Quidd: Difference between revisions

}}

'''Quidd''' was a privately held American collectible app founded in 2016 by Michael Bramlage and Erich Wood.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quidd |url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/quidd-inc |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=Linkedin}}</ref> According to their LinkedIn, the app had 19 employees, over 8 million users and represented 325 brands as collectible digital stickers. In 2017, the app was #1 in search and #5 in the App Store's entertainment category.<ref>{{Cite web |last=@quidd |date=13 Oct 2017 |title=1️⃣ in Trending searches and 5️⃣in Entertainment?! We’ll take it! 👏😎🎉 |url=https://x.com/quidd/status/918843147429564416 |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=[[X]]}}</ref> In 2019, the company would be bought by the Hong Kong-based company Animoca Brands, who would move the 2.1 billion individually serialized digital collectibles on the blockchain.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Takahashi |first=Dean |date=7 Aug 2019 |title=Animoca Brands buys Quidd for up to $8 million as it moves into blockchain collectibles |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/animoca-brands-buys-quidd-for-up-to-8-million-as-it-moves-into-blockchain-collectibles/ |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=VentureBeat}}</ref> In 2022, the company would introduce "Mintables," which let users turn their stickers into NFTs<ref name="A2022">{{Cite web |last=Otieno |first=Nicholas |date=22 Jun 2022 |title=Quidd Launches New Platform Mintables, Enabling Users to Mint Digital Collectibles into NFTs |url=https://blockchain.news/news/quidd-launches-new-platform-mintablesenabling-users-to-mint-digital-collectibles-into-nfts |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=blockchain.news}}</ref> and convert them into Etherium.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bramlage |first=Michael |date=22 Mar 2023 |title=Lightning Fast Minting (TM) 😀 Also, don’t have ETH or even know what ETH is? Who cares. We’ll cover your gas fees. What’s a gas fee? Who cares. Doesn’t matter either. Don’t want to mint? Who cares. You don’t have to. It’s up to the collector, as it should be. |url=https://x.com/mbram/status/1638599791490768909 |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=[[X]]}}</ref> These brands included Dr. Seuss,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Loizos |first=Connie |date=22 Dec 2021 |title=This Dapper Labs-backed company is turning Dr. Seuss characters into NFT trading cards |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/22/this-dapper-labs-backed-company-is-turning-dr-seuss-characters-into-nft-trading-cards/ |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=TechCrunch}}</ref> L.O.L Suprise,<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 Mar 2022 |title=MGA Entertainment Partners With Quidd for L.O.L. Surprise! ™ Digital Collectibles and NFTs |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mga-entertainment-partners-quidd-l-120000526.html |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=finance.yahoo.com}}</ref> Disney,<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 May 2022 |title=Bare Tree Media and Quidd Team Up to Offer Digital Collectibles for Popular Licensed Brands |url=https://www.newswire.com/news/bare-tree-media-and-quidd-team-up-to-offer-digital-collectibles-for-21714386 |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=NewsWire}}</ref> Spongebob,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bramlage |first=Michael |date=30 Dec 2023 |title=Quiddward! Super excited for @SpongeBob on @quidd … It’ll be hard to stay quiet on this one. Details coming soon! |url=https://x.com/mbram/status/1708162937871835631 |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=[[X]]}}</ref> Rick and Morty,<ref name="A2022" /> and others.