Glint & EconomyEarning and spending the realm’s coin, and the Relic system that keeps rare gear rare.

Glint is Skybound’s currency. You start with 250 and earn more from kills, quests and selling. It buys gear, potions, flight mounts, travel scrolls and enhancement attempts. Here’s the full picture.

Earning Glint

• Monster drops. Kills drop Glint “piles” that credit your wallet directly on pickup (never cluttering your bag). Big piles (8,000+) show as rare finds.
• Selling to NPCs. Vendors pay each piece of gear its own sell price, set per item, rare and common alike; a piece you found rather than bought earns 40% of it. Potions and food sell for a quarter of their buy price, and enhancement materials at their listed worth. Soul-bound and quest items sell for 0.
• Quests. Nearly every quest pays Glint on top of XP; the four job trials alone give 2,500 each, and later zone chains pay far more.

Spending Glint

Consumables at a glance

Recovery items are level-banded when they drop; a Lv 1 monster gives Lollipops, not a feast. The ladders:

Premium recovery exists too: Remantis Laccotte (full HP instantly), Refresher Hold (unlimited MP for 60 min) and Vital Drink X (unlimited FP for 60 min).

The Cash Shop & premium currency

The premium currency is Crown, sold from Vesper’s Premium Shop. It stocks convenience and cosmetics: protect/smelting scrolls, the Stat Reset Scroll and Skill Reset Scroll (each hands back every point you have spent in that half of your build), premium recovery, fashion costume boxes, cosmetic masks, flag cloaks, premium flight mounts, the five looter pets, the Ultra Collector, the Activation Scroll (for 1 hour your action slot never tires: every slot fires on every run), the Bag Expansion (24 more bag cells for 30 days) and the two Transy Scrolls (they recut a gendered piece of armour or a costume for the other sex).

Buying Crown

Crown is bought on Solana, from the Buy Crown panel in Vesper’s shop. There is no card and no subscription: you ask for an amount, the shop writes an invoice, you pay it, and the Crown lands.

One Crown is one US cent, so 100 Crown is $1, in every currency. You can pay with:

$SKY, the game’s token

$SKY is Skybound’s own token on Solana. It has a fixed supply, minted once, with no mint authority: nobody can print more of it afterwards, the studio included.

You cannot earn it by playing, with one bounded exception

$SKY is never dropped, never farmed and never emitted. No monster carries it, no quest pays it, and no amount of grinding produces any. Nor is there a way to convert Glint into Crown or into $SKY: the two economies do not meet, and the old Glint-to-Crown exchange was removed rather than capped. The one exception is a chance prize on the Winnowing Belt, paid from a fixed season budget the game already holds and never minted; it has its own switch, and it is bounded on that page.

That is the rule that keeps the game a game. The moment grinding turns into dollars, the reason to play stops being play, and the people who out-earn you are the ones running scripts overnight. Glint buys from players and from shops, and that is all Glint ever does.

What it is actually for

Skypass

Skypass is a 30-day pass, bought with Crown from Vesper’s shop for 999 Crown. Buying another while one is still live extends it rather than replacing it, so renewing early never costs you the days you already paid for. You are always asked to confirm first, and told the date the pass will run until, so a second press can never buy another month without you knowing.

A Skypass will not make you hit harder, level faster or find better loot. Most of it is room to trade, room to carry and a hand off your potion keys. The two exceptions are worn, and both leave when the pass does:

The Ascension fee is not on that list, and it is not a perk. There is no Ascension fee for anybody now, with a pass or without one, so there is nothing left for a pass to waive. See Ascension below.

Neither the Signet nor the Eclipse Regalia costume can be bought, traded, listed, vendored, dropped, binned or ascended, and both are taken back the moment your pass ends, wherever you are keeping them. That is the whole of why a pass may carry them at all: what you buy is thirty days of wearing one, not the item.

Your expiry is shown in the panel, counting down in hours on the last day.

Earning Crown

There are two ways to earn Crown without buying it. The first is to find what is broken. File a report in-game; if it is confirmed, Crown is recorded at your name and then released to spend. The Account window shows what is still held and what has already been released. The Crown held through the Closed Betas was released at Open Beta.

The other way is to wear the Skybound server tag in our Discord. Run /tag join in the server once, and each day Carlo sees the tag on you earns 10 Crown, held the same way. Your Discord account must be at least 30 days old and you must have been in the server for 7 days. Connect Discord in the Account window so the days reach your character; days before you connect still count.

Two things worth knowing about how it is held. It lives in its own ledger rather than as a number on your account, so not even a world reset could clear it. And each report earns at most one award, so the first person to report an issue is the one it pays.

Relics: why rare gear is truly rare

Rare, Unique and Legendary equipment is Relic-grade. When one drops, the game decides whether it mints as a tradeable Relic or a bound (untradeable) copy: through three gates:

The point: a tradeable rare is a scarce, earned thing, so the market stays meaningful. You always get and can use the gear you find; only its tradeable version is rationed.

Ascension: taking an item out of the game

Ascending an item takes it out of the Glint economy for good and makes it something you can sell to another player for Crown on the Ascended market. Ascending is free: there is no Ascension fee. It needs a signed-in account, not a traveler (guest) login, and it does not need a wallet.

It is a one-way door. An ascended item can no longer be sold at a stall, traded or vendored for Glint; it can still be worn, used and upgraded like any other.

What can go, and what never can

It costs nothing

There is no Ascension fee, for anybody, however many items you ascend. There used to be a weekly ladder that climbed with each item; it is gone, and nothing replaced it at the door.

The reason it can be free is that ascending creates no NFT. The asset is minted when somebody actually buys your item, straight into their wallet, so an item you ascend and never sell costs nobody anything. The fee was paying for a mint that no longer happens when you ascend.

What still holds you back is not a price: Uncommon and above only, consumables never, and one item, once, ever. So the ceiling is how much good gear you can actually find.

And there is a floor on what you may ask for it. The least any item can be listed for on the Ascended market is 100 Crown, about $1. That is the brake that replaced the fee: ascending is free, but nothing goes on the shelf for a penny.

A Skypass no longer changes any of this, because there is nothing left to waive. What it does buy, a longer stall among them, is listed under Skypass above.

The Ascended market

Ascended items are bought and sold on the Ascended Market, a window inside the game. The same shelf can be browsed at marketplace.skyboundmmo.com, but a purchase is made from the window in the game, because that is where your Crown is.

It is priced and paid in Crown

Every listing is priced and paid in Crown, in whole numbers, and Crown is always worth the same, so a mask you listed on Monday still says what you meant on Friday. The buyer pays with the Crown on their account. There is no quote to race, no token to hold and no network fee to pay.