How Yield Guild Games Is Revolutionizing the Future of Work and Investment - Ep.298

Gabby Dizon, cofounder of Yield Guild Games, discusses his background in gaming, why he started Yield Guild Games, the performance of Axie Infinity, and more. Show topics:
how Gabby fell down the crypto rabbit hole
what inspired Gabby to co-found Yield Guild Games
what Yield Guild Games does
how blockchain games improve upon games in the traditional world
a real-life story of Yield Guild Games improving a player’s life
why it’s difficult for Yield Guild Games players to cash out earnings and how Yield Guild Games is trying to solve this issue via a partnership with XLD
why Gabby thinks the value of $SLP in Axie Infinity is dropping
what sort of game and tokenization mechanisms work best for blockchain games
why Gabby wants a new Ethereum token standard
what Gabby thinks makes an in-game NFT valuable
why Axie Infinity is popular in the Philippines and Venezuela 
where Yield Guild Games is attempting to expand next
how Yield Guild Games built out the tokenomics for YGG, the guild’s native token
what Gabby thinks about P2E games on chains outside of Ethereum
how Yield Guild Games is decentralizing 
how blockchain games are changing the nature of work 
what sort of jobs exist in the metaverse
why Gabby buys NFTs
Gabby’s crypto prediction for 2022
 
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Episode Notes
Gabby Dizon -- cofounder at Yield Guild Games
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabusch 
Website: https://y.at/%F0%9F%95%B9%F0%9F%A5%8A%F0%9F%96%BC%F0%9F%A5%83 
 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabbydizon/ 
Cointelegraph profile

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2021/04/15/gabby-dizon-making-computer-games-real 

Metaverse job board
https://twitter.com/gabusch/status/1416682528090460160

 
Yield Guild Games
Twitter: https://twitter.com/YieldGuild 
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/ygg

Blog: https://medium.com/yield-guild-games 
Primer: ​​https://cryptobriefing.com/defi-project-spotlight-yield-guild-games-dao-titan/ 
A16z investment into YGG

https://a16z.com/2021/08/19/investing-in-yield-guild-games/ 

YGG whitepaper

https://yieldguild.io/YGG-Whitepaper-English.pdf 

Scholarships

https://medium.com/yield-guild-games/yield-guild-explains-play-to-earn-and-scholarships-bb1e097c2a61 

Summary of 8 new YGG games:

https://coinyuppie.com/a-three-minute-overview-of-yggs-latest-8-games-included-in-the-investment-landscape/ 

 
Miscellaneous
Axie Infinity documentary:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo-BrASMHU4 

XLD Token = “real-world use case”
https://twitter.com/gabusch/status/1467763722257301507
https://xld.medium.com/xld-finance-and-yield-guild-games-partner-to-enable-play-to-earn-gamers-to-pay-bills-with-crypto-d35c80d29a0d

Play to Earn token economics

https://twitter.com/mikojava/status/1459041371289841666 

Axie Infinity + Filipino Workers
Good: 
https://twitter.com/kookoocryptotv/status/1461164984117784576

Declining wages: 

https://twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1459191090100244483 


 
Unchained Episodes on Axie Infinity
Axie Infinity’s July Revenue Tops $200 Million. Here’s How Filipinos Drove It (Leah Callon-Butler)
https://unchainedpodcast.com/axie-infinitys-july-revenue-tops-200-million-heres-how-filipinos-drove-it/

How Axie Infinity Boosted Revenue 400%+ in 30 Days (Aleksander Larsen, Axie Infinity COO)

https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-axie-infinity-boosted-revenue-400-in-30-days/ 


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