Splinterlands and the Emergence of Yield Guild's SubDAOs

Yield Guild Games continues to position itself as a major stakeholder in the ever expanding play-to-earn (P2E) ecosystem of the Metaverse. Those following their journey closely are met with a constant flow of new partnership announcements, seed investments, NFT acquisitions, special community events, and alpha trials of the latest up and coming games. Yield Guild manages all of this and its 10K+ scholars successfully, but one might start to wonder how this scales as scholar counts rise into the hundreds of thousands — and one day millions. Enter: the SubDAO.

SubDAOs, such as YGGSPL (it’s Splinterlands-specific SubDAO), seek to remedy some of the pitfalls decentralized organizations like Yield Guild run into as they expand into an increasing number of games with soaring scholar numbers. Splinterlands is the game at the centre of Yield Guild’s new SubDAO. It’s a digital trading card game built on Hive, but also has functionality across several other blockchains