I'm sure it's all in good faith, it's simply important that the value flows back to HIVE.

Totally agree with you. One way value is flowing back to Hive, which also subsequently pays Hive back for development costs, is our LPs use HBD. What that means is every trading pair locks up some HBD on one side of the pair. As trading occurs a small fee is taken and given to the liquidity providers and system reserve, causing deflation on HBD, ultimately routing back to increase the Hive price. In addition, consensus staking requires locking up Hive. Both of these routes will not be changing anytime soon, even with a long term token in a few years from now.

Our strategy is to build a sustainable network without a token first, then worry about the rest later.