Good morning Splinterfriends, Hivers and fellow Cryptonerds!
Life has been unusually chaotic lately so I wanted to take a moment and slow it down. I haven't really taken stock of what I have recently and what's worse - I haven't really updated my goals.
Without "Goals", one can't make a "Plan". Without a "Plan" one cannot tell if they're improving or heading in the right direction.
I have hit my first THREE Staked SPS goals and I am eyeballing that 4th one... though it is far into the distance...
Goal 1 was 100k
Goal 2 was 250k
Goal 3 was 500k
I'd like to note that it has taken me 3 years to hit 500k... so it may take some time to hit 1,000,000... However, with prices suppressed like they are... this is a phenomenal opportunity to stack some extra SPS via FIAT... but that's not my path.
I plan on continuing to grow my Staked SPS balance by doing the following:
1 - Ranked Battles.
I play in and use my 
Please note: In addition to the League you play in, in order to maximize your earnings, it requires a significant amount of Staked SPS... and this was recently DOUBLED (oof)...
I was excited when I reached enough to get the 10X Bonus for Champion I... but with the recent doubling of these requirements, I only get 8X Bonus in Champ I... 834K will be the next Tier for me at Champ I... so I better keep stacking SPS!!
2 - Brawls.
My guild, Bitcoin & Brews brawls in the Tier 4 Guild Brawls and we average about 100 SPS per Brawl. While we only receive this opportunity twice per week or so, that's an extra 200 SPS each week towards my Staked SPS 😊
3 - Validator Nodes.
I have a few of these and each day they add SPS to my Staked SPS Balance (Vouchers too).
With 7 Validator Nodes I currently earn +/- 122 Staked SPS each day from them and a little over 28 Vouchers too!
4 - I currently earn additional Staked SPS from playing Soulkeep - but those rewards are paused due to some technical errors on Double Coconuts side...
Hopefully I will be able to supplement the earnings with Soulkeep winnings but that's a bit tough as the competition has really heated up lately.
SplinterlandsRU-Pro, Thallid and some other Cyrillic Alphabet Guild have been Multi-Accounting and Collaborating to "Farm" these Rewards... which makes it very difficult to dislodge them from the top spots and earn much... difficult but not impossible 😤
The Winnings are constantly changing and sometimes they are 0... but other times > 1,000 Staked SPS!! It's hard to calculate but I'd say about 400 SPS per day on average when the Tournaments are up and running - even with the Russian Mafia making life difficult!
I think these are all the ways I add to my Staked SPS Balance at the moment. I was adding my Staked Rewards and Pool Rewards as well... but upon hitting the 500k Staked, I have shifted my plan for those Rewards to other things...
In total it seems I receive:
100 SPS per day from Ranked Battles or 700 SPS per week
121 SPS per day from Validator Nodes or roughly 850 SPS per week
300 SPS per day average from Soulkeep
100 SPS per Brawl and with 2 Brawls per week, or about 200 SPS per week
Daily I'd say I can expect about 521 SPS Per Day from Battles/Nodes/Soulkeep and when you add in the extra 200 SPS or so from the Brawls, that adds up to roughly 3,850 SPS Per Week from Battles/Nodes/Brawls... Hey that's not bad!!
With the goal of earning another 500k Staked SPS... and my income being roughly 1,750 SPS per week... that's only... 130 Weeks of earning... or 2.5 more YEARS... womp womp...
Side Note: If you are unfamiliar with these terms...
Staked SPS Rewards are automatically added to your Staked SPS Balance and Unstaking them to Sell/Transfer/Etc is a Four Week Process. After electing to "Unstake" you will receive 25% of the amount you chose after 7 Days. This repeats 4 times for your 100% Unstake Amount after a total of 4 Weeks.
Liquid SPS Rewards are available IMMEDIATELY to Sell/Transfer/Etc and this makes them a bit more versatile!
5 - Staked SPS Rewards.
Based on the 
Holy cow, I am so close to my goal of 100 SPS from Staked SPS rewards and didn't even know it!!
As a bonus, for those who stake SPS, you also receive Vouchers and based on that calculator, this will net about 11.5 Voucher per day!
6 - Liquidity Pool Rewards.
I have a portion of my SPS dedicated to the SPS:DEC Liquidity Pool...
According to this screenshot, the reward is 15% APR in the form of Liquid SPS rewards.
According to Tribaldex, I have about 48.5k SPS and 494k DEC in the LP
The LP earnings generate about 40 SPS per day, which is not a bad amount!
Now, I would LOVE for my Pool Rewards to be 100 SPS per day but based on what I see, that would require me to more than DOUBLE my SPS:DEC holdings to 100k SPS:1MDec or a little above... I'm not saying I won't get there... it just won't be easy... Especially when you consider that I am trying to also DOUBLE my Staked SPS amount to the 1 Million mark :P
If you add the 98 SPS from Staked Rewards and the 40 SPS from the Pool Rewards together, this brings my Liquid SPS Rewards to roughly 135 SPS per day!!
My plan for the incoming "Liquid SPS" is as follows:
A. 33% Goes to Tribaldex and is converted into Hive to Power Up!
B. 33% Goes to Tribaldex and is added the SPS:DEC LP
C. 33% Goes to Metamask to be converted into other Crypto
This is going to allow me to grow my HP faster than before, especially paired with the weekly FIAT buys! 10k HP here we come!!!
With my SPS income written calculated, let's take a look at the incoming DEC...
1 - I have some of my collection up for rent but these are the cards I don't play much.
As you can see, from this account I get about 450 DEC/day at the moment... but when the Max GF Meriput Magician rents out... that's a good day!
I also get another 500 DEC per day from my other accounts rentals but my primary focus has been increasing the collection of my main account CaptainDingus :)
2 - Once per week, I do a Grain Harvest on my Plots spread across my accounts and swap this for DEC. This yields about 5k DEC per week which is a nice bonus :)
Typically I use this to add Dark Energy to plots so I can grow my farming!
All told, I probably receive about 1,000 DEC per day and then about 5,000 DEC per week for a total of 12,000 DEC/week...
While you can't make a living off this, it definitely helps add to my collection!
All total, I have a nice chunk here and while I am very, very... VERY much so in the RED with my Investments over the past 3 years... I have a feeling that 2025 will be a great year for everyone and allow us all to sell a very small portion of our assets to reach "Breakeven", should we choose to do so!
Until then... and far beyond... I shall continue to add to my collection as I believe Splinterlands and the affiliated games are going to be a big part of Web3Gaming, which is the future of gaming in my opinion!
That's all I have for you today folks!! Thank you for reading and I would LOVE for you to join me in game!!
Naturally, after everything leading up to this moment, I do think Splinterlands and Soulkeep are some of the BEST web3 games out there!
They bring the #play2earn feature to the forefront of development as well as many opportunities for people to earn rewards - whether Player or Investor!!
If you're interested in the future of gaming, it's worth checking out!
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Cheers 🍻,
- CaptainDingus
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