Hello to all the Splinteresting people out there! This was a bit of an unusual month for me as I took a bit of a working vacation to HIVEfest to promote Splinterlands and the SPS DAO as well as network with other builders on the chain. It was a good trip and I think we'll see some interesting developments come out of it, but for now let's do a quick recap of the last month.
There was a lot of time and energy spent in gathering information, designing a presentation and prepping before traveling to HIVEfest. One of the big projects I was trying to finalize and managed to get done just in the nick of time was consulting on the setup for the HIVE EVM bridges and token launches with TribalDex. For that effort the SPS DAO will also be getting 5% of any fees the bridges manage to generate without having to run or manage the infrastructure. Not a bad deal!
One of the other projects I started before leaving and finished after returning was an LP reorganization to get rid of the pools that were not performing and ultimately costing us money on lost fees. We now have a much deeper position on BASE that should provide a much better on and off ramp through Coinbase for our US players with less slippage.
I've worked with the team to gameplan and clarify the recent rewards proposal that we passed which should give us a 3 year rewards runway. The tournaments have already been adjusted as I create all of those manually and the rest should be changing soon. There are a couple of more issues to work out, like voucher distribution algo needing a rewrite. Should be done soon.
The tournament payout rebuild took a while but I'm hoping that with the way the new rewards algo works that I won't have to modify it as much in the future, so that should help make the process more efficient for a few months at least. I'm still hoping we can get to a point where the team has the development bandwidth to redesign tournaments. Maybe after the ongoing guild overhaul.
I've also been getting heavily involved with the miniset design and testing process, much like I did with Conclave Arcana. It's very important to me that we put out the best quality miniset possible as the DAO already put up all of the money up front. We're still working on getting it to where it needs to be, but I feel like we're entering the homestretch as of a couple of days ago. The mechanics are solid and now it's mostly down to card balancing.
There's a few other projects in the works, but I'll wait until they're more firmed up to start sharing details. This was an odd month with me stepping way outside of the comfort zone as I'm not typically a public speaker or 'event' guy, but hey it worked out and it wasn't so bad. Back to my regularly scheduled programming. Thanks for your time and attention and until next time...
This month we ran 2 DAO Sponsored proposals:
Periodic BNB Sales
Reorganize LPs and Expand Base Liquidity
Requesting the SPS DAO to release the monthly payment of 6000 USD to Ethereum wallet:
0x16CABD382b8B482C4Eaef344C4b438a70FadedBE