Good morning friends,
Today we are going to take a quick look at my Holozing Rewards and see which investment avenue had the best return!
Currently, there are FOUR ways to earn a return for an investment into #Holozing - which is the upcoming creature collector & battler game for Hive!
So what are these four ways of earning $ZING Tokens???
Alpha Vials
Staking Rewards
Liquidity Pool
Hive Delegation
Let us take a look at and compare the returns from these different investments over the past 10 days... so we can see where to put the next investment!
Bee BalancedRemember - my goal for this "experiment" is to show that one can create useful content, reinvest the earnings into both Hive & Hive Assets to grow organically in both, while maintaining a KE of 2 or less... Speaking of which... lets check my KE via @beaker007 tool:
Still looking good there!! Ok, now we shall move on to the next step of this post - checking on "What" was invested... "Where" it was invested... and "How" much of a Return have I earned over the last 10 Days!
Ok, this may be the easiest one to calculate... I used my Post Rewards from one of my earlier articles to buy an Alpha Vial... ok I had like 19.89 HBD... so I chipped in a dime... but whatever!!
Investment: Alpha Vial (1)
Cost: $20 HBD
10 Day Alpha Vial Rewards: 581.692 $ZING Tokens!
Reward Per Day: 58.17 $ZING = .145 $HIVE = $.0495 HBD...
Days to reach 100% ROI = 404 Days or... an Alpha Vial has a 90% ROI?!?!?
I am halfway tempted to just stop typing and delete this article... be selfish... and buy more Alpha Vials...
But no!! I am doing this to "Bee Helpful"... not to "Bee Selfish"... that's the point of Hive, right?!? 90% ROI... Holy cow... But let us continue to see what the other Returns were...
The first thing I did when I wanted to start this experiment was to buy 10,000 $ZING Token off of Tribaldex and stake them! That was my very first article and I used those rewards to buy the Alpha Vial!
Lets check in on the $ZING Staking Rewards, although these tend to be the lowest return, they often have additional benefits!
$ZING Staked: 10,000 Invested + Reward Claims
Cost: 26 Hive
$ZING 10 Day Staking Rewards: 17.159 $ZING
Rewards Per Day: 1.71 $ZING or .0044 $HIVE or $.0015 $HBD
Days to 100% ROI: 5,848 to 100% ROI or 6.25% ROI
This sounds about right - not a huge ROI but there are typically other benefits to staking Tokens like these... currently though, I don't think there are... so I will probably save my "Post Rewards" to buy another Alpha Vial... but lets check the last Investment... The $HIVE:$ZING Liquidity Pool!
One of the things that caught my eye last time was the ~50% APR on the Liquidity Pool! @libertycrypto27 wrote a great post and I decided to check that out too! I used some Post Rewards and threw in some of my own $HIVE to start investing in the Liquidity Pool with 10,000 $ZING and the equal amount of $HIVE.
It's been 10 Days since then... so lets go see what the Rewards look like compared to the Alpha Vial, Staking and Hive Delegation Rewards!
For my 10,000 $ZING and my 26 $HIVE that I put into the LP, I am receiving a small variance each day but it is currently averaging out to about 27 $ZING per day, as well as about 4k of a token called $BIT?
$BIT doesn't currently have any value on Tribaldex that I can see... but maybe one day? I dunno... anyways...
27 $ZING Per Day = .07 $HIVE = $.0024 $HBD
Days to 100% ROI = 741 or 49% ROI! Daaaaaang that's not bad!!
Lets check our final $ZING Investment... the Hive Delegation!!
First, let me clarify something about this investment... This doesn't "cost" anything in the traditional sense... but it does come with a couple forms of "Opportunity Cost" and I'll elaborate on that if this is you now:
So, Hive Power or HP is what you receive when you take $HIVE and "Stake It". Hive calls this "Powering Up" and Unstaking is "Powering Down". If that is still confusing...
Staking is the process of LOCKING an Asset where it can't be spent, used, etc... Hive is a bit unique because of the way that the Daily Hive Pool assigns Rewards... but that's another topic...
What you need to understand is that: The more Hive you Stake or "Power Up"... The greater the Reward that is assigned when you Upvote/Downvote/Etc on things...
The more HP you have... the more you GIVE when you Upvote... but also the more you GET - remember... when YOU Upvote something... YOU will receive 50% of those Rewards when it pays out!!!
So... back to the point... For some reason, I decided to delegate a very strange number... I delegated 507.916 of my HP to @zingtoken so they can upvote and curate projects related to #Holozing!! This is great because it helps them earn more Rewards for the project... but it's doubly great because they are GIVING more Rewards with each Upvote/Curation!!
So my "cost" on this is $0.00... technically... I mean it was mine and it still is mine... I didn't spend it... I lent it to them to help their project out 🐝
In return, I get some $ZING for the help! So what "cost" could I be referring to?
Well... if I kept the HP, instead of Delegating it... I would be giving/earning that Hive for each Upvote I did... instead of earning $HIVE though... I earn $ZING...
So while it doesn't "cost" me anything, technically... I am choosing to receive my Rewards for the HP I lent them in $ZING, rather than earning the $HIVE I would have... that's my "opportunity cost".
507.916 $HIVE @ .$341 USD = $173.20 at current prices... and for letting them borrow that much HP for 10 Days, I received...
$ZING 10 Day Delegation Rewards: 413.292 $ZING
$ZING Rewards Per Day: 41.32 $ZING = .107 $HIVE = .0364 $HBD
Days to 100% ROI: 4,746 Days or 7.7% ROI... WITH $0 COST...
This is not the most lucrative way to earn $ZING... but it is most certainly one of the BEST ways to earn it without much exposure - especially if you are a big $HIVE Supporter!!
Instead of "Buying" $ZING... you simply lend them some of your Hive Power... and earn roughly 7.5% of that in $ZING, annually!! That's a pretty hefty Reward for extremely little Risk!!
So there ya go!! A fairly comprehensive look at the ways to EARN $ZING via Investments!! I hope this helps show you the various opportunities and remember... This is NOT Financial Advice - I am just showing you what I have earned so far, giving you some data and what you choose to do with that... is 100% up to you!!
Best of luck to everyone, here's to an awesome 2025!!
That's all I have for you today folks!! Thank you for reading and I would LOVE for you to join me in game!!
I believe #web3gaming and #play2earn is the future of gaming and it will offer many opportunities for people to earn rewards - whether Player or Investor!!
If you're interested in the future of gaming, it's worth checking out! Here are some of the games I play and invest in, below!
You can sign up for Holozing here: Holozing
You can sign up Splinterlands here: Splinterlands
Cheers 🍻,
- CaptainDingus
#Holozing #Splinterlands #Soulkeep #Hive #play2earn #web3 #NFTGaming #Rebellion #Conflicts #TowerDefense
FYI: That BIT token that's added as LP rewards isn't affiliated with us, it's more likely to be created for nefarious use than any legitimate usage. I.e. they probably add it as rewards and send it out to people at random in hopes they'll buy some up and I expect they own all of the tokens and just hope someone buys into it so they can get some hive from it. So fair warning there, we can't remove rewards/tokens from the LP for some reason so this allows people to add whatever.
Also some additional info on HP delegations, your HP in and of itself also inflates yearly at a ~3%, this does however not go to who you delegate but remain with you. You may notice this if you for instance delegate exactly 100k and a few days later you notice your delegation is now higher, such as my own for instance where I did exactly that:
What you do forfeit however is the ~8.5% APR from curation rewards, this goes instead to @zingtoken which is earning approximately 4000 Hive per week from its 2.4m HP delegation. May sound like a very large number but for a project of this size ~$1.5k a week is not that much, but with vials it's adding up nicely and based on how that goes over time we may adjust zing distribution even more compared to the current distribution under "New":
Thank you for the clarity on that!
That explains the 7.186 extra HP lol
I couldn't remember what the ROI was for curation - 8.5%... again thank you!
That was the "cost" I was referring to 😊
By delegating the HP to @zingtoken you exchange the $HIVE Rewards you would get for using that 500HP on the posts you upvote... but in exchange, are getting paid in $ZING for letting the account curate $ZING Projects!
I love that 😊
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