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The current price of Yield Guild Games is $0.02495 with a 4.39% change in the last 24 hours.
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Yield Guild Games is an organization that began as a play-to-earn gaming guild and has since repositioned itself around coordinating large groups of people to do paid digital work, with a current emphasis on human-generated data and evaluation tasks for AI companies. YGG is the ERC-20 governance and coordination token attached to that organization.
Readers arriving from older write-ups should note that YGG is no longer the scholarship guild those describe. The lending model wound down years ago, the publishing arm closed in 2026, and YGG now presents itself as a coordination layer between a large distributed community and businesses that want to hire it.
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The idea traces to 2018, when Filipino games industry veteran Gabby Dizon began lending his Axie Infinity NFTs to players who could not afford the entry cost. He was later joined by Beryl Li and a pseudonymous engineer known as Owl of Moistness, and Yield Guild Games was formally established in 2020.
The original structure was a decentralized autonomous organization that bought in-game NFTs with treasury capital and lent them to players, called scholars, for a share of what they earned. Activity was organized into SubDAOs, some tied to specific games and others to regions such as Southeast Asia, Japan, Latin America and India. That model peaked with the 2021 play-to-earn cycle and did not survive the collapse in in-game token economics that followed. YGG has since reinvented itself twice: a Guild Protocol phase built around onchain guilds and verifiable reputation, and a 2026 pivot to AI data and task work.
YGG today is best understood as three layers stacked on top of each other.
A community layer YGG's durable asset has always been a large, organized, mostly Southeast Asian community that can be mobilized to complete structured tasks. Everything else is built to route work and payment to that community.
A coordination layer The Guild Protocol makes guilds a reusable onchain primitive: it defines a guild, the assets it holds and the record of what members have done, using non-transferable credential tokens so participation history stays attached to an identity. Modules cover work management, multisig treasuries and credential issuance.
A demand layer Programs such as GIG Rewards and the AI Alerts task board connect that community to paying customers. Advertised work spans data collection and annotation, reinforcement learning from human feedback, red-teaming, output verification, quality assurance and content review. GIG Rewards launched through a partnership with a Philippine telecommunications operator to handle distribution and payout at scale.
YGG is an ERC-20 token with a total supply of 1,000,000,000. Its canonical contract is on Ethereum, with bridged representations on Polygon, BNB Chain, Base, Ronin, Abstract and Harmony.
Stated and observed uses include:
Two caveats belong here. YGG has never been a fee token for a protocol that charges usage fees, so value accrual depends on discretionary treasury policy rather than mechanical revenue capture. And the token's stated utility has been rewritten several times as the business changed, so the current framing is newer than most third-party documentation.
Compared with game token projects such as Axie Infinity or The Sandbox, YGG never owned a game economy; it organized players inside other people's economies. Compared with data networks, YGG is not building a novel collection protocol so much as pointing an existing labor network at demand that already exists. That leaves it competing on operations and community trust rather than technology, which is only a strong position if the community proves durable.
YGG is an ERC-20 token, so custody security is standard Ethereum smart contract and wallet security. Beyond that the relevant risk surfaces are organizational: multisig treasury controls, the integrity of the Guild Protocol credential and quest contracts, and the operational security of the offchain systems that verify task completion and route payments. Bridged YGG on other networks carries the assumptions of whichever bridge issued it, a weaker guarantee than the Ethereum contract.
YGG is a useful case study in whether a crypto-native organization can outlive the narrative it was born into. It built genuine distribution in markets most crypto projects never reach, and has been unusually direct about closing businesses that did not work; its co-founder stated during the 2026 restructuring that the organization and the token would continue even as the publishing arm was retired. Whether the AI data direction becomes a real business is still unproven.
YGG is listed on a range of centralized exchanges and trades on decentralized venues on Ethereum and Base. Availability, pairs and regional access vary by venue and jurisdiction. Confirm the contract address before using a decentralized exchange, since bridged and unofficial representations of the same ticker exist.
YGG is commonly available on:
Common pairs include YGG/USDT and YGG/USD where supported.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Yield Guild Games is $0.02495 with a 4.39% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $231,575 representing a 1.93% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Yield Guild Games is $22,443,779, ranking #500 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Yield Guild Games is $24,948,857, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 YGG is in circulation.
Circulating: 899,591,442. Total: 1,000,000,000. Max: 1,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Yield Guild Games traded between a low of $0.02348 and a high of $0.02517.
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