You make some great points. Unfortunately PCGS and NGC are not interested as the risk vs reward is not favorable.
Is there really any way that these two companies revenues have not being going down at least a little over the past few years? A struggling collector hobby which is rapidly loosing it's main customer base. Which should be telling when in the past decade the world's economies have mostly been booming.
Just FYI, I've been an investor in CLCT for a while now, which is the PCGS company, and their stock price has tanked as of late and they cut their dividend in half recently. They're in trouble. So my opinion is that it absolutely would not hurt for them to be approached by the crypto coin community to see about grading some of these great tokens (that's the difference in their eyes, these are not "coins"). I'm actually kind of surprised that they haven't jumped on board with this yet. Usually if a competitor is making money from something, a la ANACS, a company will follow suit.
As I said, I'm not part of this community. Have either PCGS or NGC issued any kind of guidance regarding this? Has anyone approached them?
I'd say branching in to other sectors WITHIN their playing field could and would make a lot of sense.
That's what I'm saying, but I have to profess ignorance as to whether anyone has requested they start grading physical crypto yet. And I'd find it hard to believe that they'd be unaware of the existence of these fine pieces of exonumia, since these people specialize in coins and, I would presume, know a little something about tokens--AND that they would at least keep an eye on what ANACS is doing. My guess is that they see it as a small market and have their hands full already, grading the yearly silver eagles and other bullion products by the thousands.
I'd be curious to know how many total crypto coins you guys have sent to ANACS per year and whether there would be enough demand in their eyes. Grabbing less than 100% of a what's already a small market might not be worth it to PCGS or NGC.