The reason Whive is stagnating is because HIVE has 0 marketing. Nothing exciting is happening and the future doesnt seem to promise much.

The second layer is where the excitement is at. With DEC and LEO and the incentives they provide. 60k USD worth of land from Splinterlands and i dunno how many thousands of dollars worth of LEO.

See the problem HIVE has is that our stakeholders and witnesses, the guys that make the calls, to put it mildly, are dumb and inert.

Just as an example, if you wanted to increase the liquidity, greatly increase the volume you could fairly easily do it.
The "guys" make a proposal for lets say 200k USD worth of HBD that will be provided as an incentive to provide liquidity to WHIVE. Than we all rush on twitter and tell the world, since everyone likes money this will undoubtedly attract attention and WHIVE becomes a thing.
Good from price perspective and good from marketing perspective.

Im just giving an example and im not saying if this is a good or bad idea, im just saying that simple things like this can be done but they wont be...

Why?

As i said above... because the guys in charge of HIVE are inert and dumb.

My best suggestion is to change the witnesses and help give quality folks more voice. Edicted and Leofinance being good choices.