Payments
Pay with Ethereum for Trading Cards
You can load your Waffles balance with Ethereum — same $5 to $1,000 range as Bitcoin, same balance-then-buy-a-pack mechanic, same $10 / $25 / $50 / $100 tiers once the funds land.
Ethereum has its own way of going wrong that Bitcoin does not, and it is worth a paragraph before the rest of the mechanics, because it is the mistake that actually costs people money.
The mistake: sending on the wrong network
"Ethereum" is not one network anymore. If you hold ETH on an exchange or in a wallet, you have probably also seen Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism or one of a dozen other networks that all use the same ETH symbol and settle for a fraction of a cent — because they are not Ethereum mainnet. Plenty of exchanges default a new withdrawal to whichever of those is cheapest, because for most transfers, cheaper is better.
Not here. Waffles only accepts Ethereum sent on mainnet. If your wallet gives you a network picker when you go to send — and most do now — mainnet, sometimes just labeled "Ethereum," is the one to pick. ETH sent on Arbitrum to a mainnet address does not quietly show up a bit later. It goes to an address that exists on a different network, and nothing here can see it, credit it, or get it back.
The address itself has its own check — and it only helps if you do not strip it
An Ethereum address is 42 characters: 0x followed by 40 hex characters. Most wallets display it with a mix of upper and lowercase letters that is not random — that capitalization is a real checksum (EIP-55), and it is the one thing that can catch a single mistyped character before it costs you anything. Copy the address exactly as your wallet shows it. Retyping it by hand, or "cleaning it up" to all-lowercase, throws away the one built-in typo check the format has.
What lands in your balance, and how fast
Ethereum blocks land roughly every 12 seconds — much faster than Bitcoin's roughly 10 minutes — but "credited" still waits for real confirmation, not just "seen." The same four states apply as any crypto load here: waiting for your payment, seen on the network, confirmed, credited. Nothing on this page promises a number of minutes, on purpose — block times vary, and a promise like that reads as a guarantee the moment network traffic disagrees with it.
Same floor and ceiling as Bitcoin: $5 minimum, $1,000 maximum per load, and the same exact-amount invoice — the figure you are shown carries a small unique tail so the deposit can be matched to your account on an address other customers also use.
What does not change once the ETH is in
A pack bought from an Ethereum-funded balance is identical to one bought any other way: 4 cards, published per-tier odds, an average payout that runs roughly 90% of the price of the pack — below the price, the same way it does for every pack we sell. If a pull is not one you want to keep, the sell-back ladder pays 70% to 90% of market value depending on your tier, the same as always.
And the same honesty applies here as anywhere else on this site: this is brand new. Nobody has funded an account with Ethereum yet — this describes how the mechanism is built, not a history of it working.
If the mechanics of an actual pull — what is in the pack, what the odds look like by tier — are what you are weighing before you load anything, that is laid out in full separately.
Every rate quoted above — buyback, EV, pack size — is pulled live from the code that runs this shop on the honesty page, not retyped here where it could drift.