🎙️ How Courtyard Became the Fastest Growing Company in the World Ft. CEO Nico le Jeune

The Sporting Crypto Podcast is back with Episode 8! 🚨

In this episode we're joined by:

• Nico le Jeune, CEO & Co-founder @ Courtyard

Here's how it works:

💫 Courtyard sell NFTs that are underpinned by physical collectibles (Sports trading cards an example)

🚙 You can send your collectibles to Courtyard, and they hold them for you in a vault, secured by BRINKS, while issuing you an NFT that you can sell on the market

🔃 If you trade that NFT, the blockchain shows you no longer have ownership of the physical asset that underlies it

🎴 If you want to redeem the physical item, your NFT is burned and you are shipped it

The benefits of using blockchain here are clear:

⏩ Transactions are fast and frictionless

🚰 Liquidity is high

📦 There is no post and packaging

⛔ Fraud is harder to come by when authentication is on a blockchain

The numbers are insane...

In January 2024 they had $50,000 monthly sales volume

By January 2025 they had $16.5m...

 We discuss:

🛠️ Blockchain being a tool, not a destination

💎 Courtyard's NFT-collectibles business model

🎰 Vending machine digital pack experience

📈 Hypergrowth revenue metrics

🌐 Shift to mainstream non-crypto users

🌅 Expansion into new collectible categories

🌎 Real-world asset tokenization benefits

🌊 Market disruption through liquidity

🤖 AI integration for operations

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Supported by The HBAR Foundation

Sponsored by Credenza

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