Splinterlands - Where Are The Cards Stored?
I read online from some NFT holders concern about not being able to see their assets. This is related to OpenSea being unable to transfer the actual NFT to an Ethereum wallet. Bottom line it appears OpenSea is not a decentralized platform and that all of the NFTs on its platform is tracked via an internal database. The database searches for NFTs from multiple blockchains and loads local images of the NFTs on its platform. This made me wonder where do our Splinterlands cards come from?
Amazon CloudFront
I myself not a programmer and simply looked through card images and right clicked. I found that they came through on CloudFront.
Then I took a deeper dive into seeing how I could get stats on my cards and found this as a core link:
https://steemmonsters.com/cards/metadata?id=xxx
Where you have to replace "xxx" with the code name of your card. Each card has a independent Card ID.
Using Kobold Miner as an example this is how my card looks at level 4.
https://steemmonsters.com/cards/metadata?id=C-UYQ1Y55CN4
Click on link above has this populate:
From there it has a link image directly to where the level 4 Goblin Miner would be saved:
The links appear to still reference "steemmonsters" the original name of the game prior to changing to splinterlands. Out of curiosity I replaced the name to splinterlands in the links and can confirm they direct to nothing.
Conclusions
It is interesting that the old pieces of the game still remains, such as a steemmonsters link. To see if even the latest Chaos Legions cards are linked it is clear that they are when I did a test run.
Its pretty cool to see where the cards images originate from and how it has evolved over the years.
Until next time thanks for reading!!!
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One remark: the Splinterlands (or Steemmonster) NFT is not the picture, but the picture + unique number + attributes + history of the card (leveling up, battles, etc...). The NFT is stored on the HIVE blockchain. It is not technical feasible or meaningful to store images on the blockchain (you would load several blocks with one picture, and you will create congestion). Anyone can make a copy of a picture and store it anywhere else. Important is the ownership of the NFT as defined above.
Yes I should have added the comment that the Card ID is the finger print of the NFT and that each one is unique in itself. Thanks for clarifying.
I wanted to give almost the exact fun comment. :D
The code is on the chain, and this is the most important part.
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The base image has to be stored somewhere.
The other option to using cloudfront would be for Splinterlands to do a post with each base image and then pointing to that base image to build the actual card.
When I was still keeping up with my To The Moon Tracker, I do a similar method. I have the base background image, the coin image and then I build the text from the data I get.
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