I think Hive will start to behave more and more like a currency, and it will not fluctuate as wildly as other speculative altcoins that abound in the crypto scene.
Reason for the stability of Hive is because it has an ecosystem, a kind of microeconomy in itself with so many projects orbiting around the Hive-engine, it tends to make it behave more like the currency of a country rather than a fly by night crypto coin that promises you a one way ticket to go to the moon.
Countries have attributes like gross domestic product, employment rate, interest rates, and many many other metrics that define how the economy of a country is performing, well, Hive is starting to have all these attributes in itself.