gm Degens: Splinterlands Turns 8, Gods Unchained Wakes Adusa, Ronin's Clock Ticks

Eight years. That's ancient by crypto-gaming standards, and Splinterlands is still shipping. According to Splinterlands' own August 2026 release notes, the 8th-anniversary update went live August 4, with the anniversary sale itself opening August 8. Two new Neutral Dragonkin promo cards dropped for a 30-day window: Tenrai, an 8-mana Epic at $0.88 a copy, and Suiko, the Legendary at $8.88. The studio's anniversary post on Hive has the full breakdown, payable in Credits, USDC, or DEC.

Worth buying? Honestly, depends how much you already play. If you're on the fence, our take on whether Splinterlands is still worth it in 2026 covers that better than any single card price can.

There was housekeeping too. Per EGamers.io's August 5 patch recap, a new Junior Varsity ruleset caps summons at 6 mana (42-mana match cap), alongside a few ability fixes and a heads-up that the Escalation pack sale is closing soon. Nothing flashy. Just the steady maintenance that keeps a game alive at year eight.

Thinner week for Gods Unchained, not gonna pretend otherwise. The one real story: Adusa is back. Gods Unchained's own portal blog post confirms the Adusa-themed event, "The Scorching Trial," kicked off August 4. You collect entry tickets (max 4 per player) for a shot at a one-off Adusa Mythic Variant card carrying a 25x Daily Play and Earn multiplier. Only Whale Pass holders are eligible, and the winner draw happens after the next Battle Pass season wraps, roughly early October.

That's the whole of it for GU this week. Want the bigger picture instead? Our Gods Unchained review and the Splinterlands vs Gods Unchained breakdown both still hold up.

This is the one to actually pay attention to. Ronin's official blog set the cutover from Ronin Waypoint to the new Ronin Stash wallet for September 16, 2026. Miss it and anything left in a Waypoint wallet is gone, permanently. And as EGamers.io reported on August 1 (updated August 6), Sky Mavis just shipped the migration tool for Lunacian badges and bonded AXS, converting bAXS to AXS at 1:1. If you've got assets sitting in Waypoint, move them now. Don't be the person posting screenshots in October asking where the badges went. Background on why Ronin makes people twitchy lives in our Ronin bridge hack explainer.

Price-wise (treat this as a snapshot, not gospel), AXS was trading near $0.83 on July 31, 2026 and testing a support zone that had previously preceded a 274% rally, per CoinGabbar's analysis. Could break either way, probably. If Axie's arc has you eyeing the exits, we keep a running list of Axie Infinity alternatives.

Amid all the anniversary sales and migration deadlines, here's a quieter one worth a line. Stellarch, a provably-fair browser TCG on Hive (same chain family as Splinterlands), is in closed alpha and taking waitlist signups. The idea is simple: every match resolves from a seed, so you can verify the result yourself instead of trusting the house. Free to start too, no card purchase and no wallet needed for your first match. If that's your kind of thing, get on the waitlist. Early days, but the fairness angle is real.

Quietish week overall, but not empty. Splinterlands celebrated a birthday and kept patching, Gods Unchained ran its Adusa event, and Ronin set a hard deadline some folks are going to miss. If you hold Waypoint assets, that last one is your homework for the week. See you next digest.