Whitepaper
State of Slab Fraud 2026
A citable consolidation of publicly reported figures on graded-collectible fraud — with methodology, source attribution, and category-level data.
What's inside the report
Grading told the hobby what a card is worth. It never told the hobby where that slab has been. This report sets out the scale of intercepted fraud, the reseal and cert-cloning vectors that authentication alone cannot close, and why the market's next layer of infrastructure is unit-level provenance.
- Intercepted fraudulent value across graded submissions, with attribution
- Reholder swap, crack-and-regrade, and cert-cloning vectors explained
- Category-level exposure across cards and comics
- Market response to registry trust events, as reported
- The provenance model: what a chain of custody makes visible
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