When we talk about Splinterlands, the first thing that comes up to people's minds is a play-to-earn NFT game. After all, it is what it is. A game where we can convert or sell our rewards into our local currency.
Unbeknownst to many, there are several ways to earn from Splinterlands, aside from just grinding on the game.
I cannot mention all of these additional ways to earn from the game. But I will be discussing those that enabled me to purchase my first drawing tablet. :)
Blog-to-Earn: Posting Competitions and Challenges
As I am already saying, there are a lot of ways to earn from Splinterlands, aside from just directly playing the game. One of these is by making an article about the game and posting it online.
Every week, Splinterlands organizes 3 blog-to-earn challenges where curators reward the authors with upvotes. These are; the Share your Battle Challenge, Social Media Challenge, and an Art Contest.
Of course, all of these must be related to Splinterlands.
Here is a short description of each. For more complete information, you can check their official Hive account, @splinterlands.
Or, much better, follow them to be updated when a new contest is initiated.
Share your Battle Challenge
This is where participants will blog about a specific card each week. And when I happen to have a good battle as a result of the weekly featured card, I do make a post about it and present it as my entry.
Social Media Challenge
The same thing when I write a review about a card, an ability, a ruleset, or anything I want to talk about related to Splinterlands. I will an article about it, post it using my Hive account, share it on other social media platforms and present it as an entry for their weekly social media challenge.
Arts Contest
Out of the three, this is my personal favorite. What I like about this is you don’t have to be good at art to participate. I was just a beginner at art and I've decided that participating in this contest is the best strategy to improve my skill.
It doesn’t matter how much reward I get. Participating alone is fun and it’s a win-win situation for me.
Hive Curators and HE Token Curators
Splinterlands have dedicated curators that upvote the work of the participants. Additionally, there are also a lot of other curators who have a large stake on Hive that upvotes the works of authors with quality content.
Also, there are tribe curators who instead of rewarding authors with Hive, reward them with second-layer tribe tokens. And these tribe tokens that were rewarded to me is what I used to buy myself a drawing tablet.
Similar to first-layer curators, there are also a lot of dedicated tribe curators.
The most prominent 2nd layer token curator that I’ve known is the OneUp Cartel. They are a multi-community supporter that curates content on different Hive communities.
Storing my Rewards on Liquidity Pools
At first, I don’t know what to do with the 2nd layer tokens that were rewarded to me. I don’t want to sell them so I constantly powered up a portion of some of the tokens. For the rest, I placed them on liquidity pools. I did this for every token that I get until it came to a point where the total equivalent value of all of my assets on liquidity pools is around 100 USD.
Screenshot from TribalDEX.
Buying the Drawing Tablet
As far as I am concerned, I don’t feel like selling all of the tokens that were rewarded to me. Especially if it’s an amount that can drastically reduce the price of the token.
For me, it feels wrong to thank someone by reducing the market price of their token.
However, it has come to a point that I also really wanted the tablet. I never had one before and I am thinking that it would greatly improve my art output if I have one. I don’t have any cash on hand at the time and the only way I can buy one is to sell my liquidity pool assets. This took me a week of thinking to finally come up with the decision.
And as I needed around 100 USD for my tablet and I don’t want to affect the market too much, I slowly placed a sell order in small amounts. It took me around 3 to 5 days to convert all of these tokens into my local currency.
As a part of my final decision, I made up my mind to give back by using it to improve my artwork and if possible, work as a community curator. Fortunately, I was accepted by the OneUp Cartel. It is the reason why I have lesser free time to participate in the art contest. But I have no regrets, I am actually thankful as I am also continuously meeting more people, and discovering communities and projects in the process. :)
Final thoughts
Splinterlands is indeed a play-to-earn game where you can sell your winnings to fiat or local currency. In addition to this, there are a number of ways too that we can earn from the game aside from just grinding. One of which is blog-to-earn.
One of the good things about Splinterlands is, you don’t need to put your whole focus on the game. This makes it possible to blog-to-earn too while playing at the same time.
And this is how Splinterlands bought me my first ever drawing tablet.
Thank you for taking your valuable time to read my post. I hope that it is worth your time.
If you also happen to have a similar story playing Splinterlands, kindly let me know in the comments below. :)
Again, thank you for your time, and have a great day ahead.
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Attributions:
All photos in here are my own, unless, otherwise credit.
Splinterlands logo from Splinterlands
ListNerds logo from ListNerds.
Cartel Banner from the OneUp Cartel.