{
  "url": "https://blockindex.ai/coin/ygg",
  "name": "Yield Guild Games",
  "links": {
    "github": null,
    "website": "https://yieldguild.io/",
    "whitepaper": null
  },
  "dScore": 31,
  "market": {
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    "marketCapUsd": 19574751.17761571,
    "volume24hUsd": 5821468.57217237,
    "priceChange7dPct": 2.63634724,
    "priceChange24hPct": 0.15769324
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  "source": "BlockIndex.AI",
  "supply": {
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    "circulating": 761246235.272387,
    "circulatingPct": 76.1246235272387
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  "ticker": "YGG",
  "founder": "Gabby Dizon, Beryl Li",
  "vcFunded": true,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T06:00:22.584035+00:00",
  "fairLaunch": false,
  "launchYear": 2021,
  "description": "Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a pioneering community-directed gaming guild and token-based ecosystem that seeks to coordinate player onboarding, asset funding, and reputation-building across a wide range of play-to-earn blockchain games. Founded by a small team including co-founders Gabby Dizon and Beryl Li and originating in the Philippines, YGG evolved into a globally distributed guild with regional chapters and partnership programs. The project’s on-chain token functions as both a utility and governance instrument, enabling treasury allocations for player acquisition, guild advancement programs (GAP), and incentive mechanics such as Superquests. Over time YGG has positioned itself as a major aggregator of game-facing community capital, acquiring and managing player-owned assets and coordinating guild incentives that bridge on-chain ownership with off-chain community operations.\n\nTechnically, YGG is issued as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum mainnet; it does not operate its own underlying blockchain. That design choice places YGG squarely within Ethereum’s ecosystem and leverages EVM-compatible tooling, wallet integrations, and exchange infrastructure. The tokenomics are characterized by a fixed maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 YGG and a multi-part allocation that privileges community distributions alongside investor, founder, treasury, and advisor allocations. Because YGG is a token rather than an independent protocol, metrics such as TPS, block timing, and node distribution are inherited from or irrelevant to the underlying chain in most analyses. Development and integration work centers on tooling for guild operations, on-chain governance primitives, and partnerships that enable in-game utility for token holders and guild members.\n\nYGG’s principal use cases center on guild coordination, player monetization, and community-driven game economies. The guild funds player-owned assets, supports onboarding and education programs, and subsidizes early play-to-earn engagement to grow network effects across partner titles. Practical implementations include regional guild chapters that manage local recruitment, Superquests which provide structured incentivized activities, and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP) for leveling and reputation systems. Partnerships with 80+ blockchain games and infrastructure projects have been emphasized in public materials, demonstrating a business model focused on scaling through curation, funding, and operational support rather than technical protocol-layer innovation.\n\nTokenomics and governance are core to the YGG value proposition. The token allocation includes a substantial community share (reported near 45%) alongside investor (reported 24.9%), founder (reported 15%), treasury and advisor allocations. This allocation mix has inspired varying interpretations of pre-issued/public allocation (PIP), and one internal extraction sums those non-community allocations to a PIP figure of approximately 54.95%. Governance has been articulated as a roadmap objective with DAO implementation phases noted in project sources; the operating model therefore blends on-chain voting ambitions with off-chain guild coordination, resulting in a hybrid governance posture. Despite active ecosystem initiatives and frequent product launches in 2024–2025 (YGG Play, Playpad and related launches), the publicly provided materials in the supplied dataset do not fully document executive titles, a definitive legal entity filing, or a comprehensive dated roadmap, leaving several operational governance questions open.\n\nFrom a risk and outlook perspective, YGG demonstrates both strengths and vulnerabilities. Its large partnership footprint and guild-first growth strategy create differentiated network effects in web3 gaming, while the fixed supply and sizable community allocation give clear levers for long-term incentive alignment. At the same time, token price volatility (an ATH of $10.98 on 2021-11-20 and a low point recorded in the provided snapshot on 2025-12-18) and concentration of non-community allocations create governance and market-risk considerations. The project’s strategic direction emphasizes continued ecosystem expansion, tooling for guild operations, and progressive decentralization through DAO mechanics; however, gaps in formal legal disclosures and incomplete public documentation of key governance mechanics warrant caution for stakeholders evaluating long-term protocol stewardship or investment exposure.",
  "methodology": "https://blockindex.ai/dscore",
  "classification": {
    "layer": "Layer 1",
    "isToken": true,
    "consensus": "PoS",
    "parentChain": "ETH"
  },
  "dScoreComponents": {
    "autonomy": 5,
    "ageHistory": 11,
    "governance": 15,
    "nodeDistribution": 0,
    "initialDistribution": 0
  },
  "decentralizationVerdict": "Centralized Leaning"
}