Thread by @ljin18

Announcing the Leaping Corgi Scholarship for players to start earning in the metaverse with @YieldGuild!

Play-to-earn is a new category of games where players earn in-game assets & tokens that can be turned into IRL income.

(read on for how to support!)
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During the pandemic, as local jobs dried up, play-to-earn game @AxieInfinity helped people around the world put food on the table, pay rent, and pay off debt.

Players are earning between $500-1000 per month playing the game—which is often higher than local minimum wage jobs.

For all of the game’s promise, there are barriers to entry: to play Axie Infinity, a player must first purchase a team of three Axies, which are themselves NFTs.

That's prohibitively expensive for many: a starter team of Axies can easily cost upwards of $500.

That dynamic threatens to plague virtual worlds with the same structures of inequality that exist offline, with those in greatest need of play-to-earn’s potential being excluded from participating.

That's where @YieldGuild and this scholarship comes in!

The Leaping Corgi Scholarship will help new players get onboarded, by purchasing and renting teams of Axies to players who would be otherwise unable to afford the assets necessary to play the game.

YGG is also providing players with training and support along the way.

Want to support the scholarship?

We're selling 20 editions of the Leaping Corgi Scholarship NFT, with all proceeds going towards funding new scholars! Check it out:

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This scholarship was kickstarted by generous donations from @richerd and @ArtOutland, who are co-owners of my recent NFT:

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Leaping Corgi Scholarship NFT artwork was created by the talented @st_heresy

The UCI NFT was co-created by me & illustrator Annie Zhao bananie.zone

More background!

https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1405902394895081473

Many thanks to @gabusch @leah_cb @richerd @ArtOutland for helping to make this happen!!