Splinterlans Is Pushing The Number Of Custom Json Transactions On Hive To ATH Levels

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In the last three days Splinterlands have made record after record in the number of transactions made on the blockchain, going from 1M to 1.5M and yesterday July 26, to 2M transactions per day!

What a growth! For now, the blockchains seems to be handling it all without any significant issues. Let’s take a look at the charts.

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As mentioned Splinterlands has made a new record high in transactions just yesterday, with 2M transactions per day.

The period that we will be looking here is June 2020 – July 26, 2021.

Number Of Transactions Per Day

Here is the chart.

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Disclaimer: The chart above contains all the custom json transactions on Hive, but in the last day, more than 95% of all the json belong on Splinterlands. In the past this is somewhere around 90%.

We can see the enormous growth in the last few days. In the last year, Splinterlands was around 500k transactions per day until February 2021, then it started growing and reached 800k in June 2021.
In the last week it has reached 1M and then a spike to 2M.

Here is the zoom in for the last month.

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From here we can see more clearly the growth in the last month. From under 800k to 2M transactions. A 3x in one month.

Number Of Transactions Per Month

Here is the monthly chart for the period.

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Note July 2021 is not over yet, there is five more days left, that can potentially add another 10M transactions pushing the July column to 35M transactions.

The growth is more stable in terms of monthly transactions, and it went from 14M in June 2020 to probably 35M in July 2021. If July ends as predicted we will see a significant jump in the number of transactions for July, that is already at ATH.


This is a bit shorter posts then my usual ones, but Splinterlands is really making some numbers these days and wanted to put this one fast.
The Hive blockchain seems to be handling the transactions smoothly. More then 2M transactions per day is a lot for a blockchain. For comparison BTC is around 200k to 400k transactions, Ethereum is just above 1M. BSC is above 5M, and the one with most transactions Polygon is going for 10M.

Will be interesting to see how will things go if the transactions hit like 10x from now, 20M? Maybe at some point Splinterlands will need to run their sidechain?
A note on the Splinterlands transactions, although a lot, they are less heavy than the post, which are with more data in them.

All the best
@dalz

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I hear that there are a lot of bots that are on Splinterlands - they could be pushing up the transaction rates too.

The bots are a mixed blessing. They do provide liquidity (and each account must have "purchased" a spell book and put money into the game). They also provide enough "players" so when you are looking for a match to play you can normally get one quickly. However it does take away a lot of the games-man-ship and fun from pitting your wits against anothers.

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do you play?

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Yes, I play. I don't run a bot.

The techy part of me wonders how a bot would work. I get that running the transaction itself on the blockchain isn't too bad (rather than via a GUI), but how would it select "battle winning" cards?

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No clue how the bots work either, all too complicated for me. I just like to play and sometimes prefer playing against bots as it's easier to win! lol

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No clue how the bots work either, all too complicated for me. I just like to play and sometimes prefer playing against bots as it's easier to win! lol

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I noticed that you (accidentally) published the same comment again. 🕵️‍♂️ The first one was at https://peakd.com/@michealb/qwyd2i. 👈 Please tell me if you want to delete your previous duplicated comment so that I could remove my comment there. 😅

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How would it select "battle-winning" cards?

Short answer: use AI. 😅

Long answer: The bot should automatically learn from its own battles (and those of others) which lineups for every battle with a specific Ruleset, Mana Cap, and Allowed Splinters (and optionally, opponent preferences). 🤓 Additionally, I think that the bot should allow the player to choose which cards are best for each ruleset, mana cap, and splinters allowed. 😏

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Kind of my thoughts too. Collection power kind of made it tough for bots to earn rewards. So bots aren't even bad as they used to be.

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2M transactions per day without any significant issues

Its a good testimony of the second layer, does size of each transaction would matter ?

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There are issues with battles in splinterlands.
I lost 3 battles today, cuz I can't sing transaction to battle.

default node is busy

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It was sl interlnal issue, its ok now

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It happens to me too. I had to look closely in each battle to see if my lineup gets submitted within a certain period of time (roughly 15 seconds), then refresh the page to try sending the same lineup again.

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There are issues with battles in splinterlands.
I lost 3 battles today, cuz I can't sing transaction to battle.

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There are issues with battles in splinterlands.
I lost 3 battles today, cuz I can't sing transaction to battle.

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I noticed that your comment published using #Splintertalk was posted three times. 🤔

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keychain show that transaction was timeouted so i trying again and again and after couple of minutes i saw that it was 3 of them there was big delay on default node.

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Have you tried changing the node which your Hive Keychain app connects to? 🤔

I changed mine to https://api.deathwing.me/ yesterday, and the problems drastically reduced for me. 😀

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Yes, I changed to the fastest node by using benchmark in peakd.
Applied to keychand and peakd.

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What is "keychand"? Do you mean Hive "Keychain"?

Normally, I don't mind "slow" connections to RPC nodes; I just want to avoid errors and failed transactions as much as possible.

Thanks for the suggestion to use #PeakD's benchmarking tool.

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Yeah I mean keychain my mistake

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Perhaps Hive should be rebranded to splinterlandschain 🤣

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A success without precedent, the bad thing as you say is that if it is separated from the Hive blockchain, many things would change.

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Not separate, but scale

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I tried the Splinterlands tutorial today, I was impressed with its polish. I think I'd need to play more to determine the game itself.

The key question for Splinterlands, irrespective of bots, is this: Do players play Splinterlands for its own sake or only as a way to make money. The same question has to be asked for Hive. If people are willing to pay for the value they get from something, even if they lose money, that can be sustainable. In which case they are not "losing" money but spending money on entertainment. If everyone has the expectation of profit, that is likely not sustainable (or at least, there is a limit to that).

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I played the game for like two years and in the last year I just hold my cards and rent.
There is defenetly a fun and chalange in the game to win battlez but ofcourse the making money as well. I think overall it is a nice balance between the two.

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The Hive blockchain seems to be handling the transactions smoothly. More then 2M transactions per day is a lot for a blockchain. For comparison BTC is around 200k to 400k transactions, Ethereum is just above 1M. BSC is above 5M, and the one with most transactions Polygon is going for 10M.

Thanks for the handy comparison between other chains, I was surprised to see BSC and Polygon so high.

So obviously the size and types of transactions vary across each chain?

If we do 100x from here (possible!), then is the Hive blockchain still in a position to be able to handle transactions no problem?

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The way the RC system works is transactions will become more expensive and if you dont have enough HP you will not be able to post.

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I guess RC costs would go up to limit transactions if the chain was under strain, just stopping people with lower Hive power from submitting?

I've no idea how scaleable Hive is where Custom Jsons are concerned, i don't believe it's ever been tested?

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Yes in theory that should happen, small accounts will get cut of.
Never been tested before so this might be a nice opportunity :)

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Splintershards is now bigger than Hive in marketcap. It's only Day 1!!! This is what I'm expecting for LEO! I've got high hopes for IDO for Matic DeFi Dapp.

I've been telling games are the way to go. Feeling so good because it turns out all of those stuff I screamed about came true. I'm not alone in this. Those who bet on the games and Dapps on Hive are going to have a real epic time in future :)


!PIZZA

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Yep, its mooning :)
Still we need to wait a bit for things to sette, like a month or two and then compare

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Maybe we'll have to wait even longer. Remember that 1 year ICO of EOS. Price moved a lot during it with lots of tokens entering the market.
!PIZZA

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