Play-to-Earn, Gaming Guilds and Financial Inclusion in the Philippines with Luis Buenaventura of Yield Guild Games

In this episode, I speak with Luis Buenaventura, Philippines country manager for Yield Guild Games, or YGG, which is a play-to-earn gaming guild, giving metaverse players opportunities to earn in blockchain-based currency.

Luis has also been a pioneer of web3 in the Philippines. He has founded several businesses, including syndeo media, Infinite.ly, Rebit.ph, and most recently, the BloomX cryptocurrency exchange. Luis is an NFT artist, founder of the Cryptopop Art Guild, which supports underprivileged Filipino artists, author of two books on cryptocurrencies, and has been a contributing writer to Rappler and Bitsonline.

Lastly, I’ve been following Luis’ weekly newsletter, Cryptotoday for quite a few months now and can say that I have personally learned so much from his thoughtful analysis and takes, and I’m sure you will too.

YGG is a decentralized autonomous organization or DAO that helps scholars access play to earn games like Axie Infinity. YGG was founded in 2020. They raised 12.5M in a token sale in July of 2021 and raised another 4.6M from Andreesen Horowitz in August of 2021. You can learn more about them by visting yieldguild.io.