Gacha Packs Now Live With Three Tiers

The platform is live at collect.anime.xyz and is powered by Phygitals, a collectibles infrastructure known for its arcade-style approach to vaulted physical assets. Phygitals has built a reputation around taking real-world collectibles, authenticating and vaulting them, and minting NFTs that represent the underlying physical item.

Three pack types are available from launch: the Base pack at $50, the Ultra pack at $250, and the Plus Ultra pack at $1,000. Each tier offers different odds and collectible quality, with the higher-priced packs targeting serious collectors looking for rarer pulls. Every collectible inside the platform is vaulted and insured, meaning buyers can choose to hold the NFT digitally, trade it on secondary markets, or claim the physical item outright.

The combination of vaulted storage and on-demand redemption takes direct inspiration from how platforms like Phygitals have handled physical trading card vaults on Solana, translating that model into the Animecoin ecosystem.

Collectors Pass Mint Today at 12PM PT

Alongside the gacha platform launch, a Collectors Pass mint is dropping today at 12PM PT. The pass grants discounts on the platform and is accessible to members of four whitelisted NFT communities: Azuki, Elementals, Beans, and Moonbirds.

These communities represent some of the most recognizable names in the broader Web3 collectibles and NFT space. Azuki, Elementals, and Beans are the core communities most directly tied to the Animecoin ecosystem, having received 37.5% of the total ANIME token supply at the January 2025 token generation event. Moonbirds' inclusion extends the whitelist beyond the immediate Animecoin community, signaling an effort to pull in collectors from adjacent Web3 circles.

Discount levels for each tier are expected to be detailed around the mint.

A Marketplace Coming to Animechain

The collect.anime.xyz platform is launching without a native marketplace, but one is described as coming soon and likely to launch on Animechain. Animechain is the Animecoin ecosystem's own Layer 3 blockchain, built on Arbitrum Orbit and launched as a mainnet in June 2025. It uses $ANIME as its native gas token and is purpose-built for anime-specific applications including collectibles, streaming, and social layers.

Running the marketplace on Animechain would allow for near-zero gas fees on trades, fast transaction throughput, and tight integration with the existing $ANIME token economy. Collectibles purchased through collect.anime.xyz would flow directly into that marketplace infrastructure once it goes live.

How Phygitals Powers the Backend

Phygitals is the infrastructure provider behind the vaulting and redemption mechanics on collect.anime.xyz. The platform has built a recognizable model around creating arcade-style collecting experiences where physical items are authenticated, stored in a vault, and represented onchain as NFTs. Buyers interact with the digital asset while the physical item sits insured and available for redemption at any time.

This structure means users never have to choose upfront between collecting digitally and owning physically. A collector who opens a $250 Ultra pack can hold the NFT, list it for sale on a secondary market, or trigger a redemption request to receive the real-world item. The same flexibility applies regardless of pack tier.

Integrating Phygitals into the Animecoin ecosystem brings that vaulted-physical model to an anime-focused audience for the first time at this scale. The result is a collectibles platform that sits comfortably alongside existing Animecoin touchpoints like Gacha Grab on Anime.com, while offering a higher price point and a physically redeemable product.

Animecoin's Ecosystem and the Bigger Picture

Animecoin was founded by the Animecoin Foundation and launched its $ANIME token on January 23, 2025, on both Ethereum and Arbitrum. The project traces its origins to Azuki, the anime-inspired NFT collection from Los Angeles-based Chiru Labs that launched in January 2022 and generated over $300 million in sales. Azuki, Elementals, and Beanz holders claimed the largest portion of the token supply at launch, with the community allocation totaling 37.5% of 10 billion total tokens.

Since then, the ecosystem has expanded steadily. Animechain's Layer 3 mainnet launched in June 2025, followed by an AI and NFT content monetization integration in August 2025. That same month, Nasdaq-listed esports firm GameSquare Holdings committed to purchasing $2.5 million in ANIME tokens on the open market, also becoming Animecoin's agency of record. The deal included co-developing branded merchandise and integrating ANIME into esports contexts, with GameSquare managing clients such as Epic Games and Sony.

Animecoin has also integrated $ANIME as a payment option through Shopify via DePay, and has partnered with global marketing firm Dentsu and AniplexUSA to support its anime production efforts, most visibly through the Enter The Garden animated series on YouTube.

Gacha Grab: The Collectible Game Already Running Onchain

The collect.anime.xyz platform is not the first gacha experience in the Animecoin ecosystem. Gacha Grab launched in April 2024 on Anime.com, styled after Japan's gachapon toy vending machines. Players spend credits earned through Azuki, Elementals, and Beanz NFT ownership to spin for randomized digital rewards across three rarity tiers: Esteemed, Grand, and Legend.

Each spin costs 100 credits, and forming squads of multiple NFTs boosts reward odds. The Gachapons earned through NFT credits are permanently tied to the NFT itself, transferring to any new owner if the underlying NFT is sold. Gacha Grab served as the proof-of-concept for randomized digital reward mechanics within the ANIME ecosystem, and collect.anime.xyz now extends that model into physically redeemable, premium-priced collectibles.

Animechain's architecture supports up to 40,000 transactions per second and was specifically designed for high-frequency, consumer-grade applications. With Gacha Grab running on the platform and a physical collectibles marketplace incoming at collect.anime.xyz, the Layer 3 chain now has two distinct collectible economies feeding into it.

The anime industry is projected to reach $60 billion by 2030, with nearly 46% of revenue now coming from games, merchandise, and collectibles, categories that sit directly in Animecoin's product roadmap.