Howdy Splintripetal Force! It's time for another monthly update. The pace we're moving at with both the DAO and company this year has been breakneck and it only recently dawned on me that we're already heading into October. Let's go over the September highlights and touch on a few things coming next month!
I'm still pretty heavily monitoring the bridges and so far things have gone pretty smoothly. We've had to setup a premium API for the EVM chains to prevent rate limiting and there was one small hiccup with the host that led to a few hours of down time, but all in all I'd say things have gone extremely well so far. So well there may even be another related announcement coming soon (😉).
In the background, we're also working towards the next validator release which will take care of the post launch cleanup plan that we voted on recently. This is a necessary step to hopefully get CMC to start recognizing native SPS so that we can finally have real data on the coin tracking sites. It seems like every time we get close there's something else that needs to be done, but I'm hopeful that this release will have us on solid ground to move forward and that it doesn't take them the rest of my natural born life to get them to actually update the data.
One of the bigger projects I had going on this month was working on a new token distribution strategy. This is something I wanted to work on last year but it didn't appear that we had the appetite for it back then. Well necessity is the mother of innovation or something like that. We now have a plan in place that ensures reward continuity for the next three years, and while nothing is ever unanimous with the DAO, the support for this plan was quite strong.
Speaking of quite strong support, I'm grateful to everyone that voted for my recent contract adjustment and renewal. This can be a very intense job at the best of times and knowing that the vast majority of the community supports the work I'm doing is quite humbling and reassuring to me that we're on the right course. So thank you for the support.
I have decided to take my second week of vacation for this year to go to HIVEfest and represent Splinterlands and the DAO. Perhaps it's more of a working vacation, but that's fine with me. I love what I do and I feel it's important we have representation for Splinterlands and our DAO. Our DAO is a HIVE whale now after all. This means that I'll be out of office from October 14th to October 20th.
Thanks for your time and consideration everyone. I hope you're as excited as I am for the future of the DAO and Splinterlands right now. It feels like everything is lining up and our future potential is massive. I even finally managed to hit a million SPS staked! Until next time...
This month we ran 3 DAO Sponsored proposals: CGRF Sponsorship Proposal - September 2025 Batch Adjust Token Distribution Strategy Allocate Packs for New Player Onboarding Campaign
Requesting the SPS DAO to release the monthly payment of 5000 USD to Ethereum wallet: 0x16CABD382b8B482C4Eaef344C4b438a70FadedBE