Today, Splinterlands opens the sale of DEC, or DEC-B batteries. These batteries allow players to lock in DEC tokens while only spending 80% of the battery’s value. Much like a locked savings account, DEC-B offers the ability to extract additional value from your DEC tokens.
Today marks the start of the sale of DEC-B, or Dark Energy Crystal Batteries, in Splinterlands.
Two billion DEC-B tokens will be available. Each costs 0.8 DEC or 0.1 TOUCH. However, it looks like a betting system or a savings bond. There are no current use cases for DEC batteries. Therefore, players will be forced to hold these tokens until they can be spent on a future update. However, when used, each battery will be considered worth 1 DIC. Then there is an opportunity to increase the DEC value that you were going to keep anyway!
And although a recent player proposal fell through, the Splinterlands team plans to use these DEC-B tokens. It is therefore not an investment in a completely nebulous future. You can learn more about DEC-B tokens here.
The sale starts soon, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it sell out! You can buy stacks on the Splinterlands DEC page.
Tokenomics Dark Energy Crystals
This is another effort by the Splinterlands team to bring Dark Energy Crystals back to their expected parity of 1000 DEC for 1 USD. In addition to maintaining sales by using DEC tokens as payment (which are then burned to remove them from circulation), Splinterlands has also removed all DEC generation from in-game rewards. The only way to create new DEC tokens is to burn SPS cards or tokens.
However, despite these efforts, DEC’s offer remains inflated, trading at 0.0007 cents each. So for those who believe in the future of Splinterlands and that DEC will one day return to its fixed value, this may be a good investment opportunity. You can buy DEC tokens at around 70% of their expected value and then put them in batteries to increase their value as well.
What is Splinterlands?
Splinterlands is a browser-based collectible card game that runs on the Hive blockchain. Splinterlands has two tiles. Dark Energy Crystals (DEC), the main in-game currency, and Splintershards (SPS), a government token.
Splinterlands is a cross between a deck-building game and an auto-battler. Players use their cards to build a battle formation based on the match rules. Then, once both sides have sent their teams, the maps operate in auto-battle mode until only one team remains. Players earn rewards for winning matches and can also earn additional rewards through daily quests, seasonal rewards, and a recurring two-week ranking contest.