@Yield Guild Games A Nation Without Borders: The Rise of Yield Guild Games' Digital Commonwealth
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Section II: The Digital Commonwealth With No Borders In the First Digital Nation Builder
To understand YGG as a nation, one must first grasp its origins and core mechanics. In the Philippines in 2020, Gabby Dizon, Beryl Li, and Owl of Moistness, founded YGG in response to the economic potential and high barriers to entry of blockchain-based games, especially Axie Infinity.In ones where users “play-to-earn” (P2E), gamers possess things like characters, land, and weapons, and these become non-fungible tokens (NFTs), stored on a digital ledger called a blockchain. These can also be used for the accumulation of cryptocurrencies. In this case, the cryptocurrency also holds real value. What’s more, the money to be made for acquiring a set of characters is worth hundreds, leaving a stream of potential income unreachable for many, especially for those that live in poor countries. YGG’s foundational act is also one of incusion and representation. They became a “scholarship” guild, and a digital- cooperative. The guild aggregates money to buy assets and NFTs of high-value gaming. Then, the guild loans the assets to “scholar” players who are geographically dispersed and more often than not, cannot afford to buy the assets themselves. They then form a partnership in which the scholar retains the majority of the income (over 70%), while the rest is divided between the guild and the asset manager. This clever, uncomplicated framework combines the potential of a digitally dispersed workforce with a capital solution. The characteristics of a nation begin to form from this economic engine. In defining a nation, we often think of the unique characteristics of culture, language, and history, as one, in a single geographic space.A state is defined by what governs it. YGG's Digital Commonwealth is the opposite. It has a non-contiguous, virtual territory made up of the different worlds and games it operates; ranging from the Axie Infinity jungles to Star Atlas's sci-fi land. Instead of borders being defined by lines on a map, they're defined by access points in a digital wallet. The UN may not recognize it, but its borders are secured by the immutable code of the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains.

Of the five pillars of YGG's Digital Commonwealth, the economy is the most developed. It has its own on-chain treasury which is diversified and managed by YGG, based on funds from scholar earnings, appreciation of in-game assets, and funds from YGG's own token. The treasury acts like a national fund, enriching the guild's virtual assets and land to secure its prosperity. The $YGG token is the most important to the digital commonwealth as it allows people to gain and exercise governance, and vote on treasury spending, partnerships with games, and the guild's overall direction.

Citizens hold the nation’s token and the nation’s prosperity and stability benefits. They fund the nation’s economic growth and the virtuous cycle of engagement the nation’s resources are self perpetuating. It’s growth sustains a high level of engagement. Efficient high tax systems do not provide the level of economic growth and engagement.

Civically, YGG has built a nation unlike other communities, a nation with a strong and lasting culture. Citizens speak the same language, “GM,” and “WAGMI.” They have a culture centered around the promise of the Web3, and digital battle coordination with economic collaboration.

Their public squares are online forums, discord, and twitter spaces. Citizens of the nation users organise celebrations of economic success, and provide support to one another. It is not a shallow, transactional relationship; it is a deep sense of belonging to a global tribe.YGG has set up local chapters called “sub-DAOs” in places like the Philippines, Brazil, and India which help with coordinating events and onboarding new scholars from the local areas in their native languages. These sub DAOs also help in adapting the global guild’s mission to serve their community better. These mini DAOs serve as the provinces/states level in the Digital Commonwealth and show how YGG has built a decentralized, sophisticated structure to govern a diffused global population.

Citizenship under this commonwealth does not have to be static. It can be fluid and is based on a meritocratic system where memberships can be tiered. Residents who are scholars have to provide some amount of work for the community, while token holders who can vote have a stake in the governance system. The civil service is composed of guild leaders and community managers. Participation in the system, be it financial or labor, is required in order to earn membership. This is a refreshing counter to the often blunt system of citizenship dictated by place of birth. It creates a global system where someone’s value is directly tied to their contribution to the community. For many people within developing countries, getting awarded a YGG scholarship was more than just an opportunity to play a game. It was a digital escape from financially unstable situations into a new world with a global digital economy.

 

YGG Scholarships enabled participants to become YGG's first gaming scholars and primary holders. YGG Scholarships enabled participants to become their family's primary income earners during COVID and properly demonstrate the tangible impact of the Philippines as a fully digital nation.

No digital nation, YGG commonwealth included, is without concerns and paradoxes. Old world order's YGG commonwealth is constantly in a state of Corridor Relations. In the world, nation-states largely retains their powers, especially over the physical bodies of their citizens. They control crypto, tax digital income, and manage the banking on-ramps and off-ramps that connect the digital economy to the fiat world. A major economy, especially the US or China, regulating crypto can cause a depression in the commonwealth. This demonstrates that the commonwealth's independence is largely conditional.

Corridor Relations also highlights the guild's internal struggles of Sustainability and Inequity. The first P2E model, which critics likened to a ponzi scheme, relied on the constant influx of new players to sustain asset demand. The model is now maturing into a more sustainable version called “play-and-earn” which focuses on having fun and building sustainable economies around a game. This transition is a test for the Economic model of YGG.

While there may be ideal values at play, wealth and power disproportionally lie with early investors and large holders of tokens, reproducing the same inequity the Web3 ecosystem claims to want to eliminate. How to govern a completely global, anonymous, and heterogeneous group of people is a difficult question. Within this community, there are disputes and disagreements between academics and administrators, and over how to allocate the funds in the treasury, all of which are issues of political conflict in this new community that could be likened to a nation, and are resolved through Snapshot votes and Discord threads rather than parliamentary debates.

Yet the development of the Digital Commonwealth of Yield Guild Games is a paradigm shift, a moment of great historical significance. It is a model of a new kind of social contract, fully functioning and operational, and is based not on the monopoly of violence and territorial control but on a mutual voluntary agreement, transparent blockchain technology, and compatible economic incentives. Digital Commonwealth is one of the first examples of an entity that is both social and economically powerful, a "network state" in the form of a cloud community, which started with people gathering online and has turned into an organization of economic significance.

Applying this model in a broader context could be a game changer, particularly in areas outside of gaming. What YGG has achieved through asset-sharing cooperatives, on-chain governance, and mobilizing global labor is applicable to a multitude of new online industries.Freelance software developers could join ‘Code Guilds,’ digital artists could join ‘Design Guilds,’ and AI trainers could join ‘Data Guilds,’ all functioning as digital commonwealths that cross borders and share and redistribute wealth. Unlike Upwork and Fiverr, these guilds would not be simply freelance outsourcing platforms. They would be economies with self-contained governance and ownership; labor digital nation-states.

To summarize, Yield Guild Games is not simply a financial instrument and not just a gaming community. It is built at the frontline of a profound restructuring of human cooperation. With a shared purpose, it has constructed the first nation (without borders) through community. It is integrated as one community with a unified culture across the world and a locally responsive culture. It is a cryptocurrency nation and its land is the blockchain. Community members freely choose to participate as citizens. In proving its existence, the entity demonstrates that the world of the 20th century no longer meets the needs of the 21st. It is a world built on blockchain, and cryptocurrency economies. It is true that Yield Guild Games is not ‘just a gaming community,’ as speculative crypto financialization has diminishing returns, yet it is pioneering with doubtful certitude to weather the storm of regulators.

Even thought the Digital Commonwealth does not have its own embassy or representation in the UN, it does have its own treasury, people, government, as well as a future sense of allegiance. This is a nation built not on attested diplomacy and military action, but on lines of programming, peer economic relations, and the fundamental human needs of of society and prospects. Within the quiet and unrelenting hum of its servers, and the every day gm messages from its citizens, we are witnessing the unrelenting rise of a new and unrecognizable form of power, each moment mirroring the construction of a new world in real time, one transaction after the other.

 

 

 

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