Ex-Ripple CTO David Schwartz unboxes Fuzzy Cards, an XRP Ledger card game
In brief
- David Schwartz, Ripple's former CTO, posted an X photo of himself unboxing physical Fuzzy Cards boosters.
- Players burn XLS-20 NFT packs through a portal to receive sealed five-card paper boosters.
- About 100,000 packs have been burned, according to U.Today; the figure is not independently verified.
- FUZZY, the related meme token, had more than 11,500 holders by October 2026.
A kitchen unboxing before Swell
Schwartz thanked the senders and tagged the project's official account in the post. The timing stood out: he showed the cards just before the Ripple Swell 2026 conference in New York, where the community was preparing a side event called FuzzyCon.
It wasn't his first contact with the project. Earlier, in May, Schwartz opened a trustline to FUZZY, the project's native token.
U.Today read the post as a sign of top-level interest in an XRP-based physical game that most traders hadn't noticed (that's the publisher's interpretation, not something Schwartz said).
Burn the NFT, get the cards
XPUNKS GmbH, a publisher based in Zug, Switzerland and led by Kai Leroy, released the game. The starter series has 150 unique cards (Heroes, Relics and Events) across five in-game factions, and about 60 of them are holographic.
The mechanics are simple. Users buy digital packs as NFTs under the XLS-20 standard, then permanently burn them through a dedicated portal to get a physical version. Once the burn is recorded on the blockchain, the owner receives a sealed paper booster of five random cards, which can be professionally graded by CGC, PCA and TAG.
To date, holders have burned about 100,000 booster packs.
That figure comes from U.Today's report. No one has verified it independently.
A 2014 order and a meme token
The name goes back to January 1, 2014. That day, the FuzzyBear wallet placed an order on the XRPL decentralized exchange to swap 1 XRP for 1 BTC. The order never filled. In the first part of 2025 the community launched the meme token FUZZY as a tribute to it, and by October 2026 FUZZY had more than 11,500 holders.
Leroy's view is that all this is happening during a bull run in hybrid Web3 projects that the market has largely missed, with demand shifting toward tangible assets. That's his estimate, not a measured trend. U.Today also said the project is hard to copy, because physical production takes a long time and the game math is complex (a 150-card set can generate trillions of combinations).
Some parts aren't finished yet. A commission-based retail program through local board game stores is still being rolled out, and FUZZY remains a volatile meme asset whose price is tied to the XRP market.
Frequently asked questions
How do you get physical Fuzzy Cards?
Users buy digital packs as NFTs under the XLS-20 standard. They then permanently burn them through a dedicated portal. After the burn is recorded on-chain, the owner receives a sealed paper booster of five random cards that can be graded by CGC, PCA and TAG.
Where does the FUZZY token's name come from?
On January 1, 2014, the FuzzyBear wallet placed an order on the XRPL decentralized exchange to swap 1 XRP for 1 BTC. The order was never filled. In early 2025 the community launched the FUZZY meme token as a tribute, and it had more than 11,500 holders by October 2026.
