Quirkie Connection with Papii and Sho

Host: Sho (@AgogoKaren) with co-host Papii (@RealPapii) · Fri, 10 Jul 2026 · 1:53:30 · 9 speakers

TL;DR

• The debut of a new Friday "Quirkie Connection" Space — Sho hosting alongside Papii, who carried much of the project talk before the room eased into community banter.
• Papii walked through OpenSea's app beta access for Quirkies (via TestFlight).
• Big focus on the Digitoys partnership: digital collectible stickers / blind boxes built in Digitoys' style, alongside Disney, Star Wars, and Masters of the Universe IP — with OG Quirkie holders getting a free claim or airdrop.
• sols (@solsweb3) announced Kabu's move from Abstract to Ethereum mainnet, sparking a friendly consensus that mainnet is the "collectibles layer" of web3.
• Papii shared his full backstory — journalism degree, nightclub gigs, going 70k in debt, pizza kitchens, and eventually buying Quirkies — and updates on QRCs trending toward physical cards.
• The back half dissolved into an extended pizza-and-fast-food tangent (Chipotle chip crimes, tropical smoothie chaos, bagelism) before Papii dangled a grail-pizza Quirkie trade and went off to pack for Japan.

Highlights

[9:51] The OpenSea recognition and app access. Papii explained the philosophy of spacing announcements out ("people are excited for one day" no matter how many things you drop), then covered OpenSea adding Quirkies as one of the last projects into their app beta. He framed it as an honor rather than a groundbreaking event, and praised a new hero video from Zach Brenner showing the characters in action.

[17:01] sols announces Kabu on ETH. sols (@solsweb3)^* described the roughly six-to-eight-month decision to bridge Kabu from Abstract to Ethereum, thanking the Abstract team and community while explaining that an IP play is a "slower but more fruitful grind" that belongs where the collectors and network effects are.

[18:35] Papii's mainnet thesis. Papii argued NFTs are "just best on mainnet," noting that side chains largely reshuffled the same ~10k+ collectors rather than bringing new users, and confessed he sometimes forgets he owns a Klanos because OpenSea still doesn't surface Solana NFTs.

[26:11] Luna's "collection layer" framing. Luna (@LunaPrime)^* said she'd onboarded to the OpenSea app mobile-only and found it seamless, then offered the line that stuck: mainnet is the tidy "collection layer of web3," and projects like Kabu, Regens and MetaVixens are "finding their way home."

[29:33] The Digitoys deep dive. Papii recounted meeting Digitoys' Will at the Pudgy HQ meeting, their instant mutual interest, and how Molly now has creative autonomy on Quirkie stickers. He detailed the blind-box mechanic (unrevealed casings, rarity tiers, secondary trading) and stressed the low-risk upside for holders — worst case, more free art; best case, exposure to Disney/Star Wars collectors already on the platform.

[45:15 / 46:23] QRCs and the "Trojan horse." Papii called the QRCs deliberately non-tradeable and non-transferable so the art stays the point, describing them as "a bit of a Trojan horse for something much bigger," and said they're now trending toward physical cards — after an IP/trading-card veteran friend "lost his mind" over Molly's work.

[1:01:50] Papii's origin story. Prompted by sols, Papii traced his path: a comms/journalism degree, an Empire State Building PR internship (Doritos Locos Taco campaign), opening an Atlantic City nightclub, 70k in debt and moving back home, a decade building a company to billions in sales, then pivoting to consulting/investing and finally buying Quirkies after chasing the deal for a year and a half. He credited his parents' work ethic and years of delivery-driving for teaching him gratitude and people skills — "this is the hospitality industry."

[1:47:00] The Foley trade and a grail on offer. Jake (@JakeBalchNFT)^* came up "mad" that Papii let Foley grab a perfect quirk. Papii explained the mix-up (Foley meant a Finch, not the ultra-rare rainbow) and his standing rule: he'll trade his own quirks if it takes one or two off the floor. He then floated his ultra-rare rainbow pizza (#1534) for a floor pizza quirk plus 0.25 ETH — his "poppy deal for the day."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "You can announce like five big things in one day, and then people are excited for one day." — Papii [9:51]
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• "If our project goes to zero on ETH, I know it's my fault." — sols [21:14]
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• "Mainnet just really feels... we're like the collection layer of web3." — Luna [26:11]
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• "You don't really know inflation until you've done laundry in a hotel... that's eight dollars per sock." — Papii [53:54]
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• "I'm not just a bagel, like I'm the embodiment of the belief system of bagels." — Bagel [33:11]
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• "Onboarding a great collector is worth so much more than every little penny." — Papii [1:48:38]
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Who said what

• Sho (@AgogoKaren), host: Opened and steered the Space, asked the questions that drew out the OpenSea and Digitoys details, and kept the room warm (and mildly chaotic) throughout.
• Papii (@RealPapii), co-host: Carried most of the substance — OpenSea beta, Digitoys, QRCs, mainnet philosophy — plus a candid life story and an end-of-Space grail trade offer.
• sols (@solsweb3): Announced Kabu's move to Ethereum and reflected on ownership, IP building, and finance-world lessons from his father; also the tropical smoothie horror-story raconteur.
• Luna (@LunaPrime): Endorsed the OpenSea mobile flow, coined the "collection layer" framing, and served as the room's food-alpha authority (do not microwave a bagel).
• Superhighgasfees (@SHGFees): Confessed to botching an entire batch of Chipotle chips as a cashier — the running punchline of the food tangent.
• Bagel (@Bagelism): Delivered the pizza-delivery + Incubus lore and the theology of "bagelism"; got a pizza quirk shilled his way.
• Piff (@RealPiffsPeak): Checked in from a nap, headed to the park with the kids, keeping his usual content-creator presence light.
• Jake (@JakeBalchNFT): Vented (jokingly) about the quirk that got away and set up Papii's Foley-trade explainer; also a lapsed Chipotle loyalist.

Worth a full listen

• [29:33 – 43:40] — Digitoys walkthrough. Papii's play-by-play of how the partnership came together and how the blind-box/sticker mechanics work is more concrete than any summary; useful if you plan to claim or collect.
• [1:01:50 – 1:18:00] — Papii's backstory. A genuinely candid arc from debt and delivery driving to buying Quirkies — the "why he operates the way he does" segment.
• [1:24:00 – 1:41:00] — The food tangent. Not informative, but this is where the room's chemistry lives: Chipotle chip crimes, arrested smoothie coworkers, bagelism, and Luna's pizza-purist rules. The five-minute version can't carry the timing.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.