@Yield Guild Games Let me tell you this like I would tell a friend who is sitting beside me late at night, scrolling, tired of hype, and just wants to understand what is real.
did not start as a complicated financial system. It started with a very simple, almost uncomfortable truth: the future of gaming was becoming expensive, and the people who loved games the most were slowly being locked out.
Blockchain games introduced ownership. That sounded beautiful at first. Players finally owned their characters, items, land, and progress. But ownership came with a price tag. To even begin playing properly, you needed NFTs, and those NFTs were not cheap. Suddenly, skill and dedication were no longer enough. Capital became the gatekeeper.
At the same time, another strange thing was happening. People with money were buying NFTs but not using them. They were busy, uninterested in grinding, or simply treating NFTs like passive assets. Powerful characters sat unused. Virtual land stayed empty. Items collected dust. Value existed, but life did not.
YGG was born in that silence between unused assets and unheard players.
Instead of asking how to make NFTs more expensive, YGG asked a different question. What if ownership and usage did not have to belong to the same person? What if people could cooperate without trusting a single boss, company, or middleman?
That question led directly to the DAO structure.
YGG chose not to become a company. That decision matters more than most people realize. A company centralizes power. A DAO distributes it. In YGG, rules are written into smart contracts, funds live in shared treasuries, and decisions are made through governance rather than orders. This does not make things easier. It makes them fairer.
At the center of everything is the treasury. This is not just a wallet. It is the collective memory of the guild. Every NFT inside it represents belief. Belief that a game matters. Belief that players will show up. Belief that coordination is possible.
Because of that belief, the treasury is protected carefully. Multisignature wallets are used so no single person can move assets alone. Decisions require agreement. Time slows things down on purpose. In a world where one wrong transaction is irreversible, caution is not weakness. It is responsibility.
Inside this treasury, NFTs are treated differently than most people expect. They are not trophies. They are tools. An NFT that is not being used is considered wasted potential. So YGG focuses obsessively on deployment. Who should use this NFT? Under what conditions? For how long? What happens if it underperforms? What happens if the game changes?
This thinking led to the scholarship model, which is where YGG first proved itself to the world.
A scholarship is simple to describe but hard to run. The guild owns NFTs. Players are given access to use them. Players earn in-game rewards. Those rewards are split between the player and the guild according to predefined rules.
Technically, this requires account management, tracking, security, and fair distribution. Socially, it requires trust, training, patience, and conflict resolution. Players are human. They get tired. They make mistakes. They disappear. Games change mechanics. Economies inflate and crash.
YGG never pretended that humans could be removed from the system. Instead, it built systems to protect humans from the worst outcomes of misaligned incentives. Smart contracts enforce rules. Managers support players. Governance adjusts parameters when reality changes.
As the system grew, complexity exploded. One game alone can feel like a full-time job to manage. Each game has its own economy, meta, risk profile, and community culture. Trying to manage all of that from one central structure would have failed.
That is why YGG introduced subDAOs.
A subDAO is a focused unit built around a specific game or ecosystem. It has its own strategy, contributors, players, and sometimes its own token. It moves faster because it is closer to the ground. It understands its game deeply because it lives inside it.
At the same time, subDAOs are not completely independent. Core assets often remain owned at the main treasury level to protect long-term value and alignment. This balance is intentional. It allows flexibility without sacrificing safety. Creativity without chaos.
Some subDAOs are tokenized. This is not just a financial trick. It is a social one. When players and contributors hold tokens tied to the ecosystem they work in, behavior changes. People stop thinking short-term. They start thinking about sustainability. Governance stops being abstract and starts feeling personal.
Above all of this sit vaults, which quietly shape how value flows through the entire system.
A vault is not just a place to store tokens. It is a programmable promise. When someone stakes tokens into a vault, they are saying they believe in a certain strategy strongly enough to lock their value behind it. Vaults define how rewards are distributed, over what time period, and under what conditions
Some vaults are tied to specific activities. Others reflect the performance of the entire guild. Many include lockups, vesting, and delayed rewards. These features are not there to punish users. They exist to protect the system from people who only want to extract value quickly and leave.
Gaming economies are fragile. If rewards can be farmed instantly and withdrawn instantly, long-term players suffer. Vault rules enforce patience. They reward commitment. They filter out purely mercenary behavior.
YGG also understands that accessibility matters. High transaction costs quietly exclude the very players the system claims to support. That is why reward systems are often deployed on cheaper networks. This is not a technical optimization. It is a moral choice. A guild that only works for large wallets is not a guild. It is a fund
Governance ties everything together. Discussions turn into proposals. Proposals turn into votes. Votes turn into execution. Some actions are automated through smart contracts. Others require multisignature execution because not everything lives on-chain. Games exist off-chain. People exist off-chain. Governance accepts that reality instead of pretending code can replace human judgment entirely.
When you step back, the full loop becomes clear
Capital enters the system and becomes NFTs.
NFTs are deployed into games.
Players turn time and skill into value.
Value flows back to the treasury.
Vaults distribute rewards to aligned participants.
Governance reflects on outcomes and adjusts strategy.
Then the cycle begins again, slightly wiser than before.
This system is not without risk. Games fail. Reward tokens inflate. Player interest shifts. Security mistakes can be devastating. YGG does not deny these risks. It spreads them. It makes them visible. It makes them shared.
And that is where the human part truly lives.
YGG is not promising easy money. It is offering shared responsibility. Shared upside. Shared failure. Shared learning.
At its core, it is an experiment in cooperation. An attempt to prove that people across the world can pool resources, write fair rules, and build something together without a single boss controlling the outcome.
It is imperfect. It is fragile. It will evolve.
But in a digital world that often feels cold and extractive, YGG is trying to build something warmer. Something that remembers that behind every NFT, every vault, every vote, there is a human being trying to find their place.
