Bristlecone Vault
U.S. companyAbout Bristlecone Vault
A neutral marketplace where physical collectibles trade as easily as digital ones — with provenance, royalties, and redemption built in.
The problem
Physical collectibles — graded cards, watches, sneakers, art — are slow to sell, expensive to ship, easy to fake, and hard to prove you ever owned. Sellers wait weeks for payouts. Buyers gamble on authenticity. Creators see nothing when their work resells. The internet solved this for digital goods a decade ago. Physical goods got left behind.
Our approach
Bristlecone Vault pairs each physical item with a blockchain-backed token. The item sits with a certified custody partner. The token trades in our marketplace, instantly and globally, with provenance recorded on-chain. When a collector wants the physical item, they redeem the token — it's burned, and the issuer's custody partner ships the item. The issuer earns a royalty on every resale, automatically and forever.
Custody, not custody theater
We never touch the physical item. It stays with a certified custody partner under the issuer's arrangement. We record. They custody.
On-chain ownership
Every mint, sale, transfer, and redemption is permanently recorded on Polygon. No login, no broker, no platform can erase what happened.
Royalties that follow the item
Issuers set a royalty at mint. It pays out on every secondary sale, automatically, with no enforcement overhead.
What we don't do
- We don't grade, authenticate, or appraise items. Those claims come from the issuer and their custody partner.
- We don't hold inventory or act as a broker, custodian, or fiduciary. Buyers and sellers transact peer-to-peer.
- We don't sell tokens as investments. They're digital ownership records for collectible items — not securities.
Bristlecone Vault LLC is a Florida limited liability company.
Questions, partnerships, or press: hello@bristleconevault.com