Splinterlands (SPS)

What is Splinterlands

Splinterlands is a digital, collectible card game built on blockchain technology. It is similar in concept to games like Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone where you build up a collection of cards, which all have various different stats and abilities, and use them to battle other players in skill-based matches. By using blockchain technology, players can buy, sell, and trade their digital assets freely just as if they were physical cards, and all transactions are recorded publicly and immutably.

In card games like Magic the Gathering, Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh!, you had physical cards which you could trade or sell freely. Once games went digital with titles like Hearthstone, players lost that ability, and the cards were locked into that game and each player's account. Through the use of blockchain technology we can now have the best of both worlds where players can buy, sell and transfer their digital assets freely, just like they can with physical assets.

In addition, blockchain technology introduced the concepts of true digital scarcity and complete transparency. For the first time, digital assets were created that are unable to be copied, or printed at will, and every transaction that takes place is published on a public, immutable ledger that cannot be falsified and that anyone can independently verify.

In the context of Splinterlands, that means that anyone can know exactly how many of each type of card exists, how many will ever exist, view and verify the historical record of each card, and more!