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YGG official page / hivatalos oldala: https://yieldguild.io/
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Entry point / Beszállási pont: 1.3 – 1-6
Our point of entry / A mi belépési pontunk: 1.487
TP 1: 1.8 (+413point)
TP 2: 2.4 (+913point)
TP 3: 2.9 (+1413point)
TP 4: 3.4 (+1913 point)
THE FOUNDING TEAM
GABBY, BERYL AND OWL
The story of Yield Guild Games tracks back to 2018, when gaming industry veteran Gabby Dizon began to lend his own Axies to other Axie Infinity players who couldn’t afford to buy their own. By October 2020, it was clear how this was helping Filipinos create another source of income during the pandemic while doing something they enjoyed.
It sparked the idea to create a global network of players and investors who would help each other get started with NFT games. With fintech entrepreneur Beryl Li and developer Owl of Moistness joining Gabby as co-founders, YGG was brought to life with the mission of onboarding millions of people into the play-to-earn revolution.
Introduction
About
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in
non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The
organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its
community-owned assets for maximum utility and sharing its profits with its token holders.
Vision
YGG combines the best of the non-fungible token (NFT) and the decentralized finance (DeFi)
space, bringing yield farming to game economies while adding value to these virtual worlds by
developing the content and economy of these games.
We want to own and develop assets in the metaverse as we believe that virtual economies will
be more valuable than real-world economies over time. At the same time, we want to create
value in the virtual world for our guild members to thrive in a virtual environment – the
competitive gamers, the artists, and content creators that populate the metaverse.
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State of the market
YGG sits at the intersection of three markets each of which is has strong growth potential:
● NFT sales topped $2 billion in Q1 of 2021. NBA Top Shots and NFT artists, such as
Beeple, have pushed NFTs into mainstream vernacular.
● DeFi tokens hit $50B in total locked value.
● There are 70m crypto wallet holders.
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● The global gaming market reached a value of US $167.9 Billion in 2020.
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● The rise of virtual worlds, such as Decentraland, and blockchain games, such as Axie
Infinity and The Sandbox, have gained a fully diluted valuation of over $1.8B USD.
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Note: Numbers taken as of end of March 2021.
Activities of YGG
YGG’s goal is to maximize the value of NFTs used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based
games. Its protocol is automated by smart contracts instructed by consensus through the DAO
based on governance proposals and voting of a distributed network of token holders.
Activities of YGG include:
● Building a global community of play-to-earn gamers who play competitively to collect
in-game rewards (e.g. players in Axie Infinity earning tokens from winning battles);
● Producing revenue through the rental or sale of YGG-owned NFT assets for a markup
(e.g the resale of land in The Sandbox or renting Axies to players as part of a
profit-sharing model, known as a scholarship);
● Allowing the community to participate in the DAO by passing proposals and voting;
● Coordinating research and development for gamers in the DAO to arbitrage on yield
generation by being competitive in metaverse-related games.
3 https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/decentraland
2https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/03/01/2184028/0/en/Global-Gaming-Market-2021-to-2026-Industry-Trends-Sha
re-Size-Growth-Opportunity-and-Forecasts.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20latest%20report,US%24%20167.9%20Billion%
20in%202020.
1 https://www.statista.com/statistics/647374/worldwide-blockchain-wallet-users/
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Business Model
As technology allows more people to move more of their lives online, an entire digital economy
is developing inside these new virtual worlds, known as “the metaverse.” YGG’s business model
builds real-world value from fundamental metaverse economics.
Business Thesis
● The primary revenue of the DAO will come from leveraging YGG-owned NFT assets,
either directly, or indirectly, via a rental program where guild members utilize the assets
in exchange for a portion of the in-game rewards going directly to YGG;
● In the case of in-game assets such as land, revenue may be generated by third party
(non-guild members) conducting economic activities on that in-game land;
● NFT ownership will benefit from the rise of the in-game asset’s economic value being
reflected in the value of its native fungible token on the open market.
The value of all activities in YGG will be captured in the fully diluted market capitalisation of
YGG governance tokens.
Selection Criteria
The YGG business thesis requires the following elements of a play-to-earn game to make it
suitable for selection by the DAO:
- A virtual land-based economy which can be acquired;
- A virtual economy with a native token;
- Play-to-earn functionality where players are rewarded native tokens for in-game activity.
Launch Plans
At launch our treasury and our guild will focus on the following play-to-earn games that have
already shown strong potential and community support:
● Axie Infinity produced by Sky Mavis;
● The Sandbox produced by TSB;
● League of Kingdoms produced by NPlus.
As play-to-earn evolves, YGG’s portfolio will expand to other games that fulfill the criteria and
yield requirements outlined above as governed by the DAO.
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Value Proposition
Team Focus
The YGG team will work on the following:
● Acquire
4 new players, ambassadors, community managers, and game masters;
● Incentivize
5 participants through ‘Level-Up’ reward program, ‘Max-Level’ reward
program, class leaders, guild events, tournaments, and voting participation;
● Distribute token grants;
● Build new guild features;
● Build technology to expand its core activities of rentals and yield;
● Purchase virtual gaming assets.
Value Creation
YGG’s value is derived from the following:
● Yield gained from assets acquired by treasury;
● Yield produced from active play of treasury’s virtual assets;
● % of APY token rewards generated from treasury’s farming activities;
● Rewards generated from esports;
● Rewards generated from raids;
● Rewards generated from sponsorships;
● Rewards generated from subscription fees;
● Rewards generated from merchandise sales.
Token Usage
YGG tokens can be used for the following:
● Stake YGG for token rewards related to its overall activities;
● Stake YGG for rewards related to specific activities;
● Stake YGG for exclusive content;
● Stake YGG to vote and participate in the DAO;
● Stake YGG to subscribe to exclusive merchandise;
● Use YGG tokens to pay for services in its network.
5 https://www.notion.so/Leveling-up-for-YGG-members-515719902f6c43b1a937287693b75e0b
4 https://www.notion.so/YGG-Structure-051d00314a6d44dca1f330bb62da6b86
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The Treasury
The role of the YGG treasury is to oversee the management of YGG assets to maximize value
returned to the YGG DAO over time.
Economic Activities
● Purchase of assets in the form of cryptocurrencies, virtual assets in the metaverse,
SAFTs, in-game tokens (such as, but not limited to, Small Love Potion (SLP), which is a
token earned by winning battles in Axie Infinity and is required in order to breed Axie
NFTs), as well as other NFTs to contribute to the development of metaverse economies;
● Arbitrage farms to maximise yields;
● Manage locked, unvested, undistributed tokens of all parties;
● Provide guidance in events that involve debt and interest payments, acquisition of assets
including any buybacks and future fundraising rounds;
● Perform financial operations such as accounting, audits, reporting and tax.
Treasury assets are managed by the three co-founders via a multisignature Gnosis wallet.
Two out of three Trezor hardware wallet signatures will be required per transaction.
Fund raising
YGG has secured $1.325M in a seed round led by Delphi Digital
6 and $4M in an A round led by
Bitkraft.
6 https://medium.com/yield-guild-games/yield-guild-games-raises-1-325mil-seed-led-by-delphi-digital-33f885fe307b
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Distribution of funds
Ultimately, the DAO will be responsible
for the decisions regarding the
distribution of funds from the treasury on
an ongoing basis.
Prior to the DAO being in place and
sufficiently decentralized, the founding
team have proposed the following
distribution of funds based on the
amount raised including projected funds
from the token generation event.
Funds raised will be distributed
according to Figure 1 (right).
Figure 1: YGG Distribution of Funds
Portfolio Reporting
There are plans to add to the website a portfolio tracking component which allows guild
members to see the financial and performance data of YGG in real-time.
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The DAO
Participants in the DAO will be owners and managers of the entire ecosystem of the YGG
Network. Decision making will be prorated based on a participant’s ownership to the overall
DAO through a YGG token ownership. Tokens will represent voting rights in the DAO.
YGG Token Issuance
There will be 1,000,000,000 YGG tokens minted in aggregate. Distribution of supply will occur in
multiple phases scheduled at different dates and for different purposes. Allocation is as follows:
Figure 2: YGG token supply breakdown
The month on month distribution breakdown can be found in this document.
See linear (Fig. 3) and log scale (Fig. 4) graphs below.
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Figure 3: Tokens in circulation (Linear)
Figure 4: Tokens In Circulation (Log)
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Token Allocation Breakdown
Treasury
133,333,334 (13.3% of total allocation)
The YGG Treasury will hold 13.3% of the total token allocation with no lock up period and no
vesting condition.
Founders
150,000,000 (15% of total allocation)
Members of the founding team will have a 2 year lock-up period. After which, tokens vest
linearly for a further 3 years.
Figure 5: Founders Tokens Distribution Schedule
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Advisors
17,500,000 (2.0% of total allocation)
Advisors will have a 1 year lock up period. During the 2nd year, advisory tokens vest linearly for
12 months as can be seen in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Advisor Tokens Distribution Schedule
Investors (Seed & Series A)
249,166,666 (24.9% of total allocation)
Seed Investors will have 20% of their allocation released at the network launch. 80% of their
token allocation will have a 1 year lock up period and then their tokens will vest linearly for 1
year after the lock up period.
More information about the Seed Raise could be found here.
Series A Tranche A investors will have a 2 year lock up. After this period, a 3 year vesting
schedule. Series A Tranche B investors will have a 1 year lock up. After this period, a 2 year
linear vesting schedule. The aggregate token distribution for investors can be seen in Figure 7.
Excess tokens, an amount to be determined, will be released during the token generation event.
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Figure 7: Investors Tokens Distribution Schedule
Community Allocation
450,000,000 (45% of total allocation)
Distributed to the DAO community members through its various community programs to be
launched in later dates shown in Figure 8. See ‘Community Programs’ for more information.
Figure 8: Community Tokens Distribution Schedule
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Network Token Rewards
● The community will vote to switch on the feature of distributing token rewards to token
holders. This is where we will introduce staking vaults to receive the rewards directly
through smart contracts into their accounts. Mechanics of the distribution will be subject
to proposal submission. The intention is to create staking vaults to earn rewards from the
network as an APY.
● YGG will eventually release various staking vaults allowing token stakes to earn rewards
ranging from YGG’s overall activities to a specific activity.
● A vault may also be designed to have a combination of token rewards from activities of
the network and extra membership privileges such as discounts and exclusive
merchandise. A high level explanation could be found under the subDAO and the
Staking Vault section of this whitepaper.
● The mechanics of staking vaults that YGG launches will be posted on YGG’s official
website and blog channels.
Early Structure
The founders will be the core team and the earliest participants of the DAO. It will gradually
consist of early investors, asset owners, and players in the blockchain gaming and NFT space.
YGG token holders will eventually replace the early team as administrators of the protocol.
Governance Proposals and Voting
Proposals and voting will be related but not limited to the following subjects: - Technology
- Products and projects
- Token distribution
- Governance structure
Any guild member part of the YGG network can send proposals through the YGG website, for
the ecosystem to cast their votes. Decisions will be based on the majority of votes and
implemented through a distributed system. Tokens may be granted as rewards to community
members that create winning proposals for the DAO to implement. More information will be
published on the official website in the coming weeks.
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SubDAO
YGG will establish a subDAO to host a specific game’s assets and activities. Assets in the
subDAO are acquired, fully owned and only controlled by the YGG treasury through a
multisignature (multisig) hardware wallet for security reasons. Through smart contracts, the
community of players would be able to put assets to work.
A subDAO is tokenized, where a portion of the subDAO tokens will be offered to the community.
Community subDAO token holders are able to send proposals and vote concerning the specific
game mechanics. The intention is to incentivize the community to put the assets under treasury
management to play. This will allow community subDAO token holders to enjoy the potential
upside of the assets and yields generated from their productive game play
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.
There is no specific ownership breakdown offered to the community as of this writing. A
separate paper and report will be published when a subDAO is launched. It will contain details
of the distribution of the subDAO tokens and the economic value of the assets in the subDAO
wallet at fair value.
One of the current proposals to date is including a small allocation of YGG tokens (main DAO)
in selected subDAOs to align incentives between each subDAO and the main guild. After all, the
more successful the subDAOs are, the more successful YGG tokens will be.
A recent example is the issuance of YGGLOK tokens
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. YGG Treasury acquired League of
Kingdom parcels of land, which are held in a YGG wallet controlled through a multisig
arrangement organised by the DAO. This wallet will be tokenized into a subDAO where a
portion of these tokens will be offered to the community to align incentives by providing them
upside from their game play. All holders of the tokenized wallet or YGGLOK tokens can
participate in governance and access exposure to the YGGLOK yields from the activities it
engages in.
See ‘YGG as an Index’ section of the Whitepaper to understand how YGG tokens become an
index of all subDAO game play activities.
8 https://yieldguild.medium.com/why-yield-guild-games-invested-in-league-of-kingdoms-16e6fc0533ff
7 Players build on top of real estate assets generating more yield through activity and competitive game play
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Community Programs
The programs outlined will be further developed and mechanics agreed upon by the DAO.
Purpose Bucket Notes Tokens (#) (%) Period
New
Accounts
(Badge)
Acquisition
Airdrops
35,000,000 8% 2 year
Create guild Recruit Badge
Airdrops for early Recruit Badge holders
SubDAO rewards for subDAO participants
First
Actions Conversion Win for bonus rewards
Bonus rewards for game winners 10,000,000 2% 2 year
Level-Up Retention
Leveling-Up rewards
Reward at each of the 6 experience levels
130,000,000 29% 4 year
Onboarding rewards
Rewards when tasks are completed
Random and Seasonal Rewards
Raffle rewards subject to approval
Bonus for Esports participants
Rewards whenever esports team wins a game
Loyalty rewards
Play games and unlock rewards
Other Growth New game airdrops 65,000,000 14% 4 years
DAO Management Rewards for contribution of work 80,000,000 18% 4 years
Reserve Management Reserved for future programs 30,000,000 7% 1 year
Staking Staking Stake YGG Tokens to unlock rewards
Stake tokens in different vaults to earn rewards 100,000,000 22% 4 years
Total: 450,000,000 100% 4 years
Excess tokens that do not get distributed will be used for future programs until no more tokens
are left to be distributed. In the latter case, the treasury may buy back YGG tokens in the future.
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YGG Token
YGG Token Value
YGG token = A + B + C+ … +Z
A represents the Index’s value from token yield generated by utilizing the assets of each
subDAO as explained in the section below ‘YGG as a SubDAO Index’.
B represents the value of all NFT assets and its reward yields.
C represents the multiple from its growing user base.
The rest of the functions represent YGG’s activities from NFT asset rentals, merchandise,
esports and NFT breeding activities.
As the metaverse NFT economy grows, especially in gaming, it will have a multiplier effect on
the value of YGG. Aside from it being positively correlated with the metaverse economy, its
yields are from vetted projects and revenue generating activities from those projects.
A breakdown of YGG’s revenues and its activities are noted in the ‘Value Proposition’ section.
YGG as a SubDAO Index
A function of YGG token’s value is derived from the earnings or value of all its subDAO
ownership. A subDAO enables the community to put the assets of the game to play.
YGG Treasury will own an undefined % of each subDAO that contains a set of NFT assets. The
community owning the rest of the % of the subDAO will be composed of players to put the
assets to play.
The YGG token will reflect the % ownership of each of the tokenized subDAOs, making it a
subDAO index.
Where,
A = % Axie SubDAO (YGGAXS) + % Lok SubDAO (YGGLOK) + …+ % Zed SubDAO (YGGZED)
This means, A captures the weights of ownership of all subDAOs as a function of (1) value of
the assets in the wallet and (2) value of productivity gained from putting assets to play.
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YGG Vaults
Each vault at YGG will represent a token rewards program for specific activities or for all of
YGG’s activities. To be able to claim an annualized yield of rewards for a specific activity, YGG
token holders will have the option to stake in the vault they want rewards from. Token Stakers
will also have the option to stake into an all-in-one staking system that will reward a portion of
earnings from each vault proportionate to the amount of YGG staked.
As an example, there can be a vault specific for breeding Axies as an activity. Token Stakers will
receive the rewards from breeding activities proportional to their stake in the vault.
Another example would be specific for NFT rental activity.
By popular demand, there will also be a vault that will earn token rewards from all of YGGs
activities, making it a super index. This would include all revenue-generating activities such as
but not limited to subscription, merchandise, rentals, treasury growth and subDAO index
performance.
Each vault will have specific rules such that it can stipulate a lock-in period and/or a rewards
escrow or vesting period in some cases. More information will be provided in separate blogs at
official YGG channels.
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Technical Roadmap
The product development roadmap will be continually reviewed and refined over time, in
accordance with the wishes of the YGG DAO.
Note: Additional features or changes to products will be voted by the DAO through proposals. The roadmap specified
on this paper can change. More updates on our technical roadmap will be provided on our official website and blog.
In the short term, it is possible to allow users to farm or rent NFT assets. However, it will need to
remain under centralized authority as the current ERC-721 standard does not support such a
feature. YGG will set up a smart contract to issue ownership tokens or internally track ownership
and rented assets in a database. The latter is a cheaper option as no gas would be paid.
To make integration with NFTs smoother, YGG would need to push forward a new NFT standard
allowing for renting and sharing capacities. EIP-2615 was proposed in April 2020
(https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2615). We can inspire ourselves from this proposal to write
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a tailored standard for our needs. In the long term we hope to motivate projects in the NFT
scene to adopt our standard to enable renting/lending capacities.
YGG tokens will be distributed to users through rental of YGG-owned NFT assets and via active
guild involvement. For example, a user can farm SLP in Axie Infinity with Axies borrowed from
YGG. SLP resulting from gameplay would be distributed back to the DAO, with a precalculated
share of YGG tokens to be issued to the player for acting in alignment with the DAO’s goals.
YGG tokens will be used to interact with the governance and other features.
In the future, the provision of smart contract-based NFT lending and delegation will allow for the
economic activity inside virtual worlds to grow and develop. While YGG will work toward
achieving this in a trustless manner, in the short term, social coordination via the DAO will be
used to achieve YGG’s goals until it is possible to manage these activities from smart contracts.
After generating significant treasury growth and automating rentals through our scholarship
program, YGG will launch a rental marketplace to open up its scholarship program(s) to other
NFT holders. This will include other forms of non-collateralized lending for YGG members.
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Team
Core Team
Gabby Dizon
CEO / Co-founder
twitter.com/gabusch
Mobile gaming since 2004; blockchain since 2018. In 2014,
Gabby founded the Manila-based game studio, Altitude
Games, which released the blockchain game Battle Racers
in 2019. He is a recognised leader in NFT gaming, an active
member of Axie Infinity and Yearn Finance communities,
and a board member of the Blockchain Game Alliance.
Beryl Li
CFO / Co-founder
twitter.com/berylchavezli
Blockchain since 2014. Cambridge University Alumna and
President of Cryptocurrency Society 2016; FX Quants GCP
at BlackRock Asset Management; Entrepreneur In
Residence at Coins.ph (Acquired by GoJek); Co-founder at
CapchainX (Acquired by SMKG: OTC US); Consultant to
licensed financial institutions.
Owl of Moistness
CTO / Co-founder
twitter.com/OwlOfMoistness
Dev since 2016, blockchain since 2018. Built a breeding
algorithm for Axie Infinity and many bots on discord to
integrate the blockchain for NFTs. Wrote smart contracts to
integrate discord tipping, a token wrapper for deflationary
tokens, and farming strategies to the standard of yVaults.
Alexei Udall
aka Sarutobi
Head of Partnerships
twitter.com/Sarut0biSasuke
Blockchain since 2017. 5+ years experience in SaaS sales
and partnerships. Lifelong tech and gaming fanatic.
Passionate about leveraging nascent technologies to
promote the democratization of wealth creation and
financial inclusivity.
Brian M. Taylor
aka Zee
Operations Director
twitter.com/itsmezeezee
Blockchain enthusiast since 2014. Former U.S. Air Force
Information Technology Manager/Process Improvement
Manager. Competitive esports and TCGPlayer. Axie Infinity
community member since launch (2018). NFT maximalist.
Nolan Manalo
aka Nate
Head of Gaming Operations
twitter.com/Nate_YGG
Blockchain since 2016. Active member of Axie Infinity
community. Nate is not only a passionate community
member, Nate is the Head Coach of the YGG esports teams
across the YGG platforms as well as being a regular Top 10
finisher in tournaments.
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Advisors
Anil Lulla
Co-founder / COO of
Delphi Digital
twitter.com/anildelphi
Since founding Delphi Digital with two friends in 2018, Anil
has built Delphi’s reputation on high-end digital-asset
research and technical consultancy. Delphi oversaw
tokenomic design for YGG and Anil will provide guidance
and effective treasury management prior to decentralization.
Aleksander Larsen
aka Psycheout
Co-founder / COO of
Sky Mavis
twitter.com/psycheout86
COO of Sky Mavis, the games production company that
developed Axie Infinity. He has represented Norway in
Warcraft 3 and Dota, and has been ranked as one of the
Top 200 players in Europe in Dota 2. Psycheout will provide
valuable insight into the direction of NFT gaming and future
platform opportunities for YGG.
Eric Arsenault
Partner at Metacartel
Ventures
twitter.com/eric_rsno
Eric has been a leader in the DAO space since 2018. He is
a partner and investor at Metacartel Ventures and
ecosystem lead for Rarible DAO. Prior to that, he was at
DAOstack and has advised many of the leading DAO
projects. Eric will advise YGG on DAO structure and the
process of transitioning to decentralization.
Joe Mahon
aka Substreight
twitter.com/Substreight
Joe is a well respected community builder and active
investor in the DeFi and NFT space, having been involved
in various projects such as yearn.finance for a number of
years. Joe will work closely with the YGG team on matters
of governance, decentralization of the organization, and
scaling of the community.
Contributors
Emfarsis Consulting
https://emfarsis.com/
Emfarsis are a strategic communications company based in
Southeast Asia specialising in NFT gaming, blockchain for
social impact and blockchain regulatory communications.
Nathan Smale
Head of Marketing
twitter.com/nsmale
Nathan has worked with organizations across the globe to
refine their marketing message to suit their audience. His
blend of technical understanding layered over the top of
digital marketing experience ensures that the community is
related to in a genuine manner.
Leah Callon-Butler
Head of Communications
twitter.com/leah_cb
Leah is the Director of Emfarsis, overseeing all aspects of
communications and investor relations on behalf of YGG.
She is a renowned writer having been published on a
variety of leading publications, such as Coindesk, and is
known for her human interest pieces and the ability to
simplify complex crypto concepts for general audiences.
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Beep Crypto
A Chinese community driven social media consulting firm
focused on blockchain technology.
Mia Bao
China Community Lead
weibo.com/u/6128064102?s
sl_rnd=1609171663.7771
Mia Bao, Founder of Beep Crypto, funding partner of
WHALE, a blockchain influencer and educator, has built the
TOP 1 blockchain interview “8BTC Live” and blockchain
tech educational show “Mia Talks blockchain”. Meanwhile,
Mia has over 100,000 fans on social media.
Michael Arnold
aka Akzent
Front end Engineer
twitter.com/marnold_mch
Michael has built up experience in the metaverse as an
engineer My Crypto Heroes. Michael is an esports fanboy
and avid NFT investor.
Elle
aka HackingmoneyPh
Community Manager
twitter.com/hackingmoneyph
Elle is an active NFT and DeFi enthusiast and researcher in
the Philippines. She writes an NFT newsletter called Cup of
NFT. She has written blog posts accessible on
https://medium.com/hacking-money-ph
Kevin Tustin
aka Fallencorpsez
Community Manager
twitter.com/FallenCorpsez
Based in Canada, Kevin has been in the blockchain space
since 2017 actively promoting and supporting both gaming
and trading communities.
Lexus dela Cruz
aka Kookoo
Community Manager
twitter.com/kookoo_crypto
Kookoo has built his reputation as a leading content creator
and community builder around NFTs and play-to-earn
gaming in the Philippines.
loldefi
Designer
twitter.com/loldefi
Specialising in decentralized finance merchandise and
creative consulting, loldefi taps into the passion of DeFi
communities through physical items.
Sushinobi
NFT Designer
twitter.com/Sushinobi_nft
Hailing from the Philippines, Ed aka Sushinobi specialises
in producing comic book design, paintings, NFT and
tangible collectibles.
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Investors
Each investor of the YGG Seed and Series A rounds were carefully selected for their depth of
understanding of the future potential of play-to-earn gaming in the metaverse.
These investors, individually and as organisations, have a range of experience including
gaming, NFTs, DeFI network protocols and some of the most respected global venture firms.
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Glossary
Core Team
In charge of guild operations and other business-related ventures.
Creates, implements and manages key guild features for the
benefit of the guild. Proposes questions to DAO and also votes.
Dividends
A percentage of the funds gained by the treasury sent to YGG
Token Stakers and to the Core Team. The majority of dividends
sent to the core team are used to reinvest, build and to progress
the guild further.
DAO
A Decentralised Autonomous Organisation is a method of
governance where rules are encoded as a computer program that
is transparent, controlled through votes of a distributed group of
organization members rather than a single entity.
Functional Team
Consists of YGG community managers (regional and overarching)
and “game masters” to help bridge the gap between the game and
its players. Helps implement and manage key guild features.
Communicates with the core team.
Guild Member Badge
During sign up all guild members receive a guild member badge.
The guild member badge (which is also an NFT) is their wallet.
This wallet keeps track of all of guild tokens, achievements, levels,
and staking status.
Metaverse
The collective term for all the elements that make up virtual worlds,
including the ecosystem of people and objects that form
economies within those worlds.
NFT
Non fungible tokens are used to create verifiable digital scarcity, as
well as digital ownership, and the possibility of asset
interoperability across multiple platforms.
Play-to-earn
A term to describe games in which the players are able to
generate real-world rewards for their in-game activities. These
games are typically limited to NFT-based blockchain games as
they rely on the rewards being transferable on an open market.
SubDAO
A subDAO replicates the main governance functionality of main
DAO but has a narrow focus in its remit typically either focused on
one gaming title, or a specific endeavor, such as esports.
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TGE
Token Generation Event refers to the launch of the DAO network
when the governance tokens are released to participants.
Token Stakers
Anyone who actively stakes a set amount of YGG tokens. Holds a
voting percentage within the DAO. Actively participates in the
DAO, or delegates part or all of their vote.
Treasury
Holds all funds earned by the guild that the guild has earned
through its direct operations.
Level Up System
Players level up through quests within their respective game/class
to earn achievements, badges, rewards and prizes along the way.
As they achieve new levels, players are rewarded with YGG
tokens, or other prizes, such as YGG merchandise.
Yield Vault
Connects to the treasury. Consists of guild functions and
investments that provide dividends to the treasury, e.g. lending and
borrowing, yield farming tokens, staking tokens (AXS), NFT
purchases, and other assets.
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Legal Notices
The information set forth in the White Paper or these Legal Notices (“Legal Notices”) may not be
exhaustive and neither create a contract between you and YGG. While we make every reasonable effort
to ensure that all information: (i) in the White Paper; (ii) available on the Yield Guild Game website
https://yieldguild.io/, (iii) available on its Twitter account (@YieldGuild), (iv) its Discord Channel, or (v) any
other available information moderated by YGG (collectively, the “Sites”) (all the information in the White
Paper and all information available on the Sites hereinafter referred to as the “Current Information”) is
accurate and up to date, such material in no way constitutes professional advice. Individuals intending to
purchase the YGG token (each a “Token Purchase”) should seek independent professional advice prior to
acting on any of the Current Information.
NO REPRESENTATION & WARRANTIES
Notwithstanding any other provision of these Legal Notices or any statement made expressly or impliedly
in the Current Information, YGG does not make or purport to make, and hereby disclaims, any
representation warranty undertaking or covenant in any form whatsoever to any entity or person, including
any representation warranty undertaking or covenant in relation to the truth, accuracy and completeness
of any of the information set out in the Current Information.
REPRESENTATION & WARRANTIES BY YOU
By accessing the Current Information or engaging in a Token Purchase, you represent and warrant to
YGG:
● you are over 18 (eighteen) years of age;
● you agree, accept, and acknowledge that the Tokens do not constitute shares or equities or
securities or financial instruments or investments in any form in any jurisdiction for any purpose;
● you agree and acknowledge that the Current Information does not constitute a prospectus or offer
document of any sort and is not intended to constitute an offer of securities in any jurisdiction or a
solicitation for investment in securities;
● you agree and acknowledge that no regulatory authority has examined or approved of the Current
Information, and presently there is no plan for the Current Information to be so reviewed;
● the distribution or dissemination of the Current Information any part thereof or any copy thereof,
or acceptance of the same by you, is not prohibited or restricted by the applicable laws,
regulations or rules in your jurisdiction, and where any restrictions in relation to possession are
applicable, you have observed and complied with all such restrictions at your own expense and
without liability to YGG;
● you will not make any representation to any person regarding the Tokens that conflict with these
Legal Notices;
● you agree and acknowledge that in the case where you wish to purchase any Tokens, the Tokens
are not to be construed, interpreted, classified or treated as:
● debentures, stocks or shares issued by any person or entity (whether YGG or otherwise);
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● rights, options or derivatives in respect of such debentures, stocks or shares;
● rights under a contract for differences or under any other contract the purpose or
pretended purpose of which is to secure a profit or avoid a loss;
● units in a collective investment scheme;
● units in a business trust;
● derivatives of units in a business trust;
● any other security or class of securities; or
● any type of investment
● you are fully aware of and understand that you are not eligible to purchase any Tokens or access
the Current Information if you are a citizen, national, resident (tax or otherwise) of an
internationally sanctioned country.
● you have a basic degree of understanding of the operation, functionality, usage, storage,
transmission mechanisms and other material characteristics of cryptocurrencies,
blockchain-based software systems, cryptocurrency wallets or other related token storage
mechanisms, blockchain technology and smart contract technology;
● you are fully aware and understand, there are risks associated with: (A) YGG and its business
and operations; (B) the Tokens; (C) the Token Purchase; (D) storage of the Tokens, and (E)
relying or acting on all or any part of the Current Information;
● you agree and acknowledge that YGG is not liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental,
consequential, or other losses of any kind in tort contract or otherwise (including but not limited to
loss of revenue income or profits or loss of use or data or loss of reputation or loss of any
economic or other opportunity of whatsoever nature or howsoever arising) arising out of or in
connection with any acceptance of or reliance on the Current Information, Token Purchase, or
any part thereof by you; and
● all of the above representations and warranties are true, complete, accurate and not misleading
from the time of your last access to and/or possession of (as the case may be) the Current
Information.
CAUTIONARY NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
All statements contained in the Current Information, statements made in any press releases or in any
place accessible by the public and oral statements that may be made by YGG or YGG representatives
(as the case may be), that are not statements of historical fact, constitute “forward looking statements”.
Some of these statements can be identified by forward-looking terms such as “aim”, “target”, “anticipate”,
“believe”, “could”, “estimate”, “expect”, “if”, “intend”, “may”, “plan”, “possible”, “probable”, “project”,
“should”, “would”, “will” or other similar terms.
However, these terms are not the exclusive means of identifying forward-looking statements. All
statements regarding YGG’s financial position, business strategies, plans and prospects and the future
prospects of the industry which YGG is in are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements, including but not limited to statements as to YGG’s revenue profitability and growth, expected
revenue profitability and growth, prospects, future plans, network plans, other expected industry trends
and other matters discussed in the Current Information regarding YGG are matters that are not historic
facts, but only estimations and predictions.
YGG makes no representation or warranty on having made any predictions or estimates or expectations
on the basis of any formula, any mathematical or scientific modelling or forecast, or having made any due
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and proper enquiries or having undertaken any independent research or studies or otherwise. These
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause the actual future results, performance or achievements of YGG to be materially different from any
future results, performance or achievements expected, expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. These factors include, amongst others:
● changes in legal, political, social, economic, and stock or cryptocurrency market conditions and
the regulatory environment in the countries in which YGG conducts its business and/or its
operations or where you engage in a Token Purchase;
● the risk that YGG may be unable or execute or implement its business strategies and future
plans;
● changes in interest rates and exchange rates of fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies;
● changes in the anticipated growth strategies and expected internal growth of YGG;
● changes in the availability and fees payable to YGG in connection with its business and
operations;
● changes in the availability and salaries of employees who are required by YGG to operate its
business and operations;
● changes in preferences of customers of YGG;
● changes in competitive conditions under which YGG operates, and the ability of YGG to compete
under such conditions;
● changes in the future capital needs of YGG and the availability of financing and capital to fund
such needs;
● war or acts of international or domestic terrorism;
● occurrences of catastrophic events, natural disasters and acts of God that affect the businesses
and/or operations of YGG;
● other factors beyond the control of YGG; and
● any risk and uncertainties associated with YGG and its business and operations, the Tokens, the
Token Purchase and reliance on all or any part of the Current Information.
All forward-looking statements made by or attributable to YGG or YGG representatives are expressly
qualified in their entirety by such factors. Given that risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual
future results, performance or achievements of YGG to be materially different from that expected,
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in the Current Information, undue reliance must
not be placed on these statements.
These forward-looking statements are applicable only as of the later of the date of publication of the White
Paper and the latest date that the Sites have been updated. Neither YGG nor YGG representatives nor
any other person represents, warrants and/or undertakes that the actual future results, performance or
achievements of YGG will be as discussed in those forward-looking statements. The actual results,
performance or achievements of YGG may differ materially from those anticipated in these
forward-looking statements.
Nothing contained in the Current Information is or may be relied upon as a promise, representation or
undertaking as to the future performance or policies of YGG. Further, YGG disclaims any responsibility to
update any of those forward-looking statements or publicly announce any revisions to those
forward-looking statements to reflect future developments, events or circumstances, even if new
information becomes available or other events occur in the future
Play-to-earn is a new category in video gaming that rewards players for winning battles and completing tasks with tokens or other cryptocurrency-based rewards, which they are free to use in-game or trade on an open market. This represents an important shift in the gaming world, which has traditionally kept in-game assets confined to centralized platforms that did not allow transferring those assets externally.
An NFT is a unique, immutable, and verifiable representation of a physical or digital item on a blockchain. This technology allows important concepts of physical ownership, such as provenance and authentication, to be transferred digitally. In video games, NFTs also open up the potential for in-game assets to be interoperable with a range of different games and platforms.
In NFT games, in-game assets are wholly owned by the players—not the game’s developer. These gaming-based NFTs may include characters, plots of virtual land, weapons, and so on. They can be used inside blockchain games to earn yield in the form of tokens or other rewards, which can be used in-game or traded on an open market for other cryptocurrencies or fiat money.
