That is why the Hive Smart Contract development by @klye is so vital. He is basically looking to bring the same capability to the Hive ecosystem as Ethereum has. Basically the Ethereum Virtual Machine running as a sidechain to Hive, using HIVE as the token for transaction fees. This will radically change things if there are a few applications built upon it.

We will see how it goes but something like that could push HIVE to 3 figures, possible even 4.