Removal of Trade Tokens
Trade tokens will be completely removed and players will no longer need to exchange cards to obtain the currency required for trading.
Instead, trading cards of three-diamond, four-diamond, and one-star rarity will now require shinedust.
When you open a booster pack, shinedust will be automatically earned if you obtain a card that is already registered in your Card Dex. Currently, shinedust is also required to obtain flair, so we are looking into increasing the amount offered since it will also be needed for trading. Altogether, this change should allow you to trade more cards than you could before this update.
Trade tokens you currently own can be converted to shinedust when the item is removed from the game.
There are no changes in how one-diamond and two-diamond rarity cards are traded.
This is what they’ve told us Silver. HOWEVER it does say when they are “removed” that we can convert, which they’ve already started allowing us to do in-game. This meaning, your tokens are ready to swap for dust or other things! Hope this helped!
EDIT The short, blunt answer is spend them because they will eventually be deleted!
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/17262/trading-feature-update
