SPS DAO Proposal - PeakMonsters as Player Infrastructure

For many players, PeakMonsters is not just where they buy cards. It is where they understand their collection, manage assets, plan rentals, organize multiple accounts, and make practical decisions about their Splinterlands journey. Even when players choose to buy cards elsewhere because of cashback or other short-term incentives, many still come back to PeakMonsters to manage what they own.

Because PeakMonsters is much more than a market: PeakMonsters is player infrastructure.

This post is a request for the SPS DAO community to continue supporting PeakMonsters as an official Splinterlands marketplace that is eligible to earn market protocol fees.

A Full Ecosystem of Third-Party Tools

A healthy Splinterlands economy needs more than asset listings. Players need tools that reduce friction, help them make informed decisions, and make the game easier to manage as their accounts grow.

PeakMonsters has consistently built around those needs, including:

• Advanced card browsing, filtering, sorting, and bulk actions.
• Market, bid, and rental tools that improve liquidity and price discovery.
• Collection, portfolio, and multi-account management tools.
• Land management tools for one of the most complex parts of the game economy.
• Power tools for bulk opening packs and reviewing pack analytics.
• Custom card deck creation and sharing for planning, teaching, and strategy discussion.
• SPS stake-based polls and DAO proposal pages.
• SPS node validator services offered for free to roughly 450 accounts holding SPS licenses.
• The PKM token distribution program, which rewards PeakMonsters users and helps align the community with platform activity.

These are not just convenience features. They are the kind of tools that keep players engaged after the initial excitement of buying cards. They help users understand what they own, decide what to do next, and stay active in the ecosystem.

Built for the Community, Not Just Fees

PeakMonsters is the only third-party tool that built and continued investing in non-revenue-generating areas like card collection management and land management. Those features are important because they support the actual player experience, not just transaction volume.

The same is true for bulk pack opening, pack analytics, custom decks, SPS stake-based polls, DAO proposal pages, and SPS validator services. These are ecosystem tools. They are not simply market conversion funnels.

Rentals are another major example. Even today, PeakMonsters is the only real alternative for card rentals and the only relevant third-party rental market. Rentals are a low-revenue part of the ecosystem, which is why other markets have generally not focused much on them. PeakMonsters still built and maintained rental tools because rentals matter to players, asset owners, and the overall Splinterlands economy.

Why PeakMonsters Should Earn Market Protocol Fees

PeakMonsters should continue earning market protocol fees because those fees support the development and maintenance of the tools players rely on far beyond simple market transactions. Those marketplace fees are what allow us to offer many of the other tools and services for free.

That is the core point of this proposal. Market protocol fees do not only support a buy-and-sell interface. They support the full set of tools around it.

Closing

For years, PeakMonsters has stood as one of the most trusted and feature-rich platforms in the Splinterlands ecosystem. While many refer to it simply as a "market," that label barely scratches the surface of what PeakMonsters truly is.

Protocol fees should support platforms that create real value for the ecosystem. PeakMonsters has created that value for years, and it continues to do so.

For that reason, we ask the SPS DAO to continue recognizing PeakMonsters as an official marketplace eligible for protocol fees.

Thank you for your consideration and support.

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The PeakMonsters team