SilphCo Blog

Data-driven analysis of the Pokémon TCG market.

May 5, 2026

Modern Chase Cards 2026: Winners, Losers, and What Survives

PSA 10 Chase Performance: Month 1 Through Month 9

A data-driven look at PSA 10 chase card performance across modern Pokémon TCG sets. Charizard and Pikachu are immune to the crash. SIRs outside top characters crash 60–93%. Illustration Rares are the stealth gainers. Plus: volume analysis showing chase cards command 50–64% of PSA 10 liquidity. 432K verified sales.

June 6, 2026

3 Lessons from Building a 170GB Iceberg Lakehouse with 8GB RAM

Lane registry, incremental Iceberg gold, and memory-bounded promotion on a single box.

How the SilphCo Pokémon TCG analytics lakehouse unifies 9 marketplace pipelines into one Apache Iceberg medallion model on a single 8GB-RAM server: a lane registry and schema contracts, incremental gold with snapshot-consistent DuckDB serving, and memory-bounded promotion.