🛍️ Shop
文化を、持ち帰る — Take culture home.
The experience ends; the object remains. Matsuri Shop is the marketplace where the culture you met on a tour — the potter's bowl, the weaver's cloth, the one-of-a-kind piece from a workshop — becomes something you carry home. And it is sold by the community itself: every shop belongs to a vetted member of the GCF network.
Sellers — the community behind the counter
Anyone selling on Matsuri has already passed through two gates. Each seller runs one shop, sellers are GCF members, and before a single product goes live, the shop must clear KYC identity approval and complete Stripe Connect onboarding — so every seller is verified and every payout path is bank-grade from day one.
This is a deliberate trade: a smaller marketplace, but one where membership is the first layer of curation. The person selling you a craft is part of the same community that guides the tours and runs the events — not an anonymous storefront.
Self-serve onboarding runs through GCF Start, whose add-on categories include a dedicated shop category — the same path that opens experience, restaurant and crowdfunding access for community hosts.
Four product types
One marketplace, four kinds of things worth owning:
| Type | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Catalog | Standard listings with inventory — crafts and goods made in quantity |
| One-of-one | Unique single pieces: when it sells, it is gone |
| Digital | Digital goods, delivered instantly after purchase |
| NFT | On-chain collectible items that join your NFT collection |
NFT items sold in the Shop live alongside the rest of your on-chain collection — event-attendance drops and 御朱印 (goshuin, temple-seal) NFTs from mining — viewable in the in-app gallery and verifiable on Solscan.
Escrow — trust as the centerpiece
The hardest problem in a cross-border marketplace is not payments — it is trust between strangers. Matsuri answers it structurally: every order is an escrow order. The buyer pays, the platform holds the funds, and the seller is paid only after the buyer confirms receipt. Neither side has to take the other on faith.
Funds are held by the platform until the buyer confirms receipt — then released to the seller.
Only real buyers can review, and each order carries exactly one review. No fake stars.
Ask the seller questions directly on the listing before you commit.
Negotiate — make an offer on a listing instead of paying the sticker price.
Each order carries its shipment record from dispatch to delivery.
Sellers issue shop coupons and run their own promotions.
Around that core sit the conveniences a real marketplace needs: shop follows to track sellers you love, favorites, and saved shipping addresses for repeat purchases.
Second-hand — 日本の良いものを、次の人へ
日本の良いものを、次の人へ — "Japan's good things, on to the next person." Great craftsmanship outlives its first owner, so the Shop includes a Mercari-style quick-listing flow for second-hand items: photograph, describe, list. The same escrow and verified-review machinery protects both sides, which matters most precisely when the seller is an individual rather than a storefront.
A second-hand market is cultural preservation in miniature: objects stay in circulation, value returns to the community, and a visitor's find becomes the next visitor's story.
Live-commerce drops
A shop is not only a catalog — it can go live. Any shop can host live streams with product drops: the seller demonstrates a piece on camera and pushes it into the stream as a purchasable drop, and viewers buy in the moment. It is the natural stage for one-of-one pieces — show the object, tell its story, sell it once.
Drops go beyond products, too — the live layer can push coupons, polls and more into a stream, with chat, tipping rails and the MLC prepaid coin alongside. The full picture is in Live Streaming.
The buyer flow, end to end
- DiscoverBrowse shops, follow sellers, favorite products — and use the product Q&A or make an offer before you buy.
- Check outCart and checkout run on Stripe, with your saved shipping addresses ready for repeat orders.
- Escrow holds the fundsYour payment is held by the platform — the seller is not paid yet.
- The seller shipsThe shipment is recorded on the order and followed through to delivery.
- Confirm receiptYou confirm the item arrived as described; only then do funds release to the seller.
- ReviewLeave your purchase-verified review — one per order, from a real buyer.
🪙 Where MTC comes in
Selling is one of the platform's creator-economy legs: hosting, guiding, streaming, publishing and selling all pay out in JPY and/or MTC — the mechanics live in Mining & Earning. And every purchase feeds the wider loop that connects commerce back to culture, described in the flywheel: the more culture travels home in someone's suitcase, the more the economy that protects it grows.