what it was a year earlier.
Roughly 136,000 unique wallets signed a Metaplex transaction in June, compared with 120,000 the month before. The all-time figure exceeds 14 million wallets.
Candy Digital brought the licenses
May was when Candy Digital began shifting its licensed collectibles over to Solana on Core, re-minting the assets into self-custody Solana wallets. Major League Baseball, DC Comics, Netflix and Getty Images all sit in its catalog.
Among them is the Bat Cowl collection — DC’s genesis Batman set — comprising 11,544 minted Batcowls.
Serial numbers, edition, rarity and the metadata attached to them all transfer untouched. Packs move across in whatever condition they were already in, so anything unopened remains unopened. Candy is staggering the rollout and noted that certain assets might not migrate straight away in cases where the underlying IP requires additional review.
May 20 was the cutoff for fans to reactivate dormant accounts in order to be eligible for burning or migration.
Royalty enforcement on Core is what tipped the decision, according to Candy. Royalties across most marketplaces hinge on marketplace policy or off-chain arrangements, whereas Core bakes the enforcement into the program itself — a distinction that carries weight when the rights holder happens to be a sports league instead of a pseudonymous artist. The firm also flagged on-chain tooling for dynamic collectibles, rewards and AI agent experiences. Its rebuilt candy.io site is now live.
Beezie’s claw went live
Beezie unveiled its Solana expansion on May 12 and had surpassed $2 million in volume inside two days of launch.
Physical graded cards, sealed products, sneakers and other collectibles sitting in institutional vaults are tokenized on the platform, with PSA, BGS or CGC handling grading and physical redemption offered worldwide. Each item is represented one-to-one.
Pulls on its Claw Machine range from $30 to $500 and draw from curated inventory that includes graded Pokemon cards, sealed TCG boxes, One Piece slabs, sneakers, Labubus and memorabilia; odds are published and every pull can be verified on-chain. Through the SWAP feature, a collector can hand any pull back for as much as 90% of fair market value within a 15-minute window.
To date Beezie has handled upwards of 540,000 claw pulls alongside more than 530,000 instant buyback swaps — a buyback rate close to 90%.
Flow hosted the product suite first, followed by an expansion to Base, where volume moved past $100 million. Beezie arrived on Solana running at $142 million ARR.
“Solana is where the next wave of collectors will find us,” said Andrea Miele, CEO of Beezie. Additional verticals, luxury goods among them, are on the way, per the company.
Collector Crypt minted its first Core batch
Having previously built on other Metaplex standards — pNFTs, Token Metadata and Bubblegum v2 — Collector Crypt minted its first batch of collectibles on Core. It had already created upwards of 130,000 Metaplex assets before making the switch.
The platform stores physical trading cards, predominantly Pokemon, in a Delaware vault and sells randomized digital packs backed by them, redeemable for shipment whenever the holder chooses. On May 15 it passed 130,000 cards vaulted and minted, and lifetime volume has now cleared $1.6 billion. April delivered somewhere around $165 million in trading volume and about $85 million in revenue.
More than 12,000 cards have gone out across 3,000 packages, with no damage reported.
The company’s CARDS token went live Aug. 29, 2025 via a 48-hour Metaplex Genesis launch pool, which distributed 100 million tokens — 5% of a fixed 2 billion supply.
What the mints are worth
Of the $201,000 in protocol revenue Metaplex booked in June, Core contributed $69,000, or 34%. Revenue overall climbed 16.8% versus May. July’s tally reached $253,000, the best showing since the first quarter.
From June’s proceeds, the DAO put $127,000 toward buying back 3.8 million MPLX — 0.4% of total supply and 0.8% of the outstanding float.