{"id":98076,"date":"2019-08-08T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348252"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:13:00","slug":"animoca-brands-acquires-digital-collectibles-marketplace-quidd-for-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/animoca-brands-acquires-digital-collectibles-marketplace-quidd-for-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Animoca Brands acquires digital collectibles marketplace Quidd for $5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile game developer Animoca Brands has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animocabrands.com\/animoca-brands-to-acquire-quidd\">fully acquired digital collectibles marketplace Quidd<\/a> in a share-only deal worth $5 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quidd owns and runs an online marketplace where users can buy and sell digital collectibles like stickers, GIFs, cards, and 3D digital toys. It claims to have the &#8220;worlds largest assortment&#8221; of digital collectibles, and has established partnerships&nbsp;with big names like Disney, Marvel, HBO, and the NBA.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Animoca claims the deal significantly increases its economic potential in the digital collections sector, and will also help broker a &#8220;powerful set&#8221; of intellectual property and media relationships.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Quidd has generated over $10 million in revenue, and currently host a community of 6.8 million users who&#8217;ve collectively sold more than 2.1 billion virtual collectibles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first purchase Animoca has made in recent months, with the company also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/345712\/Animoca_Brands_acquires_token_mining_engine_maker_Gamma.php\">acquiring token mining engine maker Gamma<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340718\/Animoca_Brands_acquires_majority_stake_in_Trilliona_dev_Skytree_for_850k.php\"><em>Trilliona<\/em> developer Skytree<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile game developer Animoca Brands has fully acquired digital collectibles marketplace Quidd in a share-only deal worth $5 million.&nbsp; Quidd owns and runs an online marketplace where users can buy and sell digital collectibles like stickers, GIFs, cards, and 3D digital toys. It claims to have the &#8220;worlds largest assortment&#8221; of digital collectibles, and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}