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As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to advance, industries around the world are actively exploring how to embed AI technology into business applications and daily life. From autonomous driving to smart healthcare, from robotic manufacturing to cloud computing, AI is becoming the core force driving social change. Accompanying this is a massive demand for computing power, data processing capabilities, and intelligent hardware. However, the lack of capital flow, asset management, and financial tools behind these demands often leaves these high-potential industries facing significant funding bottlenecks.

Don't be misled by the term 'Play-to-Earn', thinking that everyone is in it to get rich. In regions like Southeast Asia and Latin America where YGG is deeply rooted, the reality I see is: for many, what YGG provides is not an opportunity to get rich, but a chance to survive.
This brings up a grand sociological topic: in a future where AI is about to replace a large number of low-skilled laborers, where should those who lose their jobs go?
YGG is unintentionally conducting the largest global experiment in 'Digital Universal Basic Income (UBI)'.
When factories in the real world do not need so many workers, the virtual world still requires a large number of 'digital workers'. Games need people to maintain activity, AI models need people to label data, and DePIN networks need people to maintain nodes. YGG aggregates these fragmented and distributed digital demands and distributes them to people around the world who need income.

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.

We see traditional esports giants like Cloud9 and Team Liquid attempting to venture into the Web3 space, but their efforts are mostly superficial, and some even end in failure. Why are the titans who dominate CS:GO and LOL struggling in Web3 gaming? Meanwhile, a group like YGG, coming from a 'grassroots' background, manages to thrive in Web3 esports?
The root cause lies in the conflict between organizational structure and incentive models.
Traditional esports operates on a corporate model. Players are employees, earning fixed salaries and bonuses, with ownership belonging to the company owners. This model does not work in Web3. The core of Web3 gaming is 'ownership economy'. Players engage in games with the aim of asset ownership. If a guild continues to exploit players' surplus value like a traditional company, players will leave in no time.

In the blockchain world, Chainlink serves as an oracle, responsible for bringing real-world data such as currency prices and weather onto the blockchain, valued at tens of billions of dollars. However, I have found that in the Web3 gaming space, YGG is quietly taking on a similar 'oracle' role, and this value has not yet been fully recognized by the market.
Why do games need oracles? Because the vast majority of so-called Web3 games actually run their logic on centralized servers. The data of how many monsters you killed, how many hands you won, and how much you farmed are all in the project's black box. The blockchain has no idea.

Every time I talk about YGG with outsiders, the biggest obstacle is actually its name—Yield Guild Games. These three words were a golden sign in 2021, but in the context of 2025, they actually create a misunderstanding. Many people see 'Guild' and still picture the scene in World of Warcraft where hundreds of people are listening to commands on YY voice to raid dungeons.
This stereotype severely obscures the true form of YGG today.
If I were to redefine YGG right now, I think it resembles a 'decentralized human collaboration network' more. Sounds a bit abstract? Let's compare it to Uber. Uber itself doesn't drive cars; it provides a set of algorithms and protocols to match people with cars to those who want to ride. What YGG is doing now is essentially Uber for the Web3 gaming world.

The medieval alchemist spent his life pursuing the Philosopher's Stone, which could transform base metals into gold. In the digital age of the 21st century, we face the same challenge: how to transform the chaotic, false, and worthless data swamp that floods the internet into the pure, trustworthy, and financially valuable digital gold on the blockchain?
The internet generates 25 trillion bytes of data every day, but 99% of it is noise. Fake news, fraudulent data, AI-generated junk content... these base metals fill our screens. If we feed this data directly into the smart contracts of the blockchain, what we get is not gold, but a disaster of garbage in, garbage out.

(The Bible) records that humanity united to build a tower of hope that could reach heaven—the Tower of Babel. To thwart humanity's plans, God caused them to speak different languages, making communication impossible, and thus the plan failed, scattering humanity in all directions. In the world of blockchain, we seem to replay this tragedy. Bitcoin speaks the language of UTXO, Ethereum speaks the language of Solidity, and Solana speaks the language of Rust. These public chains are like isolated islands, each thriving on its own, yet remaining disconnected, with value separated by high walls.

Liu Cixin proposed the Dark Forest theory in (The Three-Body Problem): The universe is a dark forest, and every civilization is an armed hunter. This metaphor is equally applicable in the world of Web3, and even more cruel. Mempool is that dark forest, where hackers, arbitrage bots, and malicious MEV seekers lurk in the shadows, ready to pull the trigger on unsuspecting traders. Once a smart contract exposes its coordinates due to using incorrect data, it can be instantly liquidated, attacked, or reduced to zero.
For a long time, participants in DeFi were groping in the dark. They didn't know whether the prices fed to them by the oracle had been manipulated, nor did they know if the other end of the cross-chain bridge had collapsed. Until APRO Oracle lit up the first lighthouse.

If we compare the Bitcoin network to a huge, dormant silicon-based life form, then in the first fifteen years, although it had an extremely powerful brain (computational power and consensus) and an unbreakable skeleton (distributed ledger), it was essentially blind. It was sealed in the 'brain in a jar' of the blockchain, not knowing the external world’s gold price, unaware of who won the election, or even how the weather is now. It is a lonely computing genius, completely isolated from the real world.
Until the emergence of APRO Oracle, this silicon-based life form finally evolved eyes and ears.

At 7 AM, freelancer K, living in the new Shibuya district of Tokyo, wakes up. The moment the curtains automatically open, his personal AI assistant has already made the first decision of the day through the data stream of APRO Oracle. Last night, the coffee bean-producing region in Brazil encountered an unexpected frost, and APRO's weather node immediately relayed this data back to the chain. K's smart refrigerator contract, upon detecting this supply shock signal, automatically ordered three months' worth of coffee bean inventory at a locked low price for 2025 through the lightning network. All this happened in milliseconds, and when K took his first sip of coffee, he was unaware that he had just saved 40% in this tiny commodity arbitrage.

In the secondary market trading of cryptocurrencies, retail investors often feel like they are the "vulnerable group." You stare at the candlestick chart, watching the order book, carefully placing orders, thinking you are competing against the market. But in reality, in the "dark forest" of Ethereum, a general-purpose public chain, you are fighting against a group of predators with a god's eye view. MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) bots, high-frequency trading (HFT) frontrunners, and even malicious block builders exploit milliseconds of time differences and gas fee mechanisms to "steal" tens of billions of dollars from retail investors every year.

In the investment field, we often say we must distinguish between Alpha (excess returns) and Beta (market average returns). In the Web3 gaming sector, selecting the next hundredfold coin (Alpha) is extremely difficult. You might buy 10 shitcoins, lose 9 of them, and the last one doesn't even cover the losses.
In this context, YGG provides a perfect Beta option.
We must recognize a fact: YGG's fate is not tied to any single game. When Axie cooled off, YGG was still around; when StepN cooled off, YGG didn't die either. YGG is like a massive index fund, with its underlying assets being a basket of top Web3 gaming projects.

Looking back at the guild model in 2021, it was popular, but to be honest, that kind of production relationship was very backward. The 'scholarship' system at that time was essentially a feudal-style employment relationship. The guilds were the landlords, providing land (NFT); the players were the tenants, selling their labor. Players had to complete a certain number of potions every day and submit them on time; any slight negligence would result in account confiscation. This relationship was tense, oppressive, and lacked dignity.
But I have recently observed YGG's Superquests and GAP system and found that the production relationship has undergone a qualitative leap. Today's YGG players resemble 'freelancers' in modern society.

Entering the end of 2025, the global macroeconomic environment has undergone significant changes. As major central banks begin a rate-cutting cycle, the liquidity gates are once again opened. Against the backdrop of fiat currency devaluation and rising inflation, funds are frantically seeking inflation-resistant assets. Bitcoin, as digital gold, is the first to respond, while APRO Oracle ($AT ), as the core cash flow asset of the Bitcoin ecosystem, is becoming the best source of Beta returns in the eyes of smart money.
The logic is simple: an overflow of liquidity will lead to a surge in on-chain trading activity. Whether it is speculative MEME coin trading or institutional RWA asset allocation, oracles are needed to provide price and data verification. In a macro bull market, DeFi's TVL (Total Value Locked) often shows exponential growth, which means the number of API Calls for the APRO network will explode. Unlike those purely governance tokens, the tokenomics of APRO determines that network revenue directly feeds back into $AT —more calls mean more $AT being repurchased and destroyed, thus achieving the token's own deflation in an inflationary macro environment.

In the blockchain investment field, there's a long-standing theory called the "Fat Protocol" hypothesis. It posits that in the blockchain stack, value is concentrated in the underlying protocol layer (like Ethereum), while the upper application layer (DApps) captures only a small portion of that value. This theory explains Ethereum's massive market capitalization. However, as the cycle has evolved, I've found this theory to be failing. Especially after witnessing dYdX leaving Ethereum to build its own chain and the rise of Injective, I'm even more convinced that future alpha doesn't reside in general-purpose fat protocols, but rather in "sector-specific chains." Today, we'll use Injective as a perfect example to explore why "financial sector-specific chains" represent the ultimate form of public chain evolution.