As I wrote in another post, over the past few months my activity on Hive has decreased, but only as far as publishing content is concerned.

For the rest, in fact, I have continued working on my various small projects and trying to manage my tokens and NFTs as best as possible.

Obviously, this means that I haven't lost sight of Splinterlands, where, although I haven't played a game in years by now, I still own around forty dollars' worth of cards and around a hundred dollars between SPS and DEC...

... at least until today!

After some careful and well-thought-out analysis — which will obviously turn out to be a colossal mistake, like all my decisions in this sector 🤣 — I decided to sell all the DEC I had accumulated — obtained mainly through renting and selling my cards — to buy SPS.

Why?

There are two reasons that led me to do it, although one is actually counterbalanced by a reason not to do it... so in reality, there is only one real reason.

Let's start with the first reason:

• in the best-case scenario, DEC can currently double in value, while SPS, in theory, can increase much more.

DEC is in fact roughly halfway to its peg, and the flywheel mechanism makes it difficult to imagine it going beyond that.

However, the opposite is also true: in the event of a decrease in value, DEC would probably be better able to preserve its value, since on the Splinterlands website it can still always be used for various purchases as if it were at its peg value.

In short, this reason alone wasn't enough to make a decision...

... and that's why we move on to the second one!

Profit

Since I unstaked my SPS and moved both it and DEC out of Hive-Engine, I have been looking for cross-chain arbitrage opportunities in an attempt to make some profit while also increasing the amount of SPS and DEC I own.

Over time, I managed to achieve both goals, earning much more than I would have by simply keeping my SPS staked.

In addition to adding a few hundred SPS and a few thousand DEC to my portfolio, I was able to accumulate profits in USDC, which I summarized in this chart using a script:

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DETAIL FOR EACH UPLOADED FILE
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📄 FILE: BSC.csv
Period covered: 2026-03-09 21:13:48 to 2026-10-07 05:47:13
[SPS ⇄ USDC] In: 1,738.539380 | Out: 1,309.799635 | Net: 428.739745 USDC
[DEC ⇄ USDC] In: 257.453299 | Out: 329.075532 | Net: -71.622233 USDC
TOTAL FILE PROFIT: 357.117512 USDC

📄 FILE: Ethereum.csv
Period covered: 2026-03-26 22:47:35 to 2026-10-07 05:44:11
[SPS ⇄ USDC] In: 0.000000 | Out: 49.808337 | Net: -49.808337 USDC
[DEC ⇄ USDC] In: 338.541701 | Out: 251.497434 | Net: 87.044267 USDC
TOTAL FILE PROFIT: 37.235930 USDC

📄 FILE: Base.csv
Period covered: 2026-03-09 21:15:49 to 2026-10-03 15:01:05
[SPS ⇄ USDC] In: 1,367.538031 | Out: 1,726.082541 | Net: -358.544510 USDC
[DEC ⇄ USDC] In: 0.000000 | Out: 0.000000 | Net: 0.000000 USDC
TOTAL FILE PROFIT: -358.544510 USDC

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COMBINED GENERAL SUMMARY (TOTAL OF ALL FILES)

[TOTAL SPS ⇄ USDC SWAPS]
USDC Received (Overall SPS Sales): 3,106.077411 USDC
USDC Spent (Overall SPS Purchases): 3,085.690513 USDC
Overall Net SPS Profit: 20.386898 USDC
Period: from 2026-03-09 to 2026-10-03 (207 days elapsed)

[TOTAL DEC ⇄ USDC SWAPS]
USDC Received (Overall DEC Sales): 595.995000 USDC
USDC Spent (Overall DEC Purchases): 580.572966 USDC
Overall Net DEC Profit: 15.422034 USDC
Period: from 2026-03-26 to 2026-10-07 (194 days elapsed)

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TOTAL OVERALL NET PROFIT: 35.808932 USDC

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SPS > DEC

What emerges from these figures is not only that in less than 7 months I achieved a 35% return — to which the extra SPS and DEC earned should also be added — but also that 20% of this gain can be attributed to SPS, while only 15% came from DEC.

SPS therefore proved to be 33% more profitable than DEC.

This is what led me to make today's decision, convincing me to exchange all my DEC for SPS.

25k SPS

I therefore swapped almost 105k DEC for 13k SPS on BSC.

These SPS are thus added to the approximately 12k I already held on Base...

... bringing the total to — almost — 25k SPS!

Not a bad milestone at all, which also brings me closer with this token to my long-term goal: 100,000 SPS.

I now have around 33k HIVE and 25k SPS, not bad numbers at all, and I aim to increase them further over the coming months and years.

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