Solana Collectibles Platform Rip Cars Raises $1.5M Strategic Round

The raise is small, but the investor mix — a fund like DBA alongside individual crypto figures — signals continued appetite for tokenized-physical-asset models on Solana even as broader collectibles hype cools. The real test is the buyback program: it effectively makes the platform a market maker on its own inventory, so whether that liquidity holds under stress is the open question. Watch for how redemption and buyback volumes track against pack sales, since that gap reveals whether users treat this as a collectible or a trading product.