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What Changed My Mind About How Value Is Actually Created In Crypto
For a long time I treated YGG like most people treat gaming projects. As a sector play. Something you buy when gaming narratives heat up and forget when liquidity moves elsewhere. That mindset broke for me after watching several cycles fail in the same way. Good tech did not matter. Strong tokenomics did not matter. Even big funding rounds did not matter. What mattered was whether a project could coordinate humans at scale when incentives were no longer attractive. That is the moment I started seeing YGG differently.
Why Coordination Is Harder Than Liquidity In This Market
Liquidity is easy to move. You pay for it and it comes. Coordination is expensive, slow and fragile. It requires trust, routines, leadership and shared context. Most crypto projects skip this because it cannot be accelerated with money. They build protocols first and hope communities appear later. YGG inverted that order. It built human structure first and layered incentives on top. When I compare this to dozens of failed gaming and social projects, the difference is obvious. YGG survives periods where rewards flatten because coordination remains intact.
How YGG Solves A Problem Most Projects Pretend Does Not Exist
The unspoken problem in crypto is not adoption. It is fragmentation. Users jump between chains, narratives and apps without building identity anywhere. YGG counters this by anchoring people inside SubDAOs. Region, language, culture and schedule become part of the system. That makes participation sticky. When I looked at retention patterns during recent market drawdowns, YGG contributors did not disappear. They slowed down slightly but stayed connected. That is coordination strength, not financial strength.
Why I Do Not Compare YGG To Games Or Guilds Anymore
Comparing YGG to a single game misses the point. Comparing it to other guilds also misses the point. Many guilds are capital allocators or marketing funnels. YGG is closer to a coordination protocol. It organizes when people show up, what they do, and how effort is measured. That makes it more comparable to early DAO infrastructure than to entertainment products. Once I framed it this way, the valuation logic changed completely in my head.
What Makes YGG A Potential Outlier In The Next Cycle
Every cycle eventually rewards projects that solve structural problems rather than narrative problems. In the last cycle it was liquidity and composability. In the next one I believe it will be coordination and identity. YGG already operates where these two intersect. It does not promise instant scale. It promises controlled scale. That is slower, but it breaks less often. In a market that is tired of things breaking, that matters.
Where I See The Weakness In This Coordination Model
Coordination creates dependency on leadership quality. If SubDAO leaders burn out or misalign, momentum drops. Coordination also requires constant maintenance. Silence kills structure faster than bad incentives. These are real risks. They do not show up on dashboards, but they show up in communities. I watch these signals closely because they tell me more about YGGs health than any chart.
Why I Still Choose To Track YGG Despite Those Risks
I track YGG because it represents a design choice most crypto avoids. Building for humans first. It is slower. It is harder to measure. It does not create clean hype cycles. But it creates resilience. And in my experience, resilience is the rarest asset in this industry. If coordination becomes the next scarce resource in crypto, YGG is already years ahead of the curve.
