No Town Hall or Town Square this week in splinterlands but we did have a new live show with the splinterlands team called 'Around Praetoria'. This show aims to spotlight the extraordinary stories, insights, and contributions of those who breathe life into splinterlands. The first episode delved into splinterland's past, present, and future. Aggroed (one of the splinterlands' co-founders) was present and it was great to gain insight from him. He spoke about the desire to make gaming more engaging and introduce people to cryptocurrency. The vision of splinterlands centers on the power of cryptocurrency to bring about financial freedom, aligning with values of liberty and decentralization. Looking ahead, splinterlands envisions evolving into a multifaceted ecosystem, akin to a Web 3.0 hubspot of gaming, with a focus on storytelling and character-driven narratives.

That aside, we didn't get any mention of when Land 1.5 will be released and September is upon us. Let's hope that the team is busy with the final pieces of the release and it still comes out in September.

Runi Fund

The Runi fund got a considerable boost this past week as I added almost $65 to the Runi Fund. The majority of the earnings came from the Publish0x platform where I finally withdrew $32 of crypto blogging earnings. I am a small-time blogger on the Publish0x platform and it took almost two and half years of stacking earnings. The process of withdrawing and then converting to DEC was long and required me to move funds fromPublish0xto Kucoin to Binance and finally to Hive. I still don't know if the crypto masses will ever get on board to do this.

Source:$DEC Price and Supply

The price of $DEC ($0.775 for 1k DEC) has remained relatively stable over the past week even considering how bearing the crypto market has been the past week. Also, the supply of $DEC continues to decrease, and will be interesting to track this once Land 1.5 is released and whether there is an increase in the decrease of the supply.

Runi Market

Source: Cheapest Runi on Opensea

Contrary to other splinterlands NFT assets, the price of Runi NFTs is very stable with the floor price continuing to range between 0.41 ETH and 0.42 ETH.

Source: Sales Activity for the Past 7 Days on Opensea

In terms of sales activity over the past week, we saw a huge spread exist between sales with the cheapest Runi being sold for 0.35 ETH ($570) and the most expensive being sold for 2.2 ETH ($3352). For this challenge, I am only interested in getting the cheapest Runi possible as I will be staking it to a Land plot and I don't care about certain unique attributes resulting in the Runi NFT fetching a higher price. Regardless, it's good to see that even though we are in a crypto bear market, since I started working on this challenge the Runi market does have some liquidity which is positive to see.

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