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/ 

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