About SilphCo

SilphCo answers a single question — “How valuable is my card”?

Answering this is becoming an impossible problem because the surface area of the hobby is exploding under unprecedented demand. Modern Pokémon TCG sets are being printed at record highs, and the sheer number of unique cards collectors must track grows every month. As this surface area increases, market friction grows non-linearly.

The emergence of new marketplaces fragments information, making it nearly impossible to find a "true market price." This fragmentation creates massive inefficiencies and wide bid/ask spreads. Marketplace data is messy, and difficult to standardize due to regex-based aggregation, most collectors are left guessing.

In fact, the most common way people value cards at trading conventions in 2026 is still relying on recent eBay sales. In a digital-first world, this is akin to looking for job ads in a newspaper while the rest of the world uses LinkedIn.

Marketplace data is also very messy and difficult to search through. There is no standardized way to advertise a card listing, which makes simple regex-based marketplace aggregations an incomplete solution to creating accurate marketplace aggregation card listings.

SilphCo provides a suite of solutions designed to meet users where they are, allowing them to answer this question in whichever way is most comfortable for them—either through a traditional frontend UX or programmatic access via the REST v3 API and POST /api/v3/sql.

Explore the platform or start building with our API at silphcoanalytics.xyz/api/v3. API access is free-tier with dashboard API keys — create one at the dashboard.

SilphCo is a Pokémon TCG market-intelligence platform. It turns noisy, fragmented marketplace data into one canonical number — the SilphCo Price — produced by the Live Mark pricing engine. Every listing, sale, and spread that flows through the platform is distilled into that single mark, so you never have to guess what a card is really worth.

That same price powers every surface: your portfolio, Silph AI chat, and the developer REST API — including POST /api/v3/sql for structured queries against market datasets. One canonical number, everywhere you look.

Questions, feedback, or market takes? Join the SilphCo community on Discord, follow updates on X, or see charts and reels on Instagram.

I am Evan.

I’m a data nerd and Pokémon fan for life. I’ve been building custom data pipeline solutions from the ground up for a while—especially as a DeFi data scientist focusing on asset velocity, token flows, liquidity, and trading execution costs—to ensure I’m the first to analyze and extract insights. Before that, I studied theoretical and applied mathematics in school.

Pokémon is where my obsession with numbers and metrics truly began. I learned how to read by studying Game Boy Color guides to complete the games, and I spent my childhood constantly obsessed with the stats of the first three generations, analyzing the variations and math required to maximize their statistics.