Fantasy

What Fantasy does

Fantasy.top is an on-chain trading card platform that enables users to collect and trade digital cards representing prominent cryptocurrency personalities. The platform's core product is a browser-based, self-serve marketplace with a competitive leaderboard that tracks each "hero" card via a score, star rating, and floor price, effectively functioning as both a collectible trading card marketplace and a gamified fantasy game tied to crypto culture. The platform also extended into prediction markets as a secondary revenue stream. Underlying technology is a blockchain-based trading card system with on-chain ownership and transaction settlement.

The business model derives revenue from marketplace commissions on trading card transactions and transaction fees from prediction market activity. Go-to-market is product-led growth through a global, self-serve web platform targeting crypto-native individuals, traders, and prediction market enthusiasts. The pseudonymous founder Travis Bickle claims the platform generated multimillion-dollar revenues and was fully self-funded through product revenue for two years following a $4.25M seed round led by Dragonfly and Manifold in December 2024, with an earlier approximately $50,000 angel round from unnamed investors.

By April–May 2026, multiple independent sources reported that Fantasy.top was winding down or shutting down amid a broader crypto bear market in which Bitcoin fell roughly 40% from its October 2025 peak. The company was listed among 21 projects winding down and later among five crypto firms announcing wind-down or bankruptcy. The wind-down was accompanied by a dispute in which angel investors alleged a "soft rug pull," which the founder denied.

Name

Fantasy

Legal name

Fantasy.top

Website

https://fantasy.top

Company type

Private

Operating status

Closed

Short description

Fantasy.top is an on-chain trading card platform enabling users to collect, trade, and compete with digital cards featuring prominent cryptocurrency personalities via a global, self-serve browser marketplace, with secondary prediction market functionality.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Blockchain Trading Card Marketplace

NAICS

Other Gambling Industries (713290)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Fantasy Contests, Leagues & Tournament Organizers (MPAEAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Fantasy Sports Monetization & Commerce (Subscriptions, Premium Tools, Marketplaces) (MPAEAHAI)

Keywords

• Blockchain trading cards
• Crypto collectibles platform
• On-chain card marketplace
• Prediction markets crypto
• Web3 gaming platform

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Trading card marketplace: Platform generated multimillion-dollar revenues through trading card sales and transactions on its marketplace
2. Prediction markets: Revenue generated from prediction market activities on the platform

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Fantasy (Fantasy.top) operates an on-chain trading card platform where users collect and trade digital cards representing prominent cryptocurrency personalities. The platform features a leaderboard system tracking each card's score, star rating, and floor price, and also offers on-chain prediction market activities as a secondary product line.

Product overview

Fantasy Top is a single onchain trading card platform that enables users to collect, trade, and track digital cards representing prominent cryptocurrency personalities. The core product centers on a leaderboard tracking card performance through scores, stars, and floor prices, with cards featuring well-known crypto figures like Ansem, greg, naiive, Jack, and others. Users can view rankings and floor prices for each hero card, with the platform operating as a unified trading card marketplace built on blockchain technology.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fantasy Top An on-chain trading card marketplace where individual crypto users collect and trade digital cards featuring prominent cryptocurrency personalities such as Ansem, greg, naiive, Jack, and Adam Cochran. Cards are ranked via a live leaderboard displaying scores, star ratings, and floor prices.

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Sorare: On-chain fantasy sports platform where users collect and trade digital player cards to compete in contests. Closest functional analog to Fantasy Top's collectible-cards-plus-leaderboards mechanic, adapted to real-world athletes rather than crypto personalities.
• Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot): Pioneer of digital collectible cards on blockchain (NBA Top Shot). Operates the same core mechanic — scarce digital cards with floor prices and a marketplace — but anchored to licensed sports IP rather than crypto influencers.
• Polymarket: On-chain prediction market platform and one of Fantasy Top's explicit benchmarks given the founder's pivot toward prediction markets. Directly comparable user base (crypto-native traders), technology stack (blockchain settlement), and regulatory exposure.
• Gods Unchained: Blockchain-based trading card game where cards are NFTs that players own, trade, and use in competitive matches. Closely comparable to Fantasy Top's on-chain card ownership and marketplace mechanics, with a different theme (fantasy vs. crypto personalities).

Broad incumbents

• DraftKings: Dominant US-regulated fantasy sports and sports betting operator. Comparable in contest/leaderboard mechanic and fantasy monetization model, but serves mainstream sports audiences under full regulatory licensing — a regulated counterpoint to Fantasy Top's unlicensed approach.
• Magic Eden: Leading multi-chain NFT marketplace with comparable marketplace commission economics. Overlaps with Fantasy Top on the trading-card secondary market mechanism, though Magic Eden is a general-purpose venue rather than a themed card game.
• OpenSea: Largest general NFT marketplace. Provides comparable on-chain trading infrastructure and audience overlap with Fantasy Top's crypto-native user base, but does not operate themed fantasy contests.
• PrizePicks: US-based fantasy contest operator with a pick'em/props gameplay model and large cash-prize contests. Comparable in fantasy contest mechanics and monetization, but operates under regulated DFS frameworks with mainstream sports content.

Others

• Immutable: Blockchain gaming infrastructure provider (L2 + marketplace tooling) for titles like Gods Unchained and Illuvium. Adjacent to Fantasy Top as a potential enabler/infrastructure layer for on-chain card games rather than a direct competitor.

Emerging players

• CryptoKitties (Dapper Labs): Original on-chain collectible game built by Dapper Labs. Shares the digital-collectible-on-blockchain primitive and marketplace model with Fantasy Top, though without the competitive leaderboard or prediction-market overlay.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fantasy_top_

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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