There is a famous 'PayPal Mafia' in Silicon Valley, referring to the people who came out of PayPal and later founded giants like Tesla, LinkedIn, and YouTube. In the field of Web3 gaming, I am beginning to see the prototype of the 'YGG Mafia'.
If you delve into the backgrounds of many founders of popular blockchain games now, the leaders of top Web3 gaming guilds, or the well-known KOLs in the blockchain gaming space, you will be surprised to find that many of them were originally scholars, managers, or early community members of YGG.
This is the spillover effect of a top ecosystem.
YGG has actually served as the Whampoa Military Academy for Web3 gaming over the past few years. It has taught thousands of people what a wallet is, what an NFT is, and what community governance is. As these people matured, some stayed at YGG, while others went out to start their own businesses.
But this does not mean the loss of YGG. On the contrary, after these people go out, they still maintain a close connection with YGG. The new games they develop have YGG as their preferred partner; the new guilds they establish use YGG's Onchain Guilds as their underlying protocol; and their investments are interconnected with YGG.
This network of connections based on 'alumni relationships' constitutes YGG's most invisible yet strongest moat.
Other newly emerged guild projects may have better technology and more funding, but they lack the years of accumulation and this group of 'alumni' scattered across various corners of the industry. When YGG calls out, this responsiveness is at an industry-wide level.
To judge whether a project is truly a leader, do not only look at its current TVL (Total Value Locked), but also consider how much talent it has produced. When half of the core strength of an industry has ties to a certain organization, that organization has already established an unbeatable position. YGG is becoming this 'hegemony' in the Web3 gaming world.
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