🇵🇭Philippines

More than 16% of Filipinos are below the poverty line and 3.27m were unemployed in 2021. Poverty in the Philippines is driving unemployed and low-income owners to explore side hustles.

Niners Guild looks to empower the everyday Filipino who wants to earn more from playing games. Getting paid to play video games is more than just a novelty in 2022.

With 105M in the total population, the Philippines is in an excellent position to become an adoption leader of blockchain and web3 innovation.

The Philippines tops NFT ownership out of 20 countries

The Philippines ranked first for non-fungible token (NFT) ownership with 32% of Filipino internet users owning NFTs. The Philippines also leads the rest of the world with the most monthly active users on MetaMask.

• The Philippines is one of the fastest-growing Internet economies with 12M new digital consumers since the start of the pandemic with a 95% retention rate according to Google's e-Conomy SEA 2021 report.

The play-to-earn industry presents a sustainable economic opportunity in the Philippines with low-income earners potentially creating an additional stream of money 2-3 times their monthly minimum wage from playing blockchain games. There is a strong economic incentive to play and earn.

However, there are still financial barriers.

To participate in play-to-earn games, one has to purchase NFT assets and in some cases, people had to invest a month's worth of their monthly income to start playing Axie Infinity.

The Niners Guild eliminates this financial barrier through our scholarship program, lending NFT assets to our scholars. The guild then receives a share of the tokens that players earn in-game.

From the Philippines to the World

As the Philippines is primed to lead the adoption of NFT gaming, we want to own and develop assets in the metaverse and allow gamers to play from all over the world.