Introduction
Hi! @saydie here playing Splinterlands everyday.
This time, I want to share to everyone this amazing platform that allows that allows people to borrow a deck unlike the in game Splinterlands rental market or 3rd party market such as Peakmonsters where right now, you still need to rent cards individually. It was the Gateway platform from NFTY Arcade and players does not need to pay for rental fees when borrowing decks but instead, the player will split the share with the deck owner making it more accessible to everyone. This post will be a guide on how to access the site and get a deck delegation.
Creating Gateway Account and Linking Splinterlands Account
In order to start borrowing a deck, you first need to create a Gateway account by entering the required information and once you're done, you can now login to the site. Once you are in, go to the Portfolio tab so that you can start to link your own Splinterlands account. this was done by entering your account name and grant the active authority to make the account valid to borrow the deck then finish the transaction by clicking the Link Collection and granting the authority using your Hive Keychain.
Note:As a borrower, you give lenders access to all claimable SPS in your account. Claimable SPS is not to be confused with staked SPS - once it’s staked, we have no access to it.
Before you borrow anything, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CLAIMED ALL OUTSTANDING SPS. Any SPS that is claimed after you start the borrowing period will be subject to the % split that you share with the lender.
Getting Deck Delegation
Now that you finished creating an account, you can now start to lend a deck by going to the Market tab to find the deck listing. There, you can use the filter by selecting Available and the league of the deck you want to rent or look at the Waitlist for decks that are currently being borrowed and click on the Waitlist button to get notified when the deck was available for delegation through the e-mail used to create the account. When you find the deck that you want to choose, click on the View Details button to go to Review Listing and finalized the deck delegation.
Under Review Listing, you can take a closer look at the cards of the deck you have chosen and as well as the League Requirement it can play and what is the Minimum Rating needed for that deck. You can also see the Player Split that tells how much you can earn by playing that deck. The Duration tells how long you can lend that deck and can be set for a Set Date, Season where you can play it until EOS or Indefinite or as long as the lender wants you to play their deck. If you were able to fulfill this requirements, then you can now click the Request button, approve the Hive Keychain transaction and there will be up to 24 hours for a site notification saying that you can now play the deck on your Splinterlands Account but it usually takes moments to for the deck to be delegated.
As we are now at the beginning of new season, I was able to borrow another deck and they were both at max level which means I can play them at Diamond or even at Champion league. @agonyaccepted got a max Chaos Legion delegation form @brokebloke with few missing cards including the recent summoner airdrops but all were gold foil including the summoner while @crimepoet also got max Chaos Legion delegation from @spl-decks which has the complete set aside from the summoner airdrops. With that said, I can just manually rent the missing cards as well as rent some key Modern cards such as Dr. Blight or Lux Vega to increase my win rate though it will be deducted from my reward split but if it will allow for me to increase my win rate, I would probably be able to cover that rental cost since I was able to earn more in terms of SPS and unlock more chest.
Note: If you if you attempt toLOCK, DELEGATE, COMBINE, SELL, RENT, or TRANSFERany of these cards and/or packs before they are sent to the lender, Gateway will automaticallyREMOVEyou from the listing and ban your account.
Earnings and Reward Split
Every 24 hours you will received an email notification about your earnings. The SPS transaction reflects on the Currency Activity tab of Splinterlands while you can check the cards and pack transfers using Peakd. At the bottom of the Portfolio tab, there is the Revenue Share Stats where we can see the summary of revenue share which is updated every 24 hours. The one I have below was what I earned from the last season. I was able to earn more on the @agonyaccepted account with only gold level deck at 90% reward split than @crimepoet account with max level deck at 30% but if you factor the quality of chest, you can say that @crimepoet account has just a really poor luck because its season chest was at champion quality and if I were able to pull huge SPS, then I could have double or triple the earnings even at 30% reward Split.
Deck Lending
For those who want to use the platform to delegate their deck, you can do it by going to the Listing tab and clicking on the Add Listing button and after that, you will see the Add New Listing where you need to fill the information required like Lusting Title, Default League, Minimum Rating and Lender Split. On this sample, set the league to Bronze at 0 minimum rating with 60% lender split which means I will get 60% of the player who will borrow my deck. You can also choose whether you want it Listed on Market or for Private Listing so you can choose the player for that deck. After that is choosing the duration of delegation whether it is on a Set Period, Season or Indefinite.
Once that everything was done you can now press the Add New button and select the account where the deck you want to delegate are located. As for this sample, the cards were located on the @agonyaccepted account and has Chaos Legion and Riftwatchers Bronze level cards. After all the cards you want to delegate were selected, you can now proceed on lending the deck by clicking on the Create Listing button and authorize the Hive Keychain transaction and your deck was now ready for someone to use.
Final Thoughts
The Gateway platform from NFTY Arcade was still in it's Beta so the site was a little bit slow and some bugs might occur at some point but giving the opportunity for small players to be able to use set of decks and play on their chosen leagues without the immediate hustle of renting all the cards they need creates an evolution on how the scholarship program works. Some games still needs for you to give the account's username and password to the scholar and hopes that they will not do anything about the assets there but with this, you do not need to worry as the scholar is just using the delegated deck. As for the reward cards and packs, there was still some fear that it can be moved or sold before the transfer to the card lender but if they do that, they will be banned by the system so I doubt that anyone would do that. SPS gets transferred to the card lender when it was unstaked so there is no fear of that getting stolen too.
Right now, it is undeniable that the game had lots of bots and I'm not that against bots as it make it easier to find match opponents and I can't imagine how long I will wait if there were no bots but if by any chance, the owner of those bot farms, started to delegate their decks on the platform, the problem with matching time will be resolved little by little and will also help the community. At some point, it might also be able to gather new player based for the game as they can be allowed to play the game with only the spellbook as investment and in case that they find the game fun and see the opportunity that this game has to offer, they might eventually invest in the game. Honestly, I can see that the developers of this platform loved the game and wants to help the game to have a healthy community with this platform.
At this moment, Gateway only supports Splinterlands but they have plans to eventually expand this platform on various NFT games so it will also eventually get scholars from other games which in return increase the earning opportunity for small players. Before I forgot, they also have a Discord so if you have concerns and other questions, feel free to ask and the community there was also really nice.
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