This post is meant to share a bit more data on DEC, the main splinterlands game token. It is mostly meant for those who are interested in the development of DEC circulation. A very short overview, the DAO sells DEC for currency used to buy credits (mostly USD), effectively putting it into circulation. At the same time DEC is burned through various activities in and outside the game.

To sell DEC for credit currency, the DAO uses the credits.for.dec account which has been charged with 1 billion DEC on 30/4. This 1 billion DEC resembled about half of the DAOs DEC without and a third of its DEC with reserves calculated in.

date balance delta 2026-04-30 987.074k - 2026-05-01 981.176k -5.898k 2026-05-02 973.614k -7.562k 2026-05-03 965.622k -7.992k 2026-05-04 959.423k -6.198k 2026-05-05 952.675k -6.749k 2026-05-06 945.385k -7.290k 2026-05-07 937.720k -7.665k 2026-05-08 925.410k -12.310k 2026-05-09 910.090k -15.321k 2026-05-10 892.705k -17.384k 2026-05-11 885.204k -7.502k 2026-05-12 879.615k -5.589k 2026-05-13 871.934k -7.681k 2026-05-14 864.859k -7.075k 2026-05-15 853.971k -10.889k 2026-05-16 843.442k -10.528k 2026-05-17 836.780k -6.663k

This means in the 17 days since the start of the credits.for.dec account about 163m DEC was sold, which is about 8.8m a day. This is the average DEC the DAO would need daily to keep circulation stable.

The second table presented here is the DEC burn recorded from the start of 2026. The reason for the 2026 cutoff is, that going back further takes a lot of time to process the chain data and it is largely irrelevant how much DEC was burned in for example 2022.

account total_since_2026_01_01 avg_daily LP_FEES 21.811k 159k $GUILD_STORE 267k 2k $MARKET_LIST_FEE 0 0 $ENERGY 10.734k 78k $WILD_PASS 31.660k 231k $UNBIND_ACCOUNT 13.405k 125k $UNBIND_BURN 3.356k 24k $RANKED_PASS 1.213k 9k $SHOP 16.390k 120k $MARKET_BURN_FEE 39.039k 285k $RENTAL_BURN_FEE 0 0 $TOKEN_RENTAL_FEE 25k 0 $TOKEN_RENTAL_BURN_FEE 523k 4k $LAND_GRAIN_AUTOPURCHASE 0 0 $LAND_TC_DECBURN 516k 4k $LAND_POWER_CORE_PURCHASE 5.685k 41k $LAND_GRAIN_PURCHASE 0 0 TOTAL 144.625k 1.083k The average total daily burn is: 1.083.233,193935.

So the total burns since the start of the year were 144m which comes down to about 1m DEC a day. This means that the daily burns equal to about 12.3% of the total DEC outflow, or in other words, if the DAO wouldn't burn it, 12.3% of its DEC operational costs could be covered by these fees alone.

With regard to the DAOs daily obligations, which comes 5500 USD per day or, at course of 0.0004 for DEC, 13.75m DEC the burn would equate to 7.87%. In other words, the DAO could cover 7,87% of its daily costs by simply not burning the fees.

Please note that some burn accounts currently can't be properly read through the splinterlands API and are therefore 0. This means that the totals are likely a bit higher, but the main positions are covered.