{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/the-registry-is-closed",
  "slug": "the-registry-is-closed",
  "title": "The Registry Is Closed: Dark Charizard and What Happens When Demand Meets a Finished Population",
  "summary": "Team Rocket's Dark Charizard adds 34 slabs a week to a registry of 9,591, a third of a percent. When buyers arrived, its PSA 10 median went from $1,563 to $3,475 between our July 27 and August 3, 2026 readings, because there was nothing else that COULD move. This is the vintage thesis in one card, on six recorded sales rising to fifteen.",
  "section": "Investment research",
  "published": "2026-08-28",
  "readMinutes": 5,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "+0.35%/wk",
      "measures": "registry growth",
      "basis": "34 slabs on pop 9,591, Aug 3 to Aug 20"
    },
    {
      "value": "+122%",
      "measures": "PSA 10 median move",
      "basis": "$1,563 to $3,475, Jul 27 to Aug 3"
    },
    {
      "value": "1999",
      "measures": "print year",
      "basis": "the attic supply is spent"
    },
    {
      "value": "9,591",
      "measures": "total pop",
      "basis": "effectively the final number"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "Closed registries turn demand into price with no shock absorber"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Population series from moonstone daily PSA registry snapshots: Dark Charizard's runs August 3 to August 20, 2026, 9,509 to 9,591, which is the 34 slabs a week and the 0.35% quoted here. Medians are from verified eBay solds, first-to-latest across the readings we actually hold for this card, July 27 and August 3, 2026, at six and fifteen sales. Those two tapes are NOT the same window: an earlier version of this page described the price move as seventeen days inside the registry window, and it is seven days and mostly before it. Our graded store holds no reading for this card between August 10 and August 28, so no seventeen-day price pair exists to quote. Sample thresholds per the graded ledger's standard, minimum three sales per point. Not financial advice."
  ],
  "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file."
}