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Play-to-Earn Gaming with Yield Guild Games
Yield Guild Games is the DAO that invests in virtual world and blockchain games. Co-founder Gabby Dizon joins Kevin to discuss YGG's origins in the Axie Infinity "scholarship" program, governance mechanics in the DAO, and up-and-coming blockchain games.
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Investing in Yield Guild Games - Andreessen Horowitz
Last year, when COVID swept into the Philippines, nearly 7.3 million people in the country lost their jobs and their livelihoods as the country went into lockdown. A rural province of Nueva Ecija, near Cabanatuan City, was particularly hard hit when the local economy came to a grinding halt.
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YGG economic model
- Invest in game assets that can produce produce a yield via use (e.g. Axies)
- Lend assets to players that can generate yield with game assets
- Yield split: 70% scholar (gamer), 20% community manager (onboards+helps scholars), 10% YGG
YGG serves as an investor, investing in yield-generating game assets to provide to their scholars
YGG scholars also serve as a search function, voting on what game assets to purchase, how to manage game assets, and what additional games to pursue
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