Are you suggesting an interest bearing account for Hive (similar to what has been previously proposed for HBD)? It's certainly possible to implement, although it's non-trivial and would be a new source of inflation, of course.
But on a macroeconomic level, I'm not sure what the justification would be though, unless it's just a way to get Hive out of circulation in order to increase scarcity. Generally, I'm not in favor of such mechanisms.
At the moment, almost 2/3rds of the Hive is liquid, but even though it can't be used for much out there, it seems that powering up isn't attractive enough. I suspect that it is likely that a fair bit of it is being sold in order to get into the trading pools on eth and BSC etc, since the ROI is so high. Wouldn't it make sense to add capabilities for HIVE to be used, to give more reason for people to buy off exchanges?
I don't really know what the real interest level in such things are. Yield chasing definitely does seem to be a thing right now, but it's not something I'm keen to work on, I'd rather work on other things that I think can provide more real world utility. But I'm not opposed to having such functionality on the chain, if someone wants to implement it (it's probably not that hard to do).
Yeah, I understand that. I am hoping there are some more use case coming. It might be an interesting way to back SMTs in some way though. I think that the Leo Finance team might be working on something for it on CUB, but I think that it would be useful to have more native functionality and gateways.