Yield Guild Games with Gabby Dizon

What if you could put food on the table, fund your healthcare, and pay off your debt just by playing a game? This is what the Yield Gaming Guild helps people around the world do. They turn gamers into investors. 

Gabby Dizon, Co-Founder of Yield Guild Games (YGG), joins the YWhales team to discuss how blockchain is creating a new wave of capitalism. Dizon tells the story of Axie Infinity and explained how it took off as a result of an accidental discovery by the game’s community. After all, the magic of crypto games lies in treating the community as co-creators of the game and letting players own and create value in the game’s economy.

Most interestingly they discuss how blockchain is a democratizing technology. Dizon explains why blockchain’s effects are being felt by people in rural areas more than people in cities and how crypto games are changing the future of work. 

About Guest

Gabby Dizon is the Co-Founder of the Yield Guild Games and Altitude Games. Having been making games since 2003 he is a veteran of the gaming industry and is based in the Philippines where he grew up. Today, YGG engages 6,000 players, has offered $11MM in rewards to its gaming community and impressively has more than $1 Billion of assets under management in NFTs and Tokens. Most of YGG’s hires come from its community.

You’ll learn about:  

• How web 3.0 is changing the influence of communities on digital spaces. 
• Whether or not it is profitable to invest in and acquire game assets. 
• Why it is easier than ever to start a game studio. 
• The difference between the corporate metaverse vs. the open metaverse.
• How YGG and similar initiatives are democratizing access to the metaverse’s economic opportunities.
• How play-to-earn games are changing the societal narrative around the (financial) utility of playing games.  

 

Resources: 

Connect with Gabby Dizon: LinkedIn | Yield Guild Games

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

 

Play-to-earn Documentary

Gallery.so (for NFT management)

Open Sea NFT Marketplace

 

Timestamps 

 

[00:40] Gabby Dizon’s story and the birth of Yield Guild Games. 

[05:10] What does ERC-1155 mean (semi-fungible crypto tokens)? 

[06:12] The significance of community in web 2.0 vs. web 3.0. 

[09:40] The Yield Guild Game (YGG) community and its hierarchy. 

[12:26] How did the lending program begin in YGG. 

[13:17] What a normal week in YGG is like. 

[15:04] Why YGG owns more than one BILLION dollars worth of NFTs and tokens. 

[16:20] Are there too many game launches planned for the metaverse?

[18:00] Two types of metaverses that will be available in the future. 

[20:33] Democratizing access to the metaverse’s economic opportunities. 

[22:32] YGG’s favorite chains. 

[23:00] YGG’s game criteria: how they decide what games to buy.

[24:07] Who manages YGG’s NFT assets?

[25:26] What does it take to run an international gaming guild (turning gamers into investors)?

[28:34] How will crypto-literacy and play-to-earn games help rural provinces out of poverty?

[32:56] Will we see the shift into true VR/AR? 

[34:30] Which games will take off (and why)? 

[36:23] $YGG tokenomics 

[37:40] How web 3.0 is killing the 9-5 world of work. 

[40:50] Should you stay anonymous in the crypto world?

[43:09] How to manage and display your NFTs. 

[44:10] Play-to-earn Documentary

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.