tash

Category

Fintech & Web3

Launched

August 6, 2026

Stage

Seed

Pricing

paid

Website

tash.cards

The trading card market has a liquidity problem. You can buy a rare Charizard for half a million dollars, but selling it takes weeks, requires grading, and often depends on finding one wealthy buyer. tash, a Y Combinator backed startup (S26 batch), wants to change that by turning cards into a regulated asset class. Instead of selling you a card, it sells you a share of an index that holds fifty of them. The pitch is bold: a chart on its homepage shows the CL50 index — a basket of 50 iconic cards — quietly outperforming the S&P 500 over two decades. From 2004 to 2026, the S&P 500 grows to $10,163, while the CL50 reaches $23,632. That's the kind of return that makes a traditional investor pause. But the real story isn't the chart; it's the infrastructure tash is building to make that chart legal.