Ace Grading is a leading card grading service company in the global card trading market. But what are trading cards, and how are they graded? Read on as we dive into the benefits of Ace Grading’s anti-counterfeiting slabs for trading card authenticity verification.
For starters, trading cards can mean different things to different people. For kids, they can be vessels for imagination, used during playtime. For collectors, they are potent pieces of that imaginative era of childhood.
But for investors or resellers passionate about anti-counterfeiting in collectibles, verified trading cards offer a significant revenue stream. Some of these collectible cards sell for millions of dollars at auctions, and the industry generates billions of dollars every year.
So whether collectors are in it for sentimental reasons or for profitability, there’s no denying that collectible cards are an investment that requires high-level protection.
Card grading is the process of submitting a trading card to a third-party service provider, such as Ace Grading. While their anti-counterfeiting slabs are in a league of their own, most service providers simply inspect the trading card for authenticity and rate its condition on a 10-point scale.
But counterfeiters are always looking for loopholes, and the circulation of fake trading cards is a real danger to not just the industry revenue, but also the integrity of collectibles.
Ace Grading has elevated card grading standards by taking this process a step further with sealed, tamper-evident packaging, each with a unique catalogued serial number.
Ace Grading sets itself apart from every other card grading company by recognizing, at the heart of its operations, that the industry is consistently evolving and thus maintaining a proactive approach to technology to stay ahead of the game.
Ace Grading is of the firm belief that every graded card is a prized possession and, as such, should be treated with eggshell-level care, while proudly showing it off like one would do with the most precious of metals at the same time. That’s where Ace Grading’s anti-counterfeiting slabs come into play.
These custom-designed plastic casings and labels showcase the rarity and premium value of your graded trading cards while keeping them safe from external elements such as dust and oils from your fingers. This reflects trading card marketplace trends where collectors are looking for more innovative ways to showcase their cards but also seek to protect them.
These trading card “trophies” or slabs by Ace Grading have become anti-counterfeiting essentials for collectors. But they’re also essential for protecting and proudly showcasing your cards.
Ace Grading recently released its Launch Edition cases and is making them exclusively available to their original submitters.
As an additional layer of authentication to bolster the grading slabs’ security features, Ace Grading is embossing the card cases with Cypheme’s Noise Print AI-based labels, the most efficient anti-counterfeit labels currently available globally.
These graded cards by Ace offer more robust verification and peace of mind to collectors.
Each anti-counterfeiting Noise Print label is assigned to a unique card slab by Ace Grading and powered by Cypheme, a leading French company pioneering future-driven AI anti-counterfeiting technology.
These holographic authentication labels are infused with chemicals that give each Ace Grading case a unique fingerprint. The result? An impossible-to-duplicate product authentication solution. As such, it’s impossible to copy these labels without Cypheme’s AI detecting them during an authentication check.
This makes Noise Print labels the ideal anti-counterfeiting AI verification system to secure trading cards.
Checking the authenticity of a trading card or performing a sports card authentication is as simple as taking a photo of the Noise Print label with a smartphone. Within seconds, Cypheme’s AI gives you feedback in less than 5 seconds to verify the authenticity of the trading card you’re holding.
Combining these anti-counterfeiting labels with protective slabs is a future-driven step by Ace Grading to layer-protect graded cards with robust AI technology, which is in line with the company’s core belief that precious items need to be protected.
This is a modern necessity in every collector’s kit and a must-have for accurate vintage trading card valuation, to ensure that collectors and resellers are getting the real redeemable value of their cards.
