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/