Splinterlands 101 - Multiverse Ways to Earn in Splinterlands Ecosystem (credits to @tedus)

Only 2 months, and I've found at least 23 ways to earn in #Splinterlands and its surrounding ecosystem. Of course I have tried almost all of them, just so that I can share them with you without biased. You might be bored by the first few points, but keep reading, and you'll nod your head in agreement with my post.

As always, this is not a financial advice. This is just an informational post for anyone asking:

So you earn money by winning ranked battles? That's it?

Someone
Show them this post, and let it sink into their mind and soul.

MULTIVERSE WAYS TO EARN
IN SPLINTERLANDS ECOSYSTEM

01 ~ RANKED BATTLE REWARDS ~ 01

This is the main reward you'll get by playing the game. You will receive reward in the form of Dark Energy Crystals (DEC), which is the main in-game currency.

There are several factors deciding how many DEC you received once you won a battle:

DEC Reward Pool
Ranked battles are one of the main ways in which Dark Energy Crystals are produced. There is always a pool of DEC rewards, and that pool is constantly divided among the current winning players. This is why the amount of DEC that can be earned per win is always fluctuating. The amount rewarded to each player always depends on the total amount of DEC in the pool.
Current League
The greater your League, the greater your earnings.
Total Number of Players Battling
When fewer players are battling, your share of rewards is greater.
Energy Capture Rate (ECR)
Maximum DEC can be earned with a capture rate of 100%.
Win Streak
When in a win streak, a 5% DEC bonus is awarded for each win streak.
Gold Foil Cards
Each Gold Foil card used will earns an additional 10% DEC bonus.
Alpha / Promo Cards
Each Alpha / Promo card used will earns an additional 10% DEC bonus.
Guild Bonus
Depending on the level of your Guild's Quest Lodge, you can earn a bonus of up to 20%. (read more HERE)
Source: Splinterlands Documentation

At the time of writing this post, current DEC price is US$ 0.01 per DEC.
Source: CoinGecko

02 ~ DAILY QUEST REWARDS ~ 02
Every single day you'll be assigned with a Daily Quest (chosen randomly from 9 possible options). The reward you'll get by completing this Daily Quest is in form of Loot Chest(s). Number of chests earned will depends on your current league.

As of Sept 28th 2021, there's an update by Splinterlands which change the proportion of items received in Loot Chests, as below:

League Card DEC Credits Potion
Bronze III / Novice 10% 0% 45% 45%
Bronze II 20% 0% 40% 40%
Bronze I 30% 0% 35% 35%
Silver III + 50% 25% 0% 25%
Source

During my first season, I was very lucky and opened a daily quest loot chest containing a whooping 73,500 DEC!!! (that's US$ 735 if you use current exchange)
tedus

03 ~ SEASON REWARDS ~ 03
Every season in Splinterlands lasts around 12-16 days. At the end of the every season, player will earned two things:

Season Loot Chests, which number depends on the current league they're in.
Leaderboard Rewards, which also depends on the current league they're in, and on their rank at the end of the season.
Read more HERE.

Season end's rewards are the most anticipated by players (in my opinion), because it gives you the thrill of opening all the chests at once, and hope for a GFL card!

04 ~ SPS AIRDROP ~ 04
Source: Splinterlands SPS Management Page
Starting from August 2021, Splinterlands is giving out free SPS (Splintershards) airdrop to all of its players.

A total of 400M SPS tokens (equivalent to 13.33% of the total token supply) will be airdropped to players based on their in-game assets possession.

This will be distributed every single day for 1 year. Yes, you read it correctly, 365 days of free cryptocurrency. This means approximately 1.1M SPS are distributed total each day.

You can read more about SPS in this SPS White Paper.

Here is a handy AIRDROP POINTS CALCULATOR built by community site Splintercards.com.

At the time of writing this post, current SPS price is US$ 0.88 per SPS.
Source: CoinGecko

05 ~ STAKED SPS REWARDS ~ 05
Source: Splinterlands SPS Management Page
Currently, you have the option to Lock Up or Freeze your SPS (making it unavailable for transfers). This is called Staking. In return for Staking your SPS, you will receive a portion of the daily Staking Rewards (in SPS) per your share of the total amount staked in the game. NOTE: This Staking system will transition to a more active and engaging Player-Staking model once it is ready to be released.

Splinterlands
APR = Annual Percentage Rate

Assuming:

APR is flat throughout the year (which will not, as the more SPS stakers out there, the less APR will become).
500 Staked SPS flat.
Then I will get 500 x 73% = 365 SPS in another year.
This is just an example. Of course I may or may not stake and unstake, depending on my mood. 😁

At the time of writing this post, current SPS price is US$ 0.88 per SPS.
Source: CoinGecko

06 ~ TOURNAMENT REWARDS ~ 06

Every moment there are lots and lots of tournaments held in Splinterlands. There are all sorts of tournament's rules, entry fees, entry fee types that you can join.

One of the tournaments I have joined before is the Stache Classic by ZenSports. I have the opportunity to play in their Bronze weekend qualifier. Unfortunately I lost, but that was a very good experience overall, getting in touch with all the participants, and having our matches reviewed on livestream on Theta TV or Twitch by @kanyeshrayz and @Aggroed himself.

I lost miserably, please forgive me 😅
Find more about the Stache Classic tournaments in ZenSports Discord channel HERE.

07 ~ TOURNAMENT'S SIDE PRIZES ~ 07

Specifically for ZenSports Stache Classic tournament, there are a couple of ways to earn if you're only a spectator.

Livestream Raffles & Giveaways
Me myself has got the chance to win the raffles during their livestream on Theta TV. I won 500 Theta Coins (used to join more raffles) and 1,000 DEC during the livestream of Bronze Weekend Qualifier. Lucky me!
Besides those raffles I won, there are still other raffles throughout the livestream, so spectators have chances to win something. Who doesn't like free stuff?

Bracket Prediction
More free stuff, read below official announcement from ZenSports.
08 ~ GUILDS ~ 08
To cut short, the higher your guild level is, the higher you will get your DEC reward bonus from ranked battle.
Other than that, you can earn passively on collection power (which relate to SPS Airdrop) by buying Gladius Case cards.

To read on Guild's economics for newbie, see HERE.

09 ~ CARDS TRADE ~ 09
Buying and selling cards have been one of the main money-flipping method, simply because your cards are all considered NFT. Limited supply, rarity, and battle-useful cards are the ones with most buy-sell transactions.

Personally, I recommend @MonsterMarket to buy your cards, because of 2 main things:

3% cashback on every card purchase, every, single, time.
MonsterMarket Official Discord Server has a channel named #market-feed which will have automated message should there be any cards which selling price is at least 10% cheaper than the next same card in the marketplace. You can click on the link on the message and it will bring you to the transaction page straight away. See Uraeus price feed below, it's cheaper by 23.48% with the next card in list.

10 ~ CARDS RENTAL ~ 10
For card owners, if you have abundance of cards, you may want to rent them to get side income. For renters, I personally recommend using @PeakMonsters simply because the various filters and features which helped a lot during the time you search for cards to rent.

If you want to read about their Rental Comparison Tool, you can read HERE.

11 ~ BLOGGING ~ 11
Blogging, as I'm doing right now, can earn you lots and lots of crypto tokens. When others with power (Hive Power or SPT Power) upvoted your post, you will be granted Payout of the respective tokens. I mainly blog in @PeakD, Splintertalk, and @Ecency. Let me break down each pros (no cons 😁).

PeakD
When composing my blog, I always (thanks to @ChrisTahir to introduce me to PeakD) chose to use PeakD because of its simple UI (User Interface) and intuitive markdown options. PeakD upvotes will earn you HIVE.
Inception detected!

Splintertalk
Splintertalk is the 2nd layer of Hive Blockchain blogging platform. When you posted on other front-end hive blog platform like Hive.Blog, PeakD, Ecency, or others, if you add #splinterlands and #spt hashtags, it will be automatically posted on Splintertalk platform.
Splintertalk upvotes will earn you SPT (Splintertalk Token).

Ecency
I used Ecency for upvoting, commenting, and browsing posts. This is because Ecency rewards their users with Ecency Points by doing all kind of activities in the platform. Even when you only browsing around, you'll get 0.250 points as heartbeat points. What use is the Ecency Point? Well, my main usage has been to promote my post. Promoted post means more engagement, and hopefully more upvotes (remember upvotes gives you tokens).
1UP
Introducing 1UP, a new HIVE outpost for #PlaytoEarn Blockchain games and NFT assets, headed by our favorite guy @flauwy. I'm personally really excited to see new tokens being introduced in the ecosystem. That means more engagements, more contents, and more earning options by blogging. Only by tagging #oneup, #spt, #nft, #nfts, and/or #dcity, one will be able to be curated by 1UP's curators (and receive ONEUP tokens!!!).
Below are my earned tokens so far and their respective estimated value (except for 68,000 DEC, because I got 73,500 DEC from Daily Quest chest, and spent some for buying cards).

Source: @LeoFinance

12 ~ CURATION ~ 12
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@tedus/splinterlands-101-how-to-explain-splinterlands-to-someone
When you have enough HIVE Power and/or SPT Power, you can become a so-called Curator. When you, as a curator, upvote a post, the post's author will get portion of tokens depending on your power. It's a bit lengthy to explain how much you get by being a curator, but one thing for sure, you'll need to spend lots of time to find good content and upvote them every single day.

Instead of this, I recommend delegating your SPT to @monster-curator instead. By doing this, you can earn SPT daily, and it will be sent out by them straight to your wallet.

Curious on what is delegating SPT and how it works? Read this post HERE by Monster-Curator to learn more.

13 ~ CRYPTO TRADE ~ 13
As the title stated, I think this one will be very clear. For those crypto nerds out there, I believe you know how to trade well.

Buy low, sell high. Always.

Rule of thumb in trading world
14 ~ NFT TRADE ~ 14
About a month ago (couldn't remember exactly when) Splinterlands announced additional usage of its Splintertalk Token (SPT), which is to buy NFT minted by Splinterlands. You can access NFT section in Splintertalk HERE.

Shortly following this release, a lot of people (including myself) got into the world of NFT trading. Meaning they're (I'm) buying at initial release price from Splinterlands, and resell them with a higher price tag. Well, opportunity arrives, and we simply catch it, right?