It's hard to believe that it has been more than a year since I last posted anything from this account. I guess time flies, regardless of whether you're having fun or not!

Part of the issue has invariably been that second layer Hive-Engine based communities seldom seem to last very long.

Of course, I lost a lot of steam when both of the previous Creative Coin front ends were shut down, which made it a little bit more difficult to follow the part of the creative community actively interested in the token.

Unlike many of Hive's second layer tokens, CreativeCoin seems to have found a bit of a "secondary life" from being part of liquidity pools, some of which have offered those who want to put their tokens to use some fairly handy returns over the past couple of years. That said, the typical trend of a Hive-Engine token being unable to hold onto its value over time remains an issue.

But I continue to offer my support as best I can, with about 130,000 tokens still invested across three different liquidity pools.

The almost inevitable issue with 2nd level communities (and their tokens) seems to be that they set forth with great promises and ideas about how they're going to do things and ”change the game” but anywhere from a few months to a few years down the road somebody discovers that making a go of it is much harder than you think and (especially!) that you need something more substantial to offer people than simply the promise ”you can earn some of our tokens if you post here!”

Sure you can! And as soon as people get their hands on some of those tokens they turn around and sell them… and you quickly end up with a situation in which there is a marketplace filled with sellers and no buyers because — after all — what is the compelling reason to be a buyer and to hold said tokens?

I just try to be grateful for whatever stability I can find!

Till the next one, thanks for stopping by!

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Curator Cat, October 15th, 2026