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A New Era for Web3’s Casual Degen Genre
YGG Play, the publishing arm of Yield Guild Games, has today announced Gigaverse as its first third-party game partner-a milestone marking the maturing of Web3's most nimble and fast-growing gaming category: the Casual Degen genre.
This collaboration arrives shortly after the successful launch of LOL Land, YGG Play’s flagship casual degen title. Together, Gigaverse and YGG Play have already activated a cross-game event: a Gigaverse-themed board appearing inside LOL Land, and LOL Land-inspired skins debuting within Gigaverse. It’s a two-way creative exchange that hints at how YGG Play intends to build a connected Web3 gaming ecosystem rather than isolated hits.
With the early momentum, strong revenue performance, and tight-knit community at Gigaverse, YGG Play positions itself as the publishing home for streamable, social-first, highly viral Web3 gaming experiences.
Gigaverse: The Nostalgic Onchain RPG That Web3 Can't Stop Talking About
Launched on February 12, 2024, Gigaverse is a nostalgic, pixel-infused onchain RPG that taps into classic gaming energy while integrating unmistakably Web3-native design. Built on Abstract and backed by developer GLHF, the game has soared in popularity thanks to its community-first approach.
Gigaverse’s origins trace back to co-founder Dith, whose early rise came from a viral 2022 NFT mint that topped OpenSea’s charts. His later work at Proof of Play and fully onchain title Pirate Nation sharpened his conviction that Web3 needed a game built not from hype, but from genuine love of gaming culture.
To fund the project, Dith released the GLHFers Genesis NFT collection, which became a breakout success — generating over 1,300 ETH in trading volume and assembling a loyal community long before the team revealed that a full RPG was in development.
Then, in February 2025, GLHF released the Gigaverse ROM NFT collection to commemorate the game’s official launch. It sold out in just 10 minutes, generating more than US$1 million in volume and offering immediate game access plus exclusive bonuses.
Today, Gigaverse stands as one of Web3's hottest titles, producing over US$6 million in annualized revenue within the first three months - without investors, paid marketing, and KOL campaigns.
“Gigaverse is already a great game with fun mechanics and great revenue. Partnering with YGG Play means we can reach an even bigger player base and benefit from YGG’s experience and scale,” said founder Dith.
He also said it represented an excellent fit, given YGG's unique cultural fluency, market expertise, and operational speed.
Why YGG Play Chose Gigaverse
YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon described Gigaverse as the ideal representation of YGG Play’s mission:
"Gigaverse is a perfect fit for YGG Play. Anybody can dive in and start playing. These games are examples of how Web3 gaming is catering not just to gamers but to Web3 natives and Casual Degens."
YGG Play has spent the past year carving out the Casual Degen genre — fun, fast, streamable games built around simple loops and high replayability. LOL Land proved that the model works. Gigaverse now accelerates it.
Where many Web3 game teams rely on heavy funding, paid marketing, and influencer amplification, Gigaverse operates in the opposite direction:
Fully self-funded
zero marketing spend
No KOL campaigns
a thriving internal creator program
Community-first content instead of external hype
This unorthodox, organic approach is precisely what makes Gigaverse such a strong match for YGG Play's publishing philosophy.
Redefining the Publisher-Developer Relationship in Web3
Beyond gameplay itself, the partnership reveals a new model for how Web3 games can work with publishers.
Traditionally, game developers have little visibility into real-time earnings. Publishers handle distribution, take a cut of revenue, and send periodic payouts-a black box that relies on trust and delayed reporting.
YGG Play flips that paradigm.
Onchain, Smart Contract-Enforced Revenue Sharing
The publishing framework for YGG Play allows every dollar — or token — generated by a game to be:
recorded onchain
split programmatically
audited in real time
distributed automatically
This creates:
instant transparency
trustless revenue flows
equal text alignment between publishers and developers
In other words, YGG Play is redefining what fair publishing looks like in Web3: verifiable, enforceable, and transparent at every stage.
The result is a more balanced ecosystem where developers keep autonomy, publishers provide scale, and both sides benefit from shared success.
A New Chapter: Web3 Gaming
With Gigaverse as its first third-party partner, YGG Play is not simply expanding its game portfolio — it is establishing a blueprint for the next evolution of Web3 gaming:
cross-game IP activations
Streamable, social-first experiences
community-driven discovery
transparent, onchain publishing economics
It creates a sustainable Casual Degen genre. Gigaverse brings creativity, cultural resonance, and player loyalty. YGG Play brings the distribution power, community reach, and publishing infrastructure. Together, they make up what the next generation of Web3 gaming looks like. $YGG

| #YGGPlay | @Yield Guild Games

The Real Risk Lies Elsewhere
As the Bank of Japan (BOJ) moves closer to a long-anticipated rate hike next week, financial markets are buzzing with speculation. One particular fear is echoing loudly across crypto circles:
“A stronger yen will trigger a massive unwind of global carry trades — and bitcoin will get crushed.”
It's a seductive story, it's dramatic, and-most crucially-it is wrong.
A closer look at positioning data, bond market dynamics, and historical responses reveals a more grounded truth: the yen is not the ticking time bomb. Global yields are. And that matters far more to bitcoin than the popular carry-trade doomsday scenario.
The BOJ Hike Is Already Priced In
Japan’s potential rate increase is not a shock event. Markets have been preparing for this moment for months.
Japanese Government Bond yields are already hovering near multi-decade highs.
Interest rate futures are implying a broad market consensus of BOJ tightening.
Volatility in the rates market has been muted, not explosive — a sign that traders are not treating the hike as an unexpected pivot.
When an event is priced in, markets don’t violently react unless the decision differs from expectations.
The BOJ would need to hike harder or sound drastically more hawkish for the yen to meaningfully surge.
As yet, there is little evidence that this would happen.
Speculators Are Net Bullish on JPY — Limiting Room for a Violent Rally
A true carry trade unwind typically stems from a scenario where traders are heavily short the yen, then panic-cover positions once the currency strengthens.
But current CFTC positioning tells a very different story:
Hedge funds and macro speculators are net long yen, not short.
Bullish JPY bets have steadily climbed throughout the year.
Weak hands have already been flushed out after BOJ commentary in previous months.
If the market is already positioned for yen strength, then
There is no powder keg of short positions out there ready to explode.
This removes the fuel needed for a sudden yen spike or a disorderly carry trade unwind.
Real Risk: BOJ Moves Could Lift Global Bond Yields
While most eyes are on the foreign exchange story, the quieter — and far more important — risk sits in the bond market.
Japan’s yields matter globally because Japanese investors hold trillions in overseas bonds.
What happens when domestic yields increase?
1. Japanese investors may repatriate capital.
When home yields become more attractive, domestic asset managers reduce their need to hunt for returns abroad.
2. This adds to selling pressure in U.S. Treasuries and European sovereign bonds.
The mechanical effect:
Global yields are higher.
3. Higher global yields tighten financial conditions — suppressing risk appetite.
Crypto is incredibly yield-sensitive. Bitcoin has historically corrected when global real yields rise.
If BOJ tightening nudges global rates upward, bitcoin's headwinds look more like:
Decreasing liquidity
Greater leverage is expensive
Preference for safe assets over speculative ones is greater.
and far less like a yen-driven shock.
Why Bitcoin Is Not a Sitting Duck
Against the macro tension, however, bitcoin is not helpless.
Bitcoin does well in a structurally rising inflation expectation.
If global yields rise because central banks struggle to control inflation, BTC’s “digital gold” narrative strengthens.
The asset has matured.
Institutional flows, futures market depth, and ETF participation have reduced the sensitivity of bitcoin to single-country FX volatility.
The crypto markets increasingly react to liquidity cycles, not currency cycles.
Bitcoin is essentially concerned with liquidity and dollar availability rather than isolated yen strength.
That is, even if the yen did appreciate modestly, its influence on BTC would likely be minimal and short-lived.
The Real Headline: Global Yields, Not Yen Volatility
Anecdotal evidence suggests the BOJ's tightening cycle might be one of the most consequential macro forces in coming months-but for reasons other than currency.
The yen is not ready for a chaotic lift-off.
Carrying traders does not dangerously expose.
Speculators are not caught on the wrong side of the trade.
The real story is much more subtle:
As Japanese yields continue higher, they quietly put upward pressure on global yields-a slow tightening that chips away at risk-asset momentum, including bitcoin.
This is not a shock that has come about overnight.
It is a grinding macro tide-and tides move markets more reliably than headlines.
Conclusion: The Real Macro Signal
BOJ may hike next week, but the yen is not the villain.
Instead, the world should be watching:
Global yield curves Capital flows from Japanese pension funds Real rates in the U.S. and Europe USD liquidity conditions These are the variables that really make bitcoin's medium-term trajectory. In short, The yen is unlikely to crash bitcoin. Rising global yields just might. #BTC #Write2Earn $BTC

Whenever I bring up Lorenzo Protocol, I find myself pausing. The vocabulary of legacy finance simply doesn’t work here. You can’t describe Lorenzo using the language of banks, mutual funds, or traditional DeFi platforms. You have to let go of the old mental models.
Lorenzo is not a vault. Not a fund. Not a wrapper.
It is the beginning of a world where investment logic itself becomes an asset, where strategies are liquid, portable, programmable — and enjoyable.
Every time I revisit its architecture, it feels like learning it again. It evolves not like a financial product but like software. This is precisely what makes it exciting.
Funds Have Become Borderless Software
To understand Lorenzo, the first thing you must abandon is the classic idea of an investment fund. Old-world funds are burdened by geography, paperwork, intermediaries, and high entry barriers.
Lorenzo replaces them with OTFs — On-Chain Traded Funds, self-contained machines of strategy.
Think of ETFs, but alive.
Automated
Composable.
Available globally.
An OTF is not a financial wrapper; it is a piece of software running autonomously, managing a portfolio in real time. It upgrades like code. It functions like an institutional model. And any user on the internet can access it without the bureaucracy of legacy systems.
This is not replication.
This is reinvention.
Tokenization Strategy Itself
The core breakthrough behind Lorenzo is simple yet radical:
A strategy can be tokenized.
Not the assets.
Not the yield.
The strategy itself.
In traditional finance, strategy is a guarded secret — trapped in closed-door quant desks, hedge fund back offices, proprietary codebases. Lorenzo flips this entirely:
Strategies become visible
Strategies become ownable
Strategies become tradable
You do not invest in a fund.
You hold the strategy as a token.
It can move between chains, plug into other vaults, be combined, borrowed, lent, staked — strategic intelligence becomes a digital commodity.
This is a new economic layer.
Financial logic turned into liquid capital.
Simple Vaults and Composed Vaults — A Clean Architecture
One of the most elegant vault systems in DeFi is Lorenzo's.
Simple Vaults
Minimalist. Modular.
Each contains one strategy, in isolation and self-contained.
This purity of design means:
Zero dependencies
Maximum safety
Transparent logic
Easy auditing
Composed Vaults
These take the proven building blocks of Simple Vaults and blend them into diversified, multi-factor institutional-grade portfolios.
The brilliance lies in the fact that it never gets cumbersome.
Complexity is built from simplicity.
Lorenzo's architecture scales horizontally, not vertically-just like modern software.
Quant Strategies for All
For decades, quantitative strategies belonged to hedge funds with massive infrastructure.
Lorenzo democratizes that world.
Trend-following, volatility harvesting, multi-factor modeling — these things once needed millions in equipment and quant teams. Now, they’re tokens.
Buy the token, and you're inside the machine.
Quant is not a dark art anymore.
It's a public utility.
Managed Futures in a Market That Never Sleeps
Traditional managed futures operate in markets that have trading sessions, opening bells, holidays, and downtime.
Crypto never sleeps.
Lorenzo’s trend-following engines operate in a continuous, unbroken flow of data — a market in perpetual motion. This gives blockchain-native strategies a unique advantage:
No overnight gaps
Realtime reactions
Constant rebalancing
Pure signal environments
Trend-following becomes sharper, more adaptive, more dynamic.
Something that legacy finance cannot match.
Volatility as a Renewable Resource
Legacy finance considers volatility as risk, pure and simple.
Lorenzo treats it as energy.
Crypto markets oscillate, spike, retrace, and rotate faster than traditional markets. Lorenzo sees these patterns not as hazards but as cycles — renewable and harvestable economic flows.
Volatility becomes input.
Strategies become engines.
Output equals profit.
This is the native advantage in DeFi.
Structured Yield Without the Institutional Gatekeepers
In traditional finance, structured products are contingent upon
Wealth managers
Relationship officers
Physical forms
High capital requirements
Lorenzo simplifies this whole mechanism to a set of clear smart contracts.
Structured yield becomes:
Permissionless
Automated
Borderless
Programmable
The result of what happens when privilege becomes software.
$BANK — More than Governance
The $$BANK oken is misunderstood when framed as a governance coin.
It is not a passive political tool — it is a power distribution engine.
$Blders:
Shape the strategy marketplace
Approve new vault designs
Guide treasury direction
Influence economic policy
Prioritize long-term protocol evolution
$BAentralizes the institution.
It gives Lorenzo a political identity.
This is not governance.
This is participatory financial engineering.
veBANK — Commitment as Capital
veBANK is one of the most philosophically powerful tools in Lorenzo’s design.
When people lock BANK, they lock:
Time
Commitment
Long-term alignment
veBANK rewards patience.
It turns commitment into influence.
It creates a governance culture where longevity matters more than speculation.
This is rare in DeFi — and it gives Lorenzo a stability curve that many protocols lack.
The Fusion of Traditional Wisdom and Decentralized Freedom
Lorenzo is not anti-tradfi or anti-DeFi.
It is a synthesis.
It adopts:
Institutional risk frameworks
Portfolio theory
Quant methodology
Hedging principles
And combines them with:
Smart contracts
On-chain transparency
Permissionless access
Composability
It is neither a hedge fund nor a DeFi experiment —
it is a bridge between two financial civilizations.
Strategy Tokens as Economic Multipliers
When strategies become tokens, they become building blocks for a new economy.
A strategy token:
Can be combined with others
Can be staked
Can be borrowed
Can be used as collateral
Can be incorporated into meta-portfolios
Strategies stop being passive products.
They become active primitives.
This opens the door to a market where users don’t just invest —
they engineer portfolios.
Risk Engineering at the Core
Lorenzo’s design isolates, compartmentalizes, and transparently exposes risk.
Each strategy is sandboxed
Vaults cannot contaminate each other
Parameters are visible on-chain
Smart contracts enforce discipline
This modular risk framework is how institutional-grade systems are built.
Lorenzo is not gambling.
It is engineered finance.
Built for the Tokenized Future
The world is moving toward tokenized:
Assets
Credit
Income streams
Real-world value
Trading strategies
Lorenzo is positioned perfectly for this era because it treats strategies as software — upgradeable, modular, portable. As tokenization becomes mainstream, the infrastructure Lorenzo is building becomes indispensable. Users Become Portfolio Engineers Lorenzo removes the fund manager from the equation. Users interact directly with strategy tokens and vault logic. A beginner becomes a portfolio engineer without needing: A CFA A broker A private banker The complexity lives inside the contracts. The experience is simplified for the user. This is how financial access becomes truly democratic. Conclusion — Lorenzo Is a Strategy Intelligence Powerhouse Lorenzo is not a typical protocol. It is a decentralized financial institution built on: Strategy-as-tokens Modular vault architecture Composable portfolios Participatory governance Democratized quant Software-native finance It is a blueprint for the next generation of asset management — where strategies become liquid digital objects, and every user becomes a builder. Lorenzo is not just innovating. It is redefining what “investing” means in a tokenized century. #lorenzoprotocol @Lorenzo Protocol $BANK