Battles, Delegations, Market maker and more

Dragon Battles.

Four Battles this week

Ashflare VS Stonegale
Emberfang VS Cinderclaw
Codbane VS Fitatic
Emberlash VS Gromphus

Who were the winners? The details are at the bottom but the short version:
Stonegale, Cinderclaw, Fitatic, and Gromphus were this weeks winners and they will be battling next week.

Cheer on of those combatants on next week for a chance at some GLD coins

Thanks to @gwajnberg for cheering on @emberlash.gld and @gromphus.gld

SIDE NOTE: To cheer send !SPORTS tokens to your favorite dragon and they will be returned after the battles are over.

As no-one else cheered on any other dragons that makes him the winner. While it may seem like a waste to reward only one person uncontested I still think its a win because it shows that my bot is working and if others join, well, I know I can easily see which dragon got supported.

Thank you @gwanjberg. Maybe in time others will join you. Until then enjoy your 100 GLD prize. And your dragon

Delegation Dragons

I won't be posting the Delegation Dragons stats this week. Why not? Mostly because I'm reworking them. @ashflare.gld and @dlmmqb are unfairly lumped in with delegations to other communities that work in a different way. Poor @cinderclaw.gld got stuck with the actifit curator which has brutally awful rewards. @diyhub runs like clockwork and @amazingdrinks isn't run by a bot so its more variable.

How am I reworking them? I want to make a larger stable of accounts watching more communities but with less HP being sent out. It just takes time to make up the delegation accounts :) I added @scifimultiverse this week and will be adding @ocdb later today with a bunch more to come so it will be a much more diverse list and hopefully more interesting to look at.

Curation Dragons

The information I got from the curation dragons?

@gromphus.gld was following a very small trail but it was active. 7.47%

@emberlash.gld and codbane.gld were following busy trails of @ocdb and @leo.voter so they have nice rewards at 8.74 and 9.01%. But that's calculating results based on 20 days rewards over 24 days. @fitatic.gld at 3.23% ... its a cold curation trail. Not worth following.

But the lesson learned from this forray? The difference between curations is small provided the accounts are curating regularly and staying at about 80% voting power makes more difference than which posts got curated.

Moving forward? I'll try to find a way to watch curation results from @hiveabbyftp (the Great Little Dragons curator) and use it as a benchmark to measure delegation rewards against.

Side project -- Once I see how profitable curation is I'll likely start accepting delegations from Hive users and return a hefty percentage back to them in GLD tokens.

Market Maker

I'm really quite impressed with how well the market maker account is working for the GLD token. Now the GLD token has always had a liquidity pool with Tribaldex so no-one ever got stuck with the token. However, if you wanted to sell on hive-engine? That looked like a ghost town.

So... Enter the market bot @merchantsguild. Twice a day it places buy and sell orders based on the price of HIVE. Quick version: The market maker buys GLD at a value of 95 GLD to 1 HBD and sells GLD at a value of 105 GLD to 1 HBD. The idea being that if HIVE goes down I'll buy more HIVE and if it goes up I'll sell more. When I look at the market? The coin is being moved AND there are lots of open orders both on the buy and sell side. Horray!

Weekly Battles

And just for fun ...

This weeks Combatants:

Round 1:

@ashflare.gld the Fire/Air Dragon VS @stonegale.gld the Earth/Air Dragon.
Battleground: A full Earth Biome.

Ashflare was at a disadvantage from the start. Never got it's footings and lost without ever taking a match. 3-0 For @stonegale.gld

Round 2:

@emberfang.gld Fire/Earth VS @cinderclaw Earth/Fire -- Biome : Fire/Air
Both have fire in their veins but emberfang is usually a stronger fire combatant. Not this time though, the fire never lit up and Cinderclaw win 3-0

Round 3 :

@codbane.gld the earth dragon VS @fitatic.gld the fire dragon -- Biome : Fire/Fire
This was never really a contest. Fighting a Fire dragon on home turf? fitatic.gld destroyed @codbane.gld 3-0

Round 4 :

The final round was between @emberlash.gld and gromphus.gld. An Air/Fire dragon VS and Air/Earth dragon. Biome: Fire/Air.
Honestly I thought emberlash had this one but the results were a split decision. @gromphus.gld over @emberlash.gld in 2 matches to 1

Battle screen shots

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This weeks winner and update. | Ecency