This is a very dense week in news, so I'll get right on it.
Week on Hive
CPTX.io Was Launched This Week
CTPX, another content discovery and promotion website tied with the Hive ecosystem was launched by the CTP team this week. This is their launch podcast.
Leofinance Alpha - Week 2 After Launch
The new open alpha UI for Leofinance, also referred to as Project Blank in the past, or Threads 2.0, was launched last week.
Engagement went through the roof and is still going strong. In a post or a #thread, Khal (@khaleelkazi) let us know that Threads (both from the main website and from the alpha website) is now responsible for roughly 10% of all recent comments on Hive.
A number of updates, fixes and future features not yet rolled out (polls?) were presented to us this week:
- @leofinance/project-blank-dev-update-new-features-added-to-open-alpha-for-hives-everything-app
- @leofinance/leofinance-monthly-active-users-weve-grown-50-since-the-launch-of-project-blank-open-alpha
- @leofinance/threads-update-real-time-usdhive-price-tracking-or-microblogging-on-hive-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-dynamic
GOSH for Threads
GOSH is for Threads what POSH is for Twitter. Here are the details.
Splinterlands Updates
Splinterlands came out this week with a number of - let's say - smaller but important, updates.
- various league rating & ranked battle changes
- introduction of listing fees (sale and rental markets) and an expiration time for listings: @splinterlands/market-listing-fees-and-expiration
- dev diary update from SoulKeep - the game is now in closed beta!
- season rentals make their appearance next week
- final legendary summoner card airdrop happened
Psyber-X is Now Free to Play
Psyber-X came out with a post announcing the game is currently free to play:
@psyberx/psyber-x-is-now-free-to-play
You also should not miss @bobthebuilder2 on CTT in a discussion with @starkerz:
@spknetwork.chat/iebvmstn
Ragnarok Presentation and Testing Call-to-Action
@theycallmedan presented Ragnarok at the stage it is now (by sharing his screen while playing), and asks for more hands to test it to isolate a few hard-to-reproduce bugs.
New Shop Accepting Exclusively HIVE & HBD
A new shop with delivery all over the world (according to the site) was launched. It accepts only HIVE, SWAP.HIVE and HBD as payment, and it was launched by someone who has been on HIVE for 5 years and still active, probably German. Task had a look at the personal account too.
Week in the Cryptocurrency World
Coinbase Launches its Own Layer-2 Network
Its name will be Base and will run on Ethereum at the base layer. The layer-2 will be centralized and fully under Coinbase control, even though the advertisement is that it will facilitate the development of decentralized apps:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-launches-its-own-ethereum-layer-2-network-for-building-decentralized-apps
Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists
Tokenization is catching on and big companies are toying with them. Here's Spotify trying to create a sort of subscription based on NFTs:
https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/23/spotify-is-testing-token-enabled-music-playlists/
Banks May Still Service Crypto
The Fed, FDIC, and OCC have created no new risk management principles for banks dealing with crypto companies: servicing the crypto industry is neither illegal nor discouraged.
https://cryptopotato.com/banks-are-still-allowed-to-service-the-crypto-industry-clarifies-federal-reserve/