This is the #96th edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.
Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:
Hive
- Inleo
- Value Plan
- PeakD
- WorldMapPin
- Waivio
- Splinterlands
- Project Diary
- Interview
- SpendHBD
Crypto
- US Elections
Week on Hive
14 of 18 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
INLEO Threads v2 and Pursue of Onboarding Active Communities
Inleo has recently finished a major upgrade of Threads, particularly focused on the backend, streamlining some parts of the interface, like the Profile page and different feeds.
This is in preparation of expected fruits of their pushes to onboard bigger and bigger communities, highly engaged and active.
The push already started by onboarding one meme community a week until the year end and possibly beyond. In the recent AMA, Khal mentioned it is recognizable the change in the activity on Threads already, with many new and active accounts coming from the onboarded communities, rather than the established LEO holders. Listening to this, I did check Threads, and indeed, there are quite a few newer accounts active over there.
I'd be interested to know how many new accounts Inleo onboarded in November, to have a better estimate on what impact this will have.
Besides the meme coin communities onboarding plans (and execution!), Inleo is well underway of putting into practice their cooperation with Dash, and they hope that will bring another influx of new users.
We certainly need more long term users on Hive. The bull market is obviously a good time to bring them on. The bear market will be a test to see how many will stick around, and to see who starts hopping on and researching more projects from Hive.
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Value Plan Asks For Feedback
I'm sure @valueplan, its funding from the DHF, and their way of analyzing, funding and tracking various smaller or bigger projects in a streamlined manner via a small management team instead of a DHF proposal for each project is relatively well known by everyone who has been on Hive for a while. Maybe not the internal details, but enough to have an idea about how this goes, at least theoretically.
I like their recent post where they ask for feedback regarding what should be the strategy put in practice by Value Plan in 2025. Hopefully, some good feedback will be provided, otherwise we should not complain in 2025 if things don't go according to our expectations regarding to where the funding goes or how much.
They also mention at the beginning what were the categories of objectives they followed with the projects that have been funded, and gave a couple of examples.
Since we are here, one of the receivers of funding from Value Plan, @victor30, published not one, but two posts about his montainbike racing this week.
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
PeakD Updates
PeakD started to test Google Adsense ads on their platform. Mainly for non-logged in viewers, but also for users who allow ads from their settings. As they mention in their post, this is a test, to give them some information, likely regarding the revenue that can be generated and the stability/performance impact on the website.
Some more work on badges too.
They also have a promotion going on for people publishing using Peak Vault.
WorldMapPin Started Rewarding Delegators
HP delegators to WorldMapPin receive 80% of the curation rewards back as HP (not liquid HIVE!). The remaining 20% will be used to increase the project's account, to be able to incentivize more community authors with bigger upvotes.
Note that a minimum delegation of 50 HP is needed, or you won't receive rewards.
Waivio Created an Easy Way to Add Businesses to Maps on Social Sites
They describe the process in this post, with a functional website example, as usually.
Games
Splinterlands News
Development for Land progresses nicely, and it's nice to observe @cryptomancer's weekly updates in discord, however in a channel available only to landowners who own 50+ plots of land, from what I read. I have seen them in discord, but if you're not one of the lucky landlords, someone seems to have made a mission from posting these updates in the open for everyone to see. This is one of their posts.
The new Auction House started with a bang, as expected, in my opinion. The first Heloise the Hollow has been won with a bid of 1,347,000 DEC (that's almost 1,100 USD), and now, for the second one, with over 5 hours left from the auction, the highest bid stands at 910,000 DEC. Don't cry that you won't win one! Be happy that whales spend as much on them!
Note that none of them is GF yet. The first GF one will be auctioned on the 27th of November.
Also, note that there is a proposal which bypassed the draft stage to stop SPS rewards for SoulKeep.
Communities / Meetups
Project Diary- More Updates on Bridging Hive and Creativity in Indonesia
I borrowed the title from the original post.
Looks like some thought went into creating a plan for Project Diary. I like that it defined a target audience that could have something to like about Hive at its core: "professionals, writers, journalists, aspiring writers, and tech and crypto enthusiasts in the region". I believe the region they refer to is Bahasa in Indonesia.
Interview with @stoodkev
I discovered @madilyn02's account and she makes these interesting written interviews on Hive. The 40th was with @stoodkev.
SpendHBD picks up Speed in Nigeria
It's not the first time I report about this, but seems this movement continues and catches momentum. I've also seen a few sign ups that seem related to these workshops.
Week in the Crypto World
Elections Over in the US...
... and Bitcoin made two consecutive ATH since, but things have cooled down a bit. Crypto obviously agrees with the results in America. I don't think the Republicans dreamt of such a massive victory on all fronts, and probably nobody did. It is from my observations of similar events from my own country (they are surprisingly similar these democracies, despite being different), that things don't go exactly well when politicians of any side (or massive coalitions) have too much power.
But for crypto, one dead weight was lifted when the elections were over with this result. The problem I see is the high expectations the space has from politicians and the TradFi. In those circles, nothing is given for free. There is no "fair launch". Everything has a cost. And crypto has been and will be paying the cost of expecting any "favors". Most costs will likely be of fundamental nature, and will be overshadowed by the pumping bags.
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I guess that is one way to look at the auctions. The more those whales spend, the better it is for the game and it does help fund splinterlands while the rest of us play in the ecosystem.
It is! Whales need their incentives too, or they get bored and put their money elsewhere.
I would assume somewhere around 900. The rate of onboarding has not changed a lot over the months. What is even more important than onboarding is retention. Even old accounts getting active again is a great news.
The number of accounts onboarded daily differs a lot. One day is 29, the next is in the 40s, the next is in the 20s again. This can only be calculated with a script. And I asked about November since that's when they started onboarding meme communities.
Yep, it would be great to see old accounts becoming active again. And they probably will in the bull market, as they price of HIVE goes up.
I think everyone agrees and probably have the same opinion about value plan, at least many people are aligned on them reducing their expenses, at least, heading into a bull run year
Let's see what we'll have next year... I think they got the message and asked for less money lately.
Cheers for the updates. For crypto and everything else the next few years will be 'interesting'.
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They surely will be a couple of interesting years ahead. Let's hope they will be memorable in a way that we would love to remember them after many more years.
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I like the Worldmappin curation idea
It’s nice!
It's kind of a classic method of sharing curation rewards for delegation we've seen in other projects.
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