> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kickchain.fun/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Kickchain NFT Cards: What They Are and How to Read Them

> Every prediction you make mints a Metaplex Core NFT card to your Solana wallet — here's what appears on each card and how to read it.

A Kickchain card is a real NFT. Not a receipt, not a badge — a fully-formed Metaplex Core asset that lives permanently in your Solana wallet. The moment your prediction is confirmed on-chain, the card is generated from your prediction data and minted directly to you. No one else holds it in escrow, and no one can take it back.

Each card is a visual record of a decision you made: which match, which market, which outcome, what odds, and what rarity you earned at that exact moment. Two people predicting the same outcome will have cards that look almost identical — but the odds, edition number, and serial will differ, making every card uniquely yours.

## Card anatomy

Every Kickchain card is built from the same layout, with elements that vary based on your prediction's rarity tier, outcome, and settlement status.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="KICKCHAIN Badge" icon="tag" href="/concepts/cards">
    Displayed in the **top-left corner**. Identifies this as an official Kickchain collectible, styled in the rarity accent colour with a distinctive skewed label.
  </Card>

  <Card title="WC26 Badge" icon="medal" href="/concepts/cards">
    Displayed in the **top-right corner** as a rotated diamond. Marks this card as part of the FIFA World Cup 2026 collection — a permanent branding element on every card.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Hero Art" icon="image" href="/concepts/cards">
    The large central artwork. Each rarity tier has its own visual style and colour palette — from the clean steel tones of Common cards to the gold-laced art of Legendary.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Status Chip" icon="circle-dot" href="/concepts/cards">
    Overlaid on the hero art. Shows the current state of your prediction: **WON**, **PENDING**, **MISSED**, or **LIVE**. Updates once the result is settled on-chain.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Market Label & Predicted Outcome" icon="list" href="/concepts/cards">
    Below the hero art. Displays the market type (e.g. "Match Result") and the outcome you predicted (e.g. "Away Win"). Clear and permanent — this is the core of your prediction.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Odds Diamond Plate" icon="diamond" href="/concepts/cards">
    A rotated diamond plate in the lower-right corner showing the decimal odds locked in at the time you predicted. This is the number that determined your rarity tier.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Edition Number & Serial" icon="hash" href="/concepts/cards">
    Your card's unique identifiers within the Kickchain collection. The edition number tracks when in the series it was minted; the serial distinguishes your specific card. Both are shown in the card's footer line.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Spine" icon="align-justify" href="/concepts/cards">
    The narrow strip along the left edge of the card. Displays the competition name — **WORLD CUP 2026** — so every card is identifiable even when displayed in a stacked or list view.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Foil effects

The foil treatment is the most visually distinctive element of a card's rarity tier, applied across the card face as a surface finish.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Common — No Foil">
    Common cards have a clean, flat finish with no foil treatment. The steel accent (`#9aa6bd`) runs through the badge, frame, and odds plate. These cards are sharp and readable — their value is in the prediction they represent, not visual spectacle.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Rare — Streak Diagonal">
    Rare cards carry a **streak diagonal foil** — a series of angled light-catching lines that run across the card face. The blue accent (`#5b9bff`) frames the card with a cooler, more energetic look. Streak foil is subtle in still images but shifts visibly as you tilt the card.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Epic — Holographic Shimmer">
    Epic cards use a **holographic shimmer** treatment that plays across the entire card face, cycling through the colour spectrum as the viewing angle changes. The purple accent (`#a78bff`) runs through all framing elements. These cards look alive in your collection.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Legendary — Holographic + Gold">
    Legendary cards share the holographic shimmer of Epic cards but layer in a **gold accent** (`#f2c14e`) throughout the frame, odds plate, badge, and spine. The combination of holographic surface and gold detailing makes Legendary cards immediately distinguishable as the rarest tier in the game.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Where your card lives

Once minted, your card is an asset in your Solana wallet — the same wallet you use for any other NFT or token. It appears in your **Collection tab** inside the Kickchain app, where you can:

* Browse all your cards by match, rarity, or status
* **Flip a card** to view its full on-chain attributes — market type, pick, odds-at-pick, rarity, edition, settled flag, and won flag
* **Share a card** directly from the app as an image, with all details intact

<Note>
  Each card's rarity tier, edition number, and odds-at-pick are permanently recorded on-chain as part of the Metaplex Core asset's attributes. Anyone can verify this data at any time — your bold Legendary call on a 9.00 underdog is provably real.
</Note>

## Card images and metadata

The artwork and metadata for every card are stored on **IPFS** — a decentralised, content-addressed storage network. This means:

* The image and metadata are permanent and not hosted by any single server.
* The IPFS content identifier (CID) is written into the on-chain NFT record, so the link between the chain data and the artwork is verifiable.
* Even if Kickchain's own servers went offline, your cards and their artwork would remain accessible via IPFS.

<Tip>
  When you flip a card in the Collection tab, the on-chain attributes panel shows the raw values stored in your Solana account — including the odds as an integer (decimal odds × 1000) and the rarity as a numbered tier. This is the ground truth that the leaderboard and set tracking both read from.
</Tip>

## One card, one prediction

Because the on-chain program enforces one prediction per wallet per market, no two cards in existence represent the same prediction from the same wallet. Your card is a unique artefact — a snapshot of your conviction about a specific World Cup outcome at a specific moment in time. Win or lose, it's yours.

To understand how your cards contribute to sets and score points on the leaderboard, see the [Sets & Leaderboard guide](/concepts/sets-and-leaderboard).