{
  "slug": "premium-currency",
  "url": "https://gachawiki.com/wiki/premium-currency",
  "type": "term",
  "title": "Premium currency",
  "description": "The purchasable currency that buys gacha pulls, such as Primogems, Stellar Jade, or Saint Quartz, usually also earnable in play at a slower rate, and priced so one limited pull costs a consistent amount per game.",
  "aliases": [
    "gems",
    "primogems",
    "stellar jade",
    "crystals",
    "pull currency"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "terminology",
    "monetization"
  ],
  "verification": "verified",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
  "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Genshin Impact in-game shop and Wish Details",
      "url": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/home",
      "publisher": "HoYoverse",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "title": "FTC settlement with Genshin Impact developer over loot box and virtual currency practices",
      "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/genshin-impact-game-developer-will-be-banned-selling-lootboxes-teens-under-16-without-parental",
      "publisher": "US Federal Trade Commission",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "gacha",
    "free-to-play",
    "whale",
    "gacha-regulation"
  ],
  "markdown": "Premium currency is the in-game currency that buys [gacha](/wiki/gacha) pulls. Almost every gacha game runs the same dual-sourcing design: the currency can be bought with real money in tiered bundles, and it also drips from play through dailies, events, achievements, and new content. The earned stream keeps [free-to-play](/wiki/free-to-play) players pulling; the purchased stream is the business.\n\nReference costs per limited pull in major games, from their in-game shops: 160 Primogems in [Genshin Impact](/wiki/genshin-impact), 160 Stellar Jade in [Honkai: Star Rail](/wiki/honkai-star-rail), 160 Astrite in [Wuthering Waves](/wiki/wuthering-waves), 3 Saint Quartz in [Fate/Grand Order](/wiki/fate-grand-order), 600 Orundum in [Arknights](/wiki/arknights), 120 Pyroxene in [Blue Archive](/wiki/blue-archive), 300 Crystals in [Granblue Fantasy](/wiki/granblue-fantasy). [[1]](#ref-1) The absolute numbers are arbitrary; what matters is the real-money exchange rate and the earned income rate, which GachaWiki does not publish as a comparison because bundle pricing varies by region, promotion, and first-purchase bonuses.\n\nLayered currencies are a documented consumer-protection concern: real money converts to premium currency, which converts to pull tickets, and the multi-step conversion obscures the cash price of a draw. The US FTC's January 2025 settlement over Genshin Impact required, among other things, clearer virtual-currency exchange disclosure and a direct real-money purchase option for loot boxes in the United States. [[2]](#ref-2) The EU consumer-protection network published similar \"in-game virtual currency\" principles in March 2025; see [gacha regulation](/wiki/gacha-regulation).",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
  }
}