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
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- https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2021/04/15/gabby-dizon-making-computer-games-real
- Metaverse job board
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- 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
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- https://a16z.com/2021/08/19/investing-in-yield-guild-games/
- YGG whitepaper
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- https://yieldguild.io/YGG-Whitepaper-English.pdf
- Scholarships
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- https://medium.com/yield-guild-games/yield-guild-explains-play-to-earn-and-scholarships-bb1e097c2a61
- Summary of 8 new YGG games:
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- https://coinyuppie.com/a-three-minute-overview-of-yggs-latest-8-games-included-in-the-investment-landscape/
Miscellaneous
- Axie Infinity documentary:
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo-BrASMHU4
- XLD Token = “real-world use case”
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- 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
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- https://twitter.com/mikojava/status/1459041371289841666
- Axie Infinity + Filipino Workers
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- Good:
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- https://twitter.com/kookoocryptotv/status/1461164984117784576
- Declining wages:
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-axie-infinity-boosted-revenue-400-in-30-days/