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<div style=" line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Valuation Summary 📝
<hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" /> To ensure the competitiveness of the investment, we conducted a thorough verification of the purchase price by analyzing recent transactions and current market values on the secondary sport card market. Our analysis confirmed that the price offered, inclusive of all associated fees, is still highly competitive. To estimate the potential ROI, we used the historical performance data of the CardLadder Shohei Ohtani card index. For our conservative scenario, we assumed the value of the card would grow at the rate of Swiss inflation, reflecting a defensive approach. In the balanced scenario, we calculated the average annual growth rate of the CardLadder Shohei Ohtani card index over past three years. Finally, in the ambitious scenario, we applied the historical average annual growth rate of the CardLadder Shohei Ohtani card index over the past 6 years, reflecting an optimistic outlook. 
 
Exit Options at Maturity 🚪

<hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" /> We will manage the exit strategy on behalf of our investors, ensuring the best possible outcome based on market conditions at the time. Depending on the value of the card and the prevailing market situation, we can either sell the card privately to a collector or take it to auction. Both options are carefully considered, and we will choose the one that maximizes the return for our investors. 
 
Why Invest in This Category? ⚾

<hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" /> Sports cards are an asset class that has enjoyed one of highest multipliers in growth over last 5 to 15 year span among alternative investment vehicles. Sports cards have strong fundamentals in bringing high valued licenses, age-tested brands, universal passion of sports, and transcendent talents together in innovative concepts. 
 
Why Invest in This Asset? 🧢

<hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" /> Shohei Ohtani, often compared to Babe Ruth, has now surpassed him with his unprecedented dual talent in pitching and batting. Recently, Ohtani became the first player to join the exclusive 50-50 club (50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season). This remarkable achievement, combined with his record-breaking game where he tallied 10 RBIs, 6 hits, and 3 home runs, cements his legacy in baseball history. This card is a rare piece from Epoch’s 2016 release, representing his time in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league before his MLB career. It features a full-body action shot of Ohtani, with a matching uniform patch taking up 50% of the card. Each letter of his nameplate is a 1/1, with this specific card being the “I” from “Ohtani”—the only letter present in all "Shohei," "Ohtani," "Fighters," and "Nippons." With a PSA 9 grade, this card marks a key moment in Ohtani's pre-MLB success, appealing to collectors as his fame continues to rise globally. 
 
Context in Time ⏳

<hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" /> Shohei Ohtani's rise in Major League Baseball (MLB) coincides with a pivotal moment in global sports history, where international talent and cross-cultural appreciation are at an all-time high. His 2016 achievements in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)—becoming league champion and MVP—set the stage for his groundbreaking MLB career. In an era of digital collectibles and rising interest in alternative investments, Ohtani’s memorabilia, especially from his early Japanese years, holds historical and cultural significance. This card represents a snapshot of Ohtani's transition from Japan’s national pride to becoming a global baseball icon, increasing its long-term value and relevance. 
 
Conclusion 🎯

<hr style="border: none; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" /> In conclusion, the investment offers a rare opportunity to own a highly valuable Shohei Ohtani card with strong historical and cultural significance. Supported by competitive pricing, diverse exit options, and the growth potential of the sports card market, this asset presents an appealing mid-term investment with promising returns.</div>

The price of 29,750 € includes the Splint Invest platform fee and external maintenance costs of 2,750 €. 27,000 € can be allocated to the asset. 
Platform Fee Splint Invest: Compensation for the tokenization of the assets, the maintenance as well as the further development of the application and the costs related to the research and maintenance of the expert network. 
External maintenance costs: Shipping, handling, as well as storage and insurance over the whole investment horizon.

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According to CardLadder, Ohtani sports cards have experienced an annual value increase of 56,5% over the past 6 years. Shohei Ohtani is often compared to Babe Ruth for his rare dual talent in pitching and batting at highest level. He is now widely regarded as surpassing Babe Ruth after creating the 50-50 club, hitting 50 home runs and stealing 50 bases in a single season, in a game many pundits call the greatest game in the baseball ever.

Return

The market cap for sports cards calculated very conservatively from a published estimate in 2019 and a multiplier of certain index relative growth could be $200B+ now and potentially reach at trillion level in the coming years as card manufacturers, various big platforms and numerous infrastructures actively try to grow the hobby of sports cards.

Stability

Ohtani is an international baseball sensation and Japan's national pride. Recently, Ohtani became the first player to join the exclusive 50-50 club (50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season).

Shohei Ohtani 2016 Epoch HNF Season Achievements Letter Patch I 6/6 PSA 9

Ohtani recently became the first player to join the exclusive 50-50 club, recording 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season. In the same game and the following one, he extended this record to 51-51 and 52-52, an achievement never before seen in baseball history. He has won two unanimous MVP awards and is highly likely to win a third this year.

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K3Y Asset is a hobby platform to tell stories in the hobby of card collecting in proper contexts and often in parallel to sports history and moments, while unlocking desirable attributes from key sports cards to elevate them into long term desirable assets.

K3Y Asset is a hobby platform to tell stories in the hobby of card collecting in proper contexts and often in parallel to sports history and moments, while unlocking desirable attributes from key sports cards to elevate them into long term desirable assets. 
 
K3Y Asset was founded by a well-known and respected curator and collector spinotron who has opened packs in late 90s and started collecting from secondary market since 2009. He has completed the hardest highest end modern set 1997 E-X2001 NBA essential credentials now and future sets. He is one of only two featured collectors in the blog of Panini America over the past 15 years of latter’s exclusive NBA licensed card manufacturing. He has identified and collected many top key card categories well ahead of the time and well-versed and researched in the ever-evolving hobby landscape, and a taste-maker and curator of sports cards via his social media platform. As a sample investment, he acquired Kobe 1997 PMG Green at $16k in 2011 and the last sales were at $1.75M and $2M. 
 
Sports cards constitute an asset class with one of highest multipliers over the last 5-15 year span among alternative investment vehicles. The market cap for sports cards calculated very conservatively could be $200B+ now and potentially reach at the trillion level in the coming years. 
 
The hobby of chasing and collecting sports cards, initially from the giveaway then from opening and pulling from tobacco and gum packs and ultimately from hobby packs per se, has a long history since 1865. It is ingrained in the culture, shapes collecting genes of hobbyists, and invokes strong nostalgia upon rediscovery later. 
 
Sports cards have strong fundamentals in bringing high valued licenses, age-tested brands, universal passion for sports, and talents together in innovative releases. Parallels of the sports worlds and the hobby, with interwoven story lines and narratives, will unlock many possibilities. 
 
Sports cards have robust value propositions backed by passionate collectors of various styles. The top key cards of players of legendary status or highest popularity are consistent with high upside over the evolving market, forming a viable, active, serious and exciting category to store wealth, extract value, speculate upside and anticipate growth.

K3Y Asset

Dingyu Yang is one of the most respected trading card expert globally. He is as well know as Spinotron and owns a 20k follower base on Instagram.

This is a concrete investment opportunity in which we have recalculated the expected performance given by the external expert (K3YAsset) and have thus checked whether a positive return can be expected after deducting all costs for storage and insurance. Furthermore, we have verified the existence, proper storage and insurance of the Sport Cards.

Shohei Ohtani 2016 Epoch HNF Season Achievements Letter Patch I 6/6 PSA 9

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