How is Splinterlands doing these days?
There are constant updates in the game, new card edition was put in place a months ago, a Base listing is in the process, gameplay changes etc. The game is still ticking along but not exactly thriving.
Let’s take a look at the numbers!
The following topics will be covered:
- Number of transactions
- Number of games played
- Number of active daily players
- New accounts created by Splinterlands
- SPS price
The data has been queried from the Splinterlands API in combination with the data from the Hive blockchain.
Number of Transactions
Transactions represent the overall activity in the game. Here is the chart.
Prior to July 2021, the overall data for Splinterlands was low. Then an explosion in the summer of 2021, the number of transactions went up to 5M a day, from the previous 100k daily.
The transactions stayed in the range of 3M to 5M during 2022 as well, but then in 2023 dropped by a lot, to around 800k per day, stayed there for a few months and a further drop in 2024 to around 100k per day.
It should be noted that transactions were intentionally scaled back with the introduction of anti bot measures in multiple steps.
When we zoom in the last year, we get this:
Here we can notice more constant numbers in the last one year timeframe. The transactions have been in the range of 50k to 100k in the whole period, with occasional spikes.
Number of Battles Played
Here is the chart of the daily numbers of games played for the period.
The time period for the chart is one year.
We can notice a very constant number in the period with around 60k battles per day. Although we can notice in the very last period there has been an increase in the number of battles and they have reached 80k. This might be due to new battle mode recently introduced.
In the prior period before 2024 the number of battles has a similar trend with an explosion in 2021 and then a drop in 2022 and 2023.
Number of Renting Operations
The number of renting operations has been growing in the last year and at one point there was more renting operations then any other operation on Splinterlands.
Here is the chart.
After the explosive growth in 2022 and 2023, a massive drop towards the end of 2023 and again a big drop in June 2024, bringing rentals to an absolute new lows of less than 5k per day.
Number of Active Players
This is one of the most important metrics for every dApp, how many active users have there are. Here is a data for daily active users [DAU].
This is a chart for 2024-2025 only.
In the previous period the trend is similar as for the transactions chart.
Here we can notice a steady trend with a small drop in February 2025 from around 7k to bellow 5k.
In the last period the number of DAUs is steady around the 5k mark.
New Accounts Created by Splinterlands
Here are the new Hive accounts created by Splinterlands on a monthly basis.
We can see quite a low numbers for new accounts in 2024, with numbers between 50 to 100 new accounts. As a new account here is counted an account that has purchased a Spellbook.
But what is interesting that in the last month of August 2025, that is not over yet, there is an increase in the numbers and the month will probably end with more than 500 new players.
As a reminder back in the previous bull market there was more than 100k new user per month for a short period of time.
SPS Price
At the end the price for the main token SPS.
The market has been brutal towards SPS. The token was launched in August 2021 and was trading more than 0.5$ for a short period of time. It dropped massively in 2022 from 0.2 all the way to 0.02 where it finished the year.
A further drop in 2023 and 2024 reaching a lows of 0.006. There has been a small increase back in April and May up to 0.015, but again a drop and we are now at 0.007.
Will it go higher this year it remains to be seen.
