In this Splinterlands Social Media Challenge, the topic we will address will be the Trade Hub, which is a marketplace where you can exchange Dark Energy Crystal, the famous DEC, for Voucher tokens. Come and find out more about Vouchers and how the Trade Hub works so that you can exchange your tokens quickly and easily on the Splinterlands website. Find out everything now!
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What is a Voucher and what is its usefulness?
The Voucher is a token designed to reward players who believe in the game and are in it for the long term. This reason made it mainly given as a reward to players who have Node License and SPS Stake. In Licenses, players currently receive 4 vouchers and 15.8 SPS, giving an APR of 23.0%, while in SPS Staking there is an APR of 11.39% paid partly in SPS and partly in vouchers, remembering that in staking there are more utilities such as the boost in the game. Vouchers were mostly used as a form of discount on Splinterlands offers, but with the arrival of the exclusive Lyra & Lorn’s store, vouchers are now mainly used to get these more special cards. The new Tasohi Drakamoto card was recently added to the game, which players can access by purchasing through this exclusive store, costing 250 vouchers per card. ---
Splinterlands Voucher Trade Hub
The Voucher Trade Hub is a place to exchange resources within the Splinterlands website itself, meaning the player does not need to leave the website and go to a Decentralized Exchange to get voucher or DEC tokens. I believe that this new exchange option within the NFT game was implemented due to the changes that occurred in the Voucher token.
Previously, the Voucher was a tradable token in some Hive DECs, but after a proposal that was voted on by players, the token became soulbound, which means that from that moment on it was no longer possible to withdraw the vouchers from the account, which on the one hand maintained its proposal of being something more exclusive, but generated some fear in the community because it showed that the game can make big changes to its tokens, if the DAO so decides. There are still vouchers that had already been sent out of the game before the proposal being traded for $0.021 on external marketplaces.
Now with the implementation of the Trade Hub, players can sell 1 DEC for 0.039 Voucher or compose 1 Voucher for 26 DEC, based on the current exchange rates. Remember that the amount will vary according to the market price and there is a 10% fee, of which 5% goes to the market shareholders and 5% is burned. Thus, in addition to allowing indirect trading of the voucher again, it gives more utility to DEC, which is one of the main tokens in the game, and reduces the supply each time there is an exchange.
In the end, I decided to carry out a test to get a better opinion about Trade Swap. The test was very simple, I placed 1 Voucher to be exchanged for 21 DEC, when clicking on Swap, it took less than 5 seconds and the tokens were already exchanged. This is a change that seems simple, but it guarantees players an easy way to exchange their tokens and another way to participate in the Splinterlands ecosystem. Maybe you don't have much time to play every day, but you liked the game's proposal, you can become a merchant by providing liquidity.
The interesting thing is that Splinterlands is increasingly implementing new forms of decentralized finance within the game. Now you can become a merchant by creating a type of pool with Voucher and DEC and provide liquidity to players interested in exchanging tokens, profiting from the fees in the same way that occurs in liquidity pools within DeFis. In this case, it would be the combination of games with defis, known as GameFis, which are a way to gamify finances. This is already happening in lands, with resource pools with DEC and is now available with vouchers. Will we see an expansion of the Trade Hub in the future, including land tokens and perhaps SPS?
