Index / About
We’ll pay you not to ship it.
Keeper Holdings is a custody network for sealed tech. A bonded Keeper is paid to hold an item in place, so its owner can store it, sell it, or take delivery without the box moving until it has to.
The problem
Sealed RAM, GPUs, consoles and collectible cartridges have become things people hold. The ways to hold them are bad: ship it to yourself and pay the freight and the risk, or leave it with a marketplace that charges you to sell and then ships it anyway. Every change of hands moves the box, and every move is a chance to damage it, lose it, or have the seal questioned.
The idea
Separate the box from the title. The box sits with a Keeper, a bonded holder with a fixed address who photographs it next to a one-time code on a schedule and posts a stake that covers its replacement value. The title is a custody receipt that the owner can keep, sell, or redeem for shipment. A buyer in Columbus can own a sealed kit sitting in Akihabara and sell it to someone in Osaka without it crossing an ocean twice.
Why a Keeper does it
They are paid to hold. The custody fee rises with the item’s volatility, because volatile items mean more proofs, more disputes and a bigger stake at risk. It does not rise with the price, and the Keeper never has exposure to it. This is a boring, repeatable job, which is the point.
Why the index comes first
Bonds, fees and disputes all need a price that nobody inside the network can push around. So layer one is the Keeper Index: part-level reference prices built from public sources with links, free 24 hours delayed and live for a cent. The method takes five minutes to read.
What it is not
Not a marketplace for options. Not fractional. Not leveraged. Not cash-settled. Not investment advice. The only things for sale are a sealed item and a bailment on it.
Where it stands
November 2026. The index is live with automated feeds and a public method. The custody registry is built and switched off behind the pilot gates on the Network page. One Keeper is active in Ohio; a Tokyo Keeper is pending. The code is plain JavaScript on Cloudflare Workers and D1, with no dependencies.