One card, two chains, never two copies.
Panini America sells licensed digital trading cards on its own private blockchain. Epeius built the infrastructure behind the Panini Bridge, which opened on March 30, 2026. Collectors move eligible cards to their own Ethereum wallets, trade them on OpenSea and bring them home again, and only one copy of a card is ever live.
The marketplace the bridge connects · Panini platform figures
A thriving private market, with a wall around it.
Panini’s private blockchain gave collectors a trusted, branded marketplace. It also kept their cards inside it. To open the wall, Panini needed cards to leave and return safely, with every protection its sports licensing partners expect still in place.
Cards confined to one platform
Digital cards couldn’t reach the wider Ethereum NFT market, or the buyers on it.
No self-custody
Collectors wanted to hold cards in their own wallets, not only on Panini’s platform.
Two chains, one card
Moving a card between chains had to make it impossible for the same card to trade as two separate assets.
One history, wherever it trades
Each card needed a verifiable history that stays consistent across both chains.
Partners’ protections intact
Public trading had to keep the controls and authenticity Panini’s licensed sports partners expect.
Not tied to Panini’s servers
Card metadata and images needed durable storage beyond Panini’s own infrastructure.
Lock, mint, trade, return. One card the whole way.
Panini chose Epeius to build the cross-chain infrastructure between its enterprise blockchain and Ethereum Mainnet. OpenSea is Panini’s exclusive marketplace for bridged cards.
- 01 · Lock
Escrow
When a collector bridges a card, the original is locked in escrow on Panini’s chain.
- 02 · Mint
ERC-721
A matching NFT is minted on Ethereum Mainnet and sent to the collector’s own wallet.
- 03 · Trade
OpenSea
The card trades on OpenSea, where verified listings show it’s authentic Panini.
- 04 · Return
Back home
Bridged back, the card unlocks on Panini for challenges and crafting, and the Ethereum copy goes into escrow.
- 05 · Record
One history
Every move joins a single history across both chains, with media and metadata on decentralized storage.
Interoperability, with controls intact
Woven Token is the layer that lets eligible cards move between Panini’s chain and Ethereum in both directions, while the brand compliance Panini’s licensing partners require comes along with them.
Licensing rules, enforced onchain
AMP is Woven’s onchain compliance mechanic. It watches bridged cards for activity that breaks the rules Panini sets, and runs the preset action.
Single cards out, sealed packs in
Eligible single cards can be bridged. Sealed digital packs stay on Panini’s platform, which keeps pack sales and cross-chain trading separate.
The Panini Blockchain Marketplace has been thriving, and the next step is giving our collectors greater control over their digital assets and access to a broader audience through an established Web3 marketplace.
Secure interoperability is essential to making that possible. By integrating Epeius’ Woven Token into the Panini platform, we can enable collectors to move their digital cards between ecosystems, take advantage of self-custody, and discover new opportunities to engage with and trade their collectibles.
Our sales performance demonstrates the demand for digital collectibles, and we believe the next stage of growth depends on making cross-chain trading seamless, secure, and accessible.
Woven helps us deliver that experience while maintaining the brand compliance and protections our licensing partners expect.
Collectors own their cards. Panini keeps its standards.
Self-custody
Bridged cards live in collectors’ own Web3 wallets, under their control.
A bigger market
Eligible Panini cards trade on OpenSea, in front of buyers who were never on Panini’s platform.
Authentic, wherever it goes
One live copy, one history and media that doesn’t depend on Panini’s servers, so a card’s authenticity holds on either chain.
Marketplace figures are Panini’s reported platform performance. They show the scale of the marketplace the bridge connects to Ethereum and aren’t Epeius results. 2026 figures include months before the bridge opened on March 30, 2026.
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