Is DEC About to Rally 70%?

Many people were expecting a crash in DEC when the airdrop ended. They weren't entirely wrong as DEC did momentarily break down below 50% of its "peg".

But it only stayed there for a few hours and now its already up 20% from those levels and climbing.

Did you miss the rally? Not really. DEC is still sitting at $0.59/1000 Its peg price is $1/1000. If it gets back there that means a $0.41 rally.

That's almost 70%!

(This is an inverted chart of DEC. Peg is getting back to 1000. As you can see its currently at almost 1700 but that's down from almost 2000 a few days ago. As you can also see, it's finally broken down from the uptrend that's been unbreakable all year. It retested it and failed. Same with RSI. The chart is saying the move back to peg has already started.)

But how likely is it to get there soon with all this selling pressure from the end of the airdrop?

I think that selling pressure is really over. A few people ran to sell and that did cause a temporary price dip but most of those people were selling because they expected a further dip they could buy back up. It didn't come.

Most DEC holders aren't going to sell their DEC when there's a 70% rally on the horizon. And when it dipped below 50% of the peg that meant a 100% rally was coming and it got bought up in a hurry.

Seriously, watching people try to sell DEC to get a slightly better deal on a 100% coming rally is a lesson in how greed hurts investors.

DEC Pools

Another reason why it didn't sell off the way people expected it would was because the DEVs already announced the new DEC pool rewards would include a solid amount of SPS.

No longer is anyone going to be able to get the same amount of SPS rewards they got int he airdrop but its not about the total amount you get, its about the percentage of the total supply being minted that you get. It's about keeping up with inflation.

The inflation just dropped dramatically but it's still there. ANd the only way to keep up besides buying SPS directly is to be involved in the DEC/SPS LP pools and to keep your SPS staked.

This means, holding DEC is still one of the best ways to get SPS.

If you missed it, the devs said they started calculating rewards for the new pools as soon as the airdrop stopped. They still need to put the new smart contracts in place but when they do, back payments will come in from the time you've been in the pool.

Card packs

Another place all that DEC is going is into card packs. At this price, packs are selling for a 41% discount. Of course that's only if you are actually buying DEC with outside funds just to buy packs. Otherwise it ends up a wash. A pack will always cost 4000 DEC no matter what so if you're just buying from your stash, there's no advantage to buying today.

With that said though, in the last week or so there've been 300k packs sold.

That is 1.2 billion DEC taken out of circulation until the devs decide to spend it back into the economy. For right now I have a feeling they are just soaking it up.

Due to the amount of players buying cards on the secondary market in credits and the fact that the game pays out the seller in DEC, the Splinterlands company ends up being a net buyer of DEC to fill those needs. That means until the secondary market picks up with lots of new money coming in, that DEC will likely not see the market. By then we'll probably have another rally catalyst coming.

DEC inflation is about to drop dramatically

This is the single biggest reason the rally is coming. If Splinterlands stays a popular game with people playing it, DEC will stay in demand but they won't be giving it out anymore.

In a few months, the only way DEC will enter the economy will be liquidity pool rewards and burning SPS.

The rewards from liquidity pools will only be about 1/5 of what's coming right now. So we are about to see an 80% reduction in DEC inflation as the game continues to pick up in popularity.

TO make that more powerful, the places Splinterlands popularity are picking up is with player guilds. And player guilds create in game guilds. And in game guilds upgrade buildings. And upgrading buildings, unlike buying packs, burns DEC.

There's about to be a lot of DEC burned. If I were a major player guild coming in I'd be looking seriously at the price of DEC right now because it would cost 40% less to get in and get those upgrade coming than it will a few months from now if DEC makes that run back to peg.

The Economy

THe last thing I want to look at here is the economy and monetary policy. Since DEC doesn't exist in a vacuum, this is important. The Fed just came out and raised rates the expected .75 points and everything rallied hard.

Why?

Well one is because it was expected. There was no negative surprise. But also its because some of the fed's statements were slightly more dovish than they've been in the past. Many indicators coming out now are showing inflation evening out and that's leading a lot of people to believe the fed might loosening up its grip on the market. This means we could see further recoveries.

Usually what happens in markets like this that most of the market has a bit of a recovery. Then it becomes a stock/crypto pickers market. The standouts get rewarded which everything else flounders. I could see a world where bitcoin hangs out at 30k for a while.

Meanwhile something like Splinterlands, which currently has so much going for it, might wash out the last few sellers and then be free to start its march higher. This would start with DEC heading back to peg. Which again, is a 70% increase from here.

My conclusion?

I think DEC heads back to peg within the next 1-3 months. And while this isn't an article about SPS, I think for the most part SPS will be an equal to even stronger winner. This informed my recent decision to sell out of the Swap.hive/DEC and BEE/DEC LP while building my position in the DEC/SPS pool. If two coins move up together, there's no impermanent loss.

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