Quidli

Quidli is a social identity resolution protocol that bridges Web2 social graphs and Web3 wallets, letting anyone send cryptocurrency to a Twitter handle, Discord username, GitHub profile, email address, or phone number — without ever asking the recipient for a wallet address.

What It Does

At its core, Quidli maps social identities to on-chain wallet addresses. A developer passes a handle such as an X username or a Discord ID to the Quidli Connect API and receives back a verified wallet address. If the recipient has not yet linked a wallet, Quidli can generate a non-custodial wallet on their behalf and route funds to it, allowing the recipient to claim tokens when they are ready.

This handle-to-wallet resolution layer removes one of the most persistent points of friction in crypto payments: sourcing and verifying wallet addresses from collaborators, contributors, or community members who may not yet be deeply embedded in Web3.

Core Product: Quidli Connect

Quidli's primary developer-facing product is Quidli Connect, an API and MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes social identity resolution as a callable service. Developers integrating Connect can resolve handles from X, Discord, Telegram, GitHub, LinkedIn, email, and phone to wallet addresses, trigger token sends to social identities programmatically, schedule recurring payouts or one-off distributions to a list of handles, and enable AI agents to autonomously pay contacts using social identities as the addressing layer.

The MCP integration is a more recent development aimed at AI agent builders. By surfacing Quidli's identity graph through a standard MCP endpoint, AI agents can resolve and pay human contacts — or other agents — using familiar social identifiers rather than raw public keys. As of mid-2026, the team is actively encouraging developers to build reputational social experiences for agents on top of Quidli Connect MCP.

Supported Networks and Assets

Quidli operates across multiple blockchains. On the EVM side it supports Ethereum, Polygon PoS, OP Mainnet, Arbitrum, and Base, with USDC and EURC (Circle's euro stablecoin) as primary assets. Quidli is a Circle Alliance member, reflecting tight integration with Circle's stablecoin infrastructure.

Solana support was added more recently. Quidli Connect now handles SOL and SPL tokens, letting users send SOL or SPL tokens to contacts across X, Telegram, Discord, GitHub, phone numbers, and email, with the Connect API managing non-custodial wallet authentication and generation for new recipients on the receiving end.

Platform Integrations

Quidli provides bots and mini-apps for the platforms where contributor communities already operate:

• Discord: A bot allowing server members to tip, reward, or distribute tokens without leaving the platform
• Slack: In-chat token sends for workplace teams
• Telegram: Mini-app integration for in-conversation payments
• GitHub: Rewards tied directly to repository contributors by handle
• Email and phone: Outbound sends reachable to recipients with no existing crypto presence

The service is available on Android, iOS, and web, with regional coverage spanning North America, Europe, LATAM, APAC, and MENA.

History and Team

Quidli was founded in October 2018 by Justin Ahn (CEO), Florent Bolzinger, Guillaume Figielski, and Gagandeep Singh. The founding team connected in part through an MBA program in France, and initially built Quidli as a dog-food test of their own compensation vision — running the company itself on token-based equity.

The original concept was a decentralized work-for-equity platform: organizations could issue ERC-1400 security tokens representing real equity to freelancers, employees, and contributors, replacing traditional cap-table tools with on-chain instruments. Quidli offered legal document templates for US and French jurisdictions and charged nothing for up to five shareholders, then $1 per person per month. ConsenSys Ventures' Tachyon accelerator became the company's first external investor in Q3 2018. In November 2019 Quidli raised a $380,000 pre-seed round.

Over the following years the product evolved from equity issuance toward a broader social payments model. The ERC-1400 layer gave way to a lighter approach: token rewards and incentives embedded directly into collaboration tools — Discord bots, Telegram integrations, GitHub hooks — so that compensating contributors in crypto required no more effort than sending a chat message.

The current iteration, Quidli Connect, represents the clearest expression of that trajectory: a composable, API-first identity resolution layer that now extends to AI agents through MCP.

Solana Fit

Solana's fast finality and low per-transaction costs make it a natural settlement layer for the high-frequency, small-denomination payments that Quidli's use cases produce. Tipping a Discord contributor a fraction of a dollar in USDC, or rewarding a GitHub committer with a token, only makes economic sense on chains where fees are negligible. Quidli's SOL and SPL token support on the Connect API extends these same dynamics to the Solana ecosystem, letting Solana-native teams and AI agents use familiar social handles as their payment addressing layer rather than raw base58 public keys.