Let me share something real with you guys. Back in the day, after work I’d just slump on the couch and play games. My wife would give me that look—you know the one—might as well have “irresponsible” written across her face. Honestly, I had my doubts too: after sinking so much time into this, what do I have left besides a fleeting thrill?

Then things changed, pretty suddenly. After I got into YGG, the whole game shifted. Now when I explain it to my family, I call it “digital gig work”—a side hustle in the virtual world. They only half get it, but once they saw I could actually pull in some real cash from gaming to help with household expenses, their attitude softened right away.

Put it this way—gaming used to just burn time, now I’m treating my time as an asset to manage.

At first, I was just your average gold farmer, scraping by on scholarships. But gradually, I realized the YGG ecosystem is no joke—it always gives you chances to discover value beyond just gaming skills. For example, I love strategy games and digging into data. Once, everyone in Discord was arguing about the economy of a new game, speculating whether it would crash. I had some time, so I pulled all the in-game resource production, consumption, and market trading data, made a supply and demand analysis chart, and dropped it in the group.

The result? A few SubDAO leaders and the game developers reached out to me directly.

I was stunned—turns out my little hobby is real currency in this space. Later, new projects started launching through the Launchpad,