YGG Play Summit: Building Onchain Guild Infrastructure on Base
Gabby Dizon spoke with Emfarsis Director Leah Callon-Butler at the YGG Play Summit about Onchain Guilds, the guild protocol’s newest offering designed to unlock onchain collaboration at scale.
The YGG Play Summit gathered leaders across web3, giving them a platform to share their insights and make high-impact announcements regarding their future projects. During the Summit’s Industry Day on November 20, YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon joined Emfarsis Director Leah Callon-Butler for a fireside chat on the topic “A Decentralized World of Onchain Guilds and Reputation” to discuss Onchain Guilds, a platform developed by YGG to make guild participation more rewarding and more efficient.
During the panel, YGG announced that Onchain Guilds would launch on Base. Base creator Jesse Pollak also joined Gabby and Leah on stage to explain how YGG's vision for Onchain Guilds aligns with Base’s goal to deliver an open network to onboard a billion users to web3, especially from emerging economies.
In the excerpt below, Gabby and Leah discuss how the launch of Onchain Guilds is a big component of YGG’s transition to a Guild Protocol. Gabby shared information on what the first 30 guilds to create Onchain Guilds can expect during Season 8 of the Guild Advancement Program (GAP) as well as the support available to those Onchain Guilds going forward.
You can listen to the full recording on YouTube.
YGG Play Summit: A Decentralized World of Onchain Guilds and Reputation
Gabby (58:56): This week, we announced the beta of Onchain Guilds, so now we have around 30 guilds trying out group quests. This is different from normal questing in that the guild enrolls for the quests, and then the guild members do the quests, and at the end, the payout goes to the guild wallet rather than the individuals.
I think this strengthens multiplayer web3 actions in a very meaningful way rather than just doing things individually. If you’re able to pay out to a group, then it means that I have more incentive to grow the group and the skills within that group so they can get jobs and assets that can grow the group. That’s why I think guilds are the SMEs of web3. Doing group quests and going to Onchain Guilds means we can grow and scale guilds further.
Leah (57:20): The SME thing is a good analogy. I’m sure people in the Philippines love the idea of being an SME onchain, so you don’t have to deal with middlemen.
You did touch on this before, but I think this is one of the most interesting things about Onchain Guilds: it goes way beyond gaming. Who can create an Onchain Guild, what are some examples, and what kind of communities do you expect to find these people in?
Gabby (57:50): I’ll start with the nearest use case because of where we are as YGG. I expect the guilds that are already active within our community to create gaming guilds. Within that, there will be a lot of subspecializations.
We have seen a lot of guilds within their geographic areas. For example, we’ve seen guilds in Cabanatuan, Manila, Nigeria, and Indonesia. Some might slice by interest, “Oh, I’m an FPS guild, I’m a TCG guild.” Or there might be a few people who form content creator guilds. I expect some guilds will be a mix of both and will have esports athletes, players, and content creators together.
What’s interesting is that when you gather people into groups, it allows them to specialize. They’re not just doing one thing; they’re doing many things that make the group better than the sum of its parts.
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