The hobby has a new modern chase. The ERUPT! insert from 2026 Topps Chrome VeeFriends — released globally June 10 — crossed $74,000 in public secondary-market sales in under 72 hours, according to VeeFriends. The buzz is loud enough that prominent collectors Swish Breaks and MikeJY have posted public bounties of up to $100,000 to land the ones they want.
Why ERUPT! is the chase
ERUPT! is built to be scarce and loud: just 20 characters in the set, designed by Hungarian artist Gyula Németh with direct inspiration from Panini's legendary Kaboom! insert. Early top sales reported by VeeFriends include a Competitive Clown SuperFractor 1/1 at $11,000, an Adventurous Astronaut /10 Black Refractor at ~$9,000, and a run of base ERUPT! cards — Motivated Monster ($7,700), Fearless Fairy ($6,800), Gratitude Gorilla and Empathy Elephant ($6,500 each) — all within days of release.
The pull rates that explain the heat
VeeFriends lists the base ERUPT! at roughly 1 in 10 hobby cases, the Black Lava /10 at about 1 in 28, and the SuperFractor 1/1 at roughly 1 in 320 hobby cases. The single biggest chase: the Very, Very, Very, Very Lucky Black Cat SuperFractor 1/1, which already has an active $100,000 bounty on it. VeeFriends founder Gary Vaynerchuk has openly said he wants ERUPT! to become a Kaboom!-level institution.
What it signals for collectors
This is modern-insert mania in real time — thin transaction counts, viral bounties, and a release-week spike. Headline bounties are offers, not closing prices, so anchor to actual sold comps (130point is the tracker VeeFriends itself points to). And the oldest rule applies harder than ever: always check what you pull. A handful of base cards just sold for four figures.
Signal, not an appraisal. Figures reported by VeeFriends; verify live comps before buying or selling.
