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This is the #83rd edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.
Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:
Hive
- INLEO
- HBD
- Keychain
- VSC
- Peak Open
- Social Shops
- Clive
- Monster-Curator
- Splinterlands
- Rising Star
- Ragnarok
Crypto
- Russia
- Kamala Harris
Week on Hive
14 of 26 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
INLEO Now Has Shorts, a Referral Program, and a Re-Worked Leaderboard
For about a week or so, Shorts have been up on the INLEO platform for the community to play with them, test, find bugs, and offer feedback.
INLEO integrated the Shorts technology implemented by the 3Speak team, but they had to do extensive backend work to adapt them to the expectations of use case on Threads. Basically, they had to recreate a backend container similar to the one they have for Threads, because otherwise there would have been a limitation of posting a short every 5 minutes from the same account, which doesn't make sense for a normal use of this feature, where someone might post a few shorts in a row and then never post anything else for a good while.
I haven't used Shorts, but I hear they became more stable than when they were when they were first released. Khal also has big plans for them, inspired by features on TikTok, where you could capture a short sequence from a short (like a quote when you reply in writing) and record a reply to it, as a short. At least that's how I understood the explanation from Khal from the last AMA because I don't use TikTok and haven't seen it in action, but I imagine how it would work and makes sense for people loving the short video content, instead or writing a reply, which may be less expressive.
Another important piece of news from INLEO is the official full release of their referral program. They announced it here.
A referral program has the power to activate members of the community to work for onboarding new users, and if it's well done, to retain them. That's what decentralization is for, right? Everyone doing their part! The new referral system offers LEO rewards for bringing in new users but also for their subsequent activity. You can find what they are from the post linked above.
I believe well thought referral programs work, and help bring in new users on the platforms that offer them, generally at a relatively low cost and no effort for those platforms (and respectively, their teams). On the other side, if some people get very pushy in their attempts to get more referrals, that may occasionally backfire.
The INLEO team also re-worked their Leaderboard for daily, weekly and monthly most active users, with a point system for various activities that can be done on the platform. The new activities now include referring new users.
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
APR for HBD in Savings Dropped to 15%
A few top witnesses started signalling for 15% APR and therefore, based on the mean algorithm that is used to select the APR paid on HBD in savings, it dropped from 20% to 15%.
What's New in Hive Keychain Mobile 2.2?
I've already written twice this week about the first feature introduced in v.2.2 of Keychain Mobile, "Onboard your friends".
What else is there? They activated Open Peak notifications on mobile.
And two security features: detection of private key changes and detection of vesting routes changes, which both may indicate a potential attack on your account, if you haven't initiated them yourself.
Here's the full post.
VSC Successfully Tested Transactions Between HIVE and EVM
VSC announced on X that they successfully sent HIVE to an ETH address and back via the VSC Network. First Bitcoin, now Ethereum! Things are looking great!
Peak Open Added Hive-Engine and SPS weighted Polls
Peak Open added support for staked SPS weighted polls as well as for certain liquid or staked Hive-Engine tokens. This is the announcement.
Social Shops on Hive Now Integrated Paypal
Paypal certainly knows how to make small-scale e-commerce easy for everyone, particularly when we talk about fiat. That until they randomly decide that you broke their ToS.
But for e-commerce shops, having a paypal option seems in the advantage of the owners of the shops. More options, more potential sales.
Social shops on Hive (via @social.gifts) offers the option to integrate Paypal for shop owners. They describe how to do it here.
Clive Introduced Account Switching
Clive introduced the possibility to switch the working account, which is very useful if you have multiple accounts.
Monster-Curator and Related 1UP Curation Services Are Shutting Down
If you have Hive-Engine tokens delegated to Monster-Curator or any of the related 1UP Hive-Engine curation services, note that they stopped curating and you should un-delegate.
Games
Splinterlands Updates
A few major updates in and around the Splinterlands ecosystem this week:
The Chaos Legion soulbound reward cards set stops being sold in the Glint Shop on August 15th, when the Rebellion soulbound reward cards set replaces it. At the same time, old soulbound reward cards become unbindable for a fee. The new set comes with 12 commons, 12 rares, 7 epics, and 12 legendaries, along with 4 new abilities and, for the first time, 3 debilitations. This announcement describes everything.
A new Hive Town Hall meeting after a while has been convened to talk about the Splinterlands DHF proposal. The guest was Matt Rosen, less than 1-year old CEO (and co-founder) of Splinterlands. I believe it was an important talk, which revealed some information people either forgot or wasn't public knowledge (like how much HIVE Splinterlands burned in 2021 to create new accounts, i.e. around 1.8m HIVE). Following the meeting, the Splinterlands DHF proposal received a few more big upvotes, but it's still a few million HP worth of votes short of being funded.
Splinterlands also presented the plan for the overhaul of the Voucher system, following the passed proposal related to this topic.
There are a number of polls being put forth recently too, as well as SPS DAO proposals. One of them discusses the termination of incentives for the SPS:WETH pool, and creation of a v3 pool instead.
Rising Star Introduced Artist Specific Missions
Rising Star added a new mission dedicated to certain artists, who play and support the game. From my understanding, you must own one of their record NFTs to play the mission and have a chance to receive a limited edition reward. The first artist who was featured was Trenton Lundy. Here's the announcement.
Ragnarok AMA
@simplegame, the new developer of Ragnarok, was in a X space with @eddiespino to talk about Ragnarok development, in what appears will be a regular thing (bi-monthly or monthly). Listen to the recording if you are interested. There is also a call to action from the developer to test the game in this stage and offer feedback, to better know how to proceed further.
Week in the Crypto World
Putin Warms Up to Crypto Mining
Russia is big on mining... in general, as it has so many resources. So I guess crypto mining is still... mining, right?
Where I see a sudden change is from pushing toward a CBDC - which was one of our featured crypto news from last week - toward crypto mining. Did they understand that a CBDC based on Ruble has no chance? Or are they still pursuing both plans? Here's more on the green light to crypto mining in Russia.
Ban Them, Then Hire Them!
You gotta love politics... Binance was forced out of the US. Now that the stance on crypto changes, one of the (formerly?) top advisors at Binance is hired as an advisor by Kamala Harris... How nice! To be fair, many of these "advisors" have no loyalty, and can easily jump from one side to another, depending on conditions. Read more, if you want to.
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