Proposal: Keep SPLAT Eligible for Third-Party Market Earnings
Hello Splinterlands community,
Following recent discussions around third-party markets and fee participation, I want to introduce SPLAT and explain why I am asking for continued eligibility.
SPLAT, Splinterlands Marketplace Automated Trading
Who builds SPLAT
SPLAT is a solo project. I designed, developed, and currently maintain the entire platform alone: frontend, backend, infrastructure, blockchain integration, and trading engine. There is no team, no investor, and no marketing budget behind it.
I want to be fully transparent on the numbers. As of today, SPLAT has executed:
- 4,500 cards bought across all users
- 2,900 cards successfully resold
- $38.67 in combined profit generated for traders
- 23.2% average return per completed trade
These are real on-chain figures, not promotional claims. They show that SPLAT is still very early. The revenue is small compared to the development time invested. SPLAT was clearly not built as a quick cash grab.
SPLAT's Landing Page
What makes SPLAT different
SPLAT is not a buy-and-sell interface that competes with the official Splinterlands marketplace. It is a full automated trading infrastructure that operates on top of it, and several technical choices set it apart from every comparable tool.
Native Hive blockchain stream
SPLAT does not poll a third-party HTTP API every few seconds. The detection worker listens directly to the Hive blockchain stream (sm_market_list) and reacts in real time. This is a fundamentally different architecture from competing tools that scan every 5 to 30 seconds. On an arbitrage market, this difference is decisive.
End-to-end automated pipeline
SPLAT covers the full lifecycle of a trade without human intervention:
- Detection, the worker listens continuously to the Hive blockchain stream, no HTTP polling.
- Automated purchase, signing and broadcasting the Hive transaction in milliseconds once an opportunity is validated.
- Automated re-listing, the purchased card is immediately re-listed at a dynamically calculated optimal price.
- On-chain sale tracking, SPLAT detects the actual sale (sm_sell_cards) on-chain and computes real profit.
To my knowledge, no other Splinterlands market tool ships this complete pipeline with native blockchain integration.
The Splat dashboard shows all your trades at a glance.
Dynamic multi-factor pricing engine
The re-listing price is not "buy price + X%". The pricing service factors in:
- The real-time market floor
- The card's edition and level
- The card's position in the order book (via sweepFloor analysis)
- User-configured minimum gain thresholds
- Automatic re-pricing intervals (1h, 6h, 12h, 24h)
It is an adaptive engine that keeps the card competitively positioned in the market over time.
Multi-strategy configurations
Each user can run several independent configurations in parallel, each with granular parameters: edition filter, foil, max level, price thresholds, minimum required discount, bulk purchase rules, balance management with auto-reactivation, and Splintertrendz checks (today's price vs. 14-day low) to avoid catching falling knives.
Cross-chain WAX to Hive arbitrage
SPLAT detects arbitrage opportunities between the Hive marketplace and the WAX marketplace, two different blockchains. This VIP-tier feature flags cards that can be migrated and resold profitably across chains. No other Splinterlands tool offers automated cross-chain analysis between these two markets.
Security and self-custody flexibility
SPLAT offers three distinct authentication models, so the user picks their own trust level:
- Hive Keychain, the private key never leaves the user's browser. SPLAT only receives a cryptographic signature.
- Posting Authority delegation, the user grants SPLAT a delegated authority on Hive without ever sharing a key. This is a native blockchain security pattern, not replicable outside the Hive ecosystem.
- Encrypted server-side key, AES-256-GCM with a 256-bit master key, for users who want full unattended automation.
Market intelligence API
SPLAT can analyze up to 500 cards in a single batch, compare their position in the order book, calculate the cost of sweeping the floor, and return an acceptability flag per card. It works as a market intelligence tool in its own right.
Analytics dashboard
Users get total profit, average ROI, listed portfolio value, average resale time in days, profitability per edition and per foil type (Regular vs. Gold), top-performing cards, and competition analysis per price tier (how many active configs are running in each price range). All of this is updated in real time.
Other infrastructure
- Tiered access with automatic upgrade and downgrade based on activity.
- Per-deal referral cashback, paid out on real profit, not on subscriptions.
- External deals import, users can sync cards bought outside SPLAT into the tracker so they enter the auto re-listing flow.
Splat is a completely transparent marketplace—you can even watch it in action live on our Discord.
What SPLAT contributes to the ecosystem
Even as a small, solo-built project, SPLAT brings concrete value to Splinterlands:
- Increased marketplace activity, every transaction happens on the official Splinterlands marketplace and pays the standard 4% fee. SPLAT mechanically increases recurring volume.
- Price efficiency, by clearing underpriced listings in milliseconds, SPLAT tightens the bid-ask spread and pushes the card economy closer to fair value.
- Immediate utility for new releases, automated configs trade fresh editions from day one, giving newly released cards real activity from minute one.
- Free access, no subscription, no premium tier, no paywall. Any player can connect a Hive account and start trading.
- Cross-chain liquidity, the WAX/Hive arbitrage layer connects two ecosystems and benefits Splinterlands as a whole.
- Live transparency, the public "Listed Deals" page shows what SPLAT detects in real time, anyone can audit the system without even creating an account.
Why SPLAT should continue to earn
The case for keeping SPLAT eligible is straightforward:
- SPLAT generates additional, recurring volume on the official Splinterlands marketplace.
- Every trade pays the standard 4% market fee at the protocol level.
- SPLAT improves price discovery and reduces inefficiencies that would otherwise let underpriced cards sit for hours.
- SPLAT provides a free, secure, blockchain-native automation layer that levels the playing field for traders who cannot manually refresh listings 24/7.
- Continued fee participation funds ongoing development, infrastructure (running a real-time blockchain stream and a 500-card batch analyzer is not free), and new features the community has been asking for.
Features not available anywhere else are available on Splat. Like the best deals to be found on Wax.
I am a solo developer. Allowing SPLAT to continue earning from third-party market activity is what makes it possible to keep the platform free, keep iterating, and keep paying for the infrastructure behind a real-time blockchain pipeline.
While other projects have chosen to compete on cashback percentages, SPLAT has taken a different angle: building a tool that actually moves the market, helps traders capture real opportunities, and feeds volume back into the official Splinterlands marketplace.
Official links
- Website: splautotrader.online
- Live Listed Deals (public): splautotrader.online/listed-deals
- Discord: discord.gg/Zm9BCqHhMc
- X / Twitter: @SplatTrading
Feel free to drop by the Discord with any technical question, feedback, or feature request. Every suggestion goes straight to the dev (me).
No account? No problem. You can purchase the best deals right here on this page, in which case the interface will redirect you directly to Hive Keychain.
Closing
SPLAT is still early, but it is already delivering measurable value: thousands of executed trades, real profit for users, faster price discovery, cross-chain arbitrage, and a free service that any player can use today.
I believe this aligns with the long-term interests of Splinterlands and the SPS DAO, and I respectfully ask for your support so SPLAT can continue operating and growing under this model.
Thank you for your consideration.
, Phanty