The analysis of those "next 100x coins" on the market is overly optimistic, which makes it easy to miss the things that are truly changing the rules.
For example, Yield Guild Games—you've definitely heard of this name, but you probably haven't figured out exactly what it does.
Many people think that YGG is a gaming guild? Wrong. It is more like an alternative fund that specializes in investing in virtual assets, but the "workers" of this "fund" are players from all over the world.
Traditional games have a deadlock: the skins you buy with money and the equipment you grind out are ultimately just a string of data on the game company's server. When the game dies, your investment is worth nothing. Developers are bound by KPIs, creativity gives way to paid design, and players become the harvested chives.
Blockchain games were supposed to break this situation—assets on the chain, players truly owning them. But the problem is that individual retail players simply can't afford to play:
Top GameFi projects have entry NFTs that cost several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, making it daunting for ordinary people; if you misjudge, the asset price plummets, and you won't even have a chance to recover.
YGG's gameplay is quite clever. It is not a guild, but rather like an "asset management company in the gaming world":
Stock up first—massively purchase high-quality NFTs in various blockchain games: land, character cards, rare items, and build a large digital asset pool; Find more people - globally recruit players who know how to play (especially from regions with low time costs like Southeast Asia and Latin America), provide them with equipment, training, and even lending support; Final Profit Sharing - Players use YGG's assets to earn profits in the game, sharing them proportionally with the guild. YGG's NFTs continuously generate cash flow while the assets can also appreciate in value.
This model essentially combines "game asset securitization" + "global labor arbitrage" to form a self-reinforcing economic flywheel.
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The analysis of those "next 100x coins" on the market is overly optimistic, which makes it easy to miss the things that are truly changing the rules.
For example, Yield Guild Games—you've definitely heard of this name, but you probably haven't figured out exactly what it does.
Many people think that YGG is a gaming guild? Wrong. It is more like an alternative fund that specializes in investing in virtual assets, but the "workers" of this "fund" are players from all over the world.
Traditional games have a deadlock: the skins you buy with money and the equipment you grind out are ultimately just a string of data on the game company's server. When the game dies, your investment is worth nothing. Developers are bound by KPIs, creativity gives way to paid design, and players become the harvested chives.
Blockchain games were supposed to break this situation—assets on the chain, players truly owning them. But the problem is that individual retail players simply can't afford to play:
Top GameFi projects have entry NFTs that cost several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, making it daunting for ordinary people; if you misjudge, the asset price plummets, and you won't even have a chance to recover.
YGG's gameplay is quite clever. It is not a guild, but rather like an "asset management company in the gaming world":
Stock up first—massively purchase high-quality NFTs in various blockchain games: land, character cards, rare items, and build a large digital asset pool;
Find more people - globally recruit players who know how to play (especially from regions with low time costs like Southeast Asia and Latin America), provide them with equipment, training, and even lending support;
Final Profit Sharing - Players use YGG's assets to earn profits in the game, sharing them proportionally with the guild. YGG's NFTs continuously generate cash flow while the assets can also appreciate in value.
This model essentially combines "game asset securitization" + "global labor arbitrage" to form a self-reinforcing economic flywheel.