
With the crypto bull run heating up, crypto noobs and old-timers alike are scrambling to keep up with the constantly changing narratives every week. But Yield Guild Games co-founder and CEO Gabby Dizon isn’t buying into the whole “chasing narratives” strategy.
“I don’t believe in chasing narratives,” Dizon tells Hall of Flame at the YGG Play Summit in the Philippines.
YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon spoke to Cointelegraph at the YGG Play Summit in the Philippines. (Cointelegraph)
“Of course, there are narratives where you are a follower, like those late into memes. I participate in a small way to understand how people trading memecoins are thinking, but I don’t trade in any serious way,” he says.
Dizon is sticking to building and having the “conviction” that, sooner or later, the narrative will “turn its spotlight” back onto the Web3 gaming industry.
“When that happens, we just have to be ready,” he says.
Yield Guild Games is a decentralized autonomous organization formed in 2021 with a focus on coordinating players around the world to earn rewards in play-to-earn games.
Dizon, who comes from a gaming dev background in traditional gaming, jumped into blockchain gaming after “tinkering with Ethereum and smart contracts in 2017” and discovering NFTs in 2018.
Dizon wanted to be an early innovator in Web3 gaming because he felt like he missed the boat when he jumped into Web2 mobile free-to-play games in 2014.
“I started my game company in 2014, and the market was already kind of midway. It was already starting to mature, and I felt that I was late, that I should have been earlier,” Dizon says.
What led Gabby Dizon to X fame?
Dizon has had his X account for nearly 15 years, but he admits his follower count stayed pretty modest during the first decade when he was still in the Web2 traditional gaming industry.
“From around 2008 to 2018, I amassed a total…
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