How You Can Earn from Splinterlands?

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Splinterlands is more than just a digital card game, it’s a blockchain-powered ecosystem where your cards, time, and skill can generate real-world crypto rewards. Whether you're a casual player, investor, or strategist, there are several paths to earn:

🎴 1. Ranked Battles

The bread and butter of gameplay earnings.

• Play competitive matches against others to earn Reward Shares (Rshares).

• These shares determine your cut of the SPS rewards pool at the end of each battle you win.

• You also earn Glint, a spendable in-game token used for rewards like cards, packs, and potions.

• Playing Promo and Gold Foild Cards boosts rewards by 10% per card.

• To unlock these earnings, you’ll need to buy the Summoner's Spellbook for $10 (one-time purchase).

🏰 2. Brawls (Guild-Based Battles)

Join a guild and enter weekly team tournaments:

• You earn Merits, spendable on Guild Store items like Gladius card packs to get Gladiator cards.

• Top performers may also earn SPS tokens.

• Brawls are competitive but cooperative, so the stronger your guild, the better your earnings.

🌍 3. Land Gameplay

Splinterlands isn’t just about battles, there’s a virtual economy too.

• Stake cards and DEC tokens to Land Plots.

• Produce resources like Grain, Research Points, Wood, Stone, Iron, and even mine SPS.

• Resources can be used, traded, or sold. There are Liquidity pools for each.

• Land gameplay favors both active and passive players.

🔥 4. Burning Cards for DEC

Every card in Splinterlands has cash potential.

• You can "burn" extra or unused core cards for DEC, the core in-game currency. Reward cards can be burned for Glint tokens, and Gladiator cards can be burned for Merits tokens.

• Rarer and leveled-up cards yield higher DEC.

• This can turn excess cards into liquidity for new purchases or withdrawals.

💸 5. Selling and Renting Cards

Whether you’re a collector or a strategist:

• You can sell cards on the Splinterlands Market for DEC tokens

• You can rent out cards to other players and get paid primarily in DEC tokens.

• Renting is ideal for passive income, especially if you own cards you don’t actively use.

💡 Note: Credits are an in-game-only currency you can use to buy cards or packs but cannot cash out. Renting/Selling typically earns DEC, which is cashable.

💼 6. Cash-Out System

One key thing to understand: Splinterlands accounts are Hive wallets under the hood when you create an account, you're actually creating a Hive blockchain wallet.

The common cash-out path is:

1. Transfer DEC or SPS to Hive-Engine (via the in-game interface).
2. From Hive-Engine, you can trade these tokens for HIVE or other cryptocurrencies.
3. Finally, send HIVE to a major exchange like Binance, Coinbase, or Kraken to convert to fiat (USD, EUR, etc.). DEC and SPS are held on Hive-Engine, a side marketplace for the Hive blockchain (not the core Hive wallet). You’ll use Hive Keychain (a browser extension or mobile app) to interact with your wallet. When you're ready to cash out:

⚠️ Note: The Hive blockchain itself doesn’t directly handle DEC or SPS, it’s the Hive-Engine that acts as the token layer. When moving SPS off-chain to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) or Ethereum (ETH), you’ll use the in-game SPS management page for cross-chain transfers (with applicable bridge fees).

💎 7. Other Ways to Earn

• Scholarships

  Splinterlands doesn’t have a formal scholarship system like some other blockchain games but the community has developed similar arrangements.

  How it works:

  • A card owner or investor who has a large card collection but no time to play will lend cards (or even entire accounts) to another player.

  • The borrower uses these cards to play Ranked Battles, Brawls, Survival Mode, etc.

  • Rewards (DEC, SPS, Merits, etc.) are typically shared between the card owner and the player. The percentage split is agreed upon privately, often 50/50, 70/30, or even custom depending on the collection quality and player skill.

  There are also guilds and rental services (sometimes informal, sometimes organized on Discord) that connect owners and players. It’s especially common for competitive players who can’t afford meta decks upfront.

• Running Validator Nodes

  If you’re more technically inclined or prefer passive crypto income, Splinterlands offers a validator node program.

  What is a Validator Node?

  • Validator nodes help secure the Splinterlands ecosystem by processing and verifying transactions and votes related to the game, especially concerning its governance token, SPS.

  • By running a node, you help decentralize and secure the platform, and in return, you’re rewarded in SPS tokens.

  How to earn from it:

  1. You must purchase a Validator Node License

  2. After purchasing the license, you run the validator software on your own machine or a cloud server (VPS).

  3. Rewards are paid out in SPS, usually on a fixed schedule (the pool is split among active node operators).

  4. Node operators may also get additional benefits like future governance votes or early access to game features.

  💡 It’s similar to staking or mining in other crypto ecosystems, but specifically tied to Splinterlands’ governance and ecosystem growth.

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