I've recently been working on onboarding new players into @splinterlands, and one question I've gotten several times is "how to I bring DEC into the game?". There are many ways, but I'd like to share a method I recently started using which I think may be the easiest: via Hive Keychain. In this article I'll explain the exact steps, one by one.
1. Install Hive Keychain
To play Splinterlands, I think it's imperative to set up Hive Keychain. The Support team has a great article detailing exactly how to do that, so I won't repeat it here: https://support.splinterlands.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412500061588-Hive-Keychain-Installation-and-Usage.
2. Buy Hive and send it to your Hive wallet.
Hive is available on many Tier 1 and Tier 2 exchanges, including Binance, Upbit, Bitget, HTX, and can generally be fairly easily acquired.
After you do so, you can easily send it to yourself by simply putting in your username when sending it (e.g. in my case, "bravetofu"). No memo required.
This may feel foreign to those coming from most other big blockchains who expect addresses to look like 0xJk8Lb3... etc. But on Hive, addresses are human-readable names. Just another nice UX benefit of Hive.
You'll receive the Hive shortly (Hive has very fast transaction times) and will see it in your Keychain wallet.
3. Swap Within Keychain
Inside the Keychain wallet, you can directly do a swap to DEC. Simply press the "Swap" button.
Then select Hive as the currency on the top (that you're using to buy the DEC) and DEC as the currency on the bottom (that's what you're buying). Then press swap.
4. Find your DEC in Hive-Engine
Now, go to Hive Engine (personally I use https://tribaldex.com/) and log in with Keychain, then go to your wallet (i.e. https://tribaldex.com/wallet). Within a few seconds, you'll find your DEC there.
5. Transfer the DEC in-game
Now, go to Splinterlands and click on the DEC tab at the top, then on "Transfer".
Next, select "From: Hive Engine" and "To: In Game", and put in the quantity you want to transfer.
Click Transfer and approve the transaction with Keychain and within a few seconds your DEC will pop into the game and be usable in the various marketplaces (including of course PeakMonsters, my personal choice for all my buying/selling/renting activity in Splinterlands).
I hope this tutorial was useful. And btw while you're doing this, consider holding on to a little Hive along the way and powering that up in your Hive wallet :)
Vonak!
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Good article and well explained for noobs. You can also skip the exchange steps if they are very new to crypto and don't have accounts on binance ect.... by buying hive directly in keychain.
Good to know, thanks @niallon11!
How are the rates when using Transak? Do they compare to what you'd find on exchanges?
About the same if your using a card to get fiat onto the exchange.
I think it's cheaper on the exchange if can do a bank transfer directly onto the cex.
Awesome, thanks again. Sounds like that's a good option for anyone who wants to save a step or doesn't have access to those exchanges.
The exchanges use the same system to process cards as keychain so if people don't already have crypto in the game it's probably an easy way to do it.
Hope those new players are coming on well.
Good guide and Nice Hive power ups today!
Thanks! I'm definitely starting to dig into Hive more :) Took me long enough!
Hive keychain is very useful indeed.
I'll have to check this out. It's not only useful for new players but also for older players.
Yep, I just recently started doing this. Previously was always going via Binance Smart Chain & Metamask, which is kind of a pain. There might be more liquidity there so I may still do it occasionally, but this will now be my go-to most of the time.
Great guide! 👍 I was thinking that you still needed to deposit the Dec into hive-engine / tribaldex wallet but apparently not 🙂
Can't have enough of these articles, experienced people can also learn because once we're used to do something a certain way, we don't look any further but there might be better ways.
Yeah I agree. And things move fast, so it's worth revisiting even the things you think you already know.
Sadly, this is not true for United Stated based players. We cannot trade for spot Hive on any US based centralized exchanges. It makes Step 1 infinitely harder to accomplish. Of course, once we have Hive, things become much easier to swap for.
This. I just checked binance and they still do not allow fiat deposits. We used to be able to, though!
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Binance or Binance USA version?
Binance has HIVE, however I don't know about Binance.US.
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This came to me at the right time, because I decided to buy some Hive after dip. I had a method to do this, but that seems easier to me. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing! - @azircon
This is a very newbie-helpful guide. Clear and concise. Thanks !BBH
Been playing since 2021 and I'm still learning new things!
Detailed and easy to follow steps. Very helpful especially for players new to the environment!
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