This is the #91st 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
- PeakD
- Vibes
- SPK Network
- Clive
- HiveInvite
- CommentRewarder
- cryptomancer
- Golem Overlord
- Splinterlands
Crypto
- Paypal
- Wallstreet
Week on Hive
15 of 24 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
Peak Open and PeakD Announced a Series of Updates This Week
Peak Open is a collection of open-source projects for the Hive ecosystem developed by a team coordinated by the founders of PeakD, @jarvie and @asgarth, and funded by the DHF.
The common denominator of these projects is that they are open source, as I mentioned, and that they are created with the goal of being easily integratable into different apps or front ends on Hive, with or maybe, in some cases, without some help from their developers.
In PeakD's development update for September, they announced the integration of Peak Open's new browser extension Peak Vault (separate post here) with PeakD, but also a number of other visible enhancements to the front end:
- an update to the wallet interface, after public feedback received from @lordbutterfly a while back (the wallet page on PeakD now has two dictinct views - basic and advanced - selectable via a toggle; new users will always have the basic view by default)
- integration of maps into PeakD, following the presentation of WorldMapPin at Hivefest; follow-up more in-depth posts regarding WorldMapPin maps and their integration into PeakD are here and here
- easy filters added at the top of the notifications window
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Upcoming Changes to the Vibes Weekly Contest
Looks like some changes are coming to Vibes. Here they are, in short:
- all contest entries must set a 5% beneficiary share to the Vibes community account to be eligible for curation (I would add this must be about targeted curation for this contest, because no one can force anyone to curate one way or another on Hive), a rule that already existed but wasn't enforced so far
- there will be an upvote cap of 10 USD per post from Vibes' big curators, with bigger upvotes being unlocked if the participant makes promotional content about Hive and / or Vibes at least once a month. There are a few exceptions mentioned in the announcement.
- prize pool gets reduced from 500 to 400 USD weekly too (only first prize gets slashed)
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
SPK Network Held Their Final Testnet AMA...
... on Discord last week. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to follow, but knowing the date and time, I'm sure you can dig it up if you are curious what has been discussed. Here's the announcement.
Clive Updates
Clive added a list of bad accounts (usually the ones that have been created to take advantage of misspellings of popular service accounts). Normally, one couldn't send funds to a bad account using Clive, unless they define it as a known account first. Here are more details.
@pharesim Revives HiveInvite
HiveInvite is a service that allows us to invite new people to Hive, as the name says.
What I like about the way it works is that it uses email or invite links (including public ones) in the invitation process. Different ways to cater to different people either directly or using a wide net. Here's the announcement. Then the inviter uses its own claim tokens to create an account for the ones invited and which they accept, and even delegate some HP to them.
Speaking of @pharesim, listen how natural these AI agents seem already! But they have their moments when you can tell they are artificial despite being trained to be so... human.
@commentrewarder Started Being Used. Will a reblogrewarder Follow?
Acid had some impressions after the first usage of @commentrewarder. Dust threshold was on his mind.
He also started having some ideas about a reblogrewarder, but things are more complicated there (easier to abuse). Here are his thoughts.
Speaking of commentrewarder (CR), its developer @hivetrending wrote an interesting post about the recent projects he got involved in (including CR), and what he has his eyes on next.
SPS DAO: To Fund or Not to Fund a Splinterlands Employee's Payroll?
After the development of SPS validators started being funded by the SPS DAO, another proposal came to hire @cryptomancer to continue to develop land, all while still being a part of the Splinterlands team. The alternative seems to be that he stays, but others might not. The draft has not been met with enthusiasm, as expected, and its for or against votes only matter as an indication for how the proposal might be received by stakeholders in the true voting phase. Right now, a discord discussion with cryptomancer and potentially Matt is expected, so people may be waiting for that. This is the proposal.
Games
Golem Overlord on Android
Golem Overlord app is now available on Android, with their iOS application being in review.
They also added Stripe and Crypto Cornucopia as payment options, with the former being a payment rail for VISA, Paypal and other traditional payment methods, and the latter supporting over 300 cryptocurrencies, from what I read in the announcement.
Splinterlands - Advancing League Tiers Now Brings Chest Rewards
Since this week. advancing league tiers for the first time during a season brings chest rewards, based on the league tier reached. Here are the details.
Week in the Crypto World
Paypal Permits US Business Users to Hold Bitcoin and Ethereum in Their Wallets...
... and trade them. This may be a big move, since merchants with Paypal integrations can now accepts BTC and ETH, if they want to. They might want to in the bull market, but will they accept them in the bear market too, especially if their expenses are in fiat? We'll see... Here's the article.
WallStreet in Action: Leveraged Derivative of a Bitcoin Proxy
MicroStrategy is a bitcoin proxy. Investing in MSTR means an investment in bitcoin by proxy, at this point. But check this out: there are now ETFs that invest in MSTR with leverage (a small one, to be fair, so investors in these ETFs are not fully degens). So, investing in these ETFs is like leveraging bitcoin, but without buying it. You remain fully on fiat, and pay a bunch of fees for the "opportunity"....
Here's the smartness in the whole deal for TradFi... MSTR has a market cap of 35bn, bitcoin's market cap is about 1.2bn. Easier to go in and out of MSTR with huge amounts of fiat than to do it with BTC. Even easier to do it from an ETF, if they don't need to hold the support asset (MSTR) at 1:1 with the cash invested. Possibly why BTC doesn't moon even if there is enough interest from the corporations, pension funds, and even countries.
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Interesting week wasn't it. Splinterlands chests are always welcome but I still worry about long-term survival of the game since we all have so many assets in the game. I'm not sure the proposal to pay salaries is going to pass, after the huge sum they are getting daily then need SPS DAO to cover $90/ hour....
PayPal allowing BTC and ETH in wallets is a nice change, not that I use PayPal anymore. But a welcome change.
Commentrewarder I tried out today for the first time, we shall see how it goes...
Great post as always!
Yes, the sentiment shifted again on Splinterlands after seeing this proposal. Where it started to be a little more positive, now I see enough people turn negative about the future of the company, again, and they have every right to be so.
The problem with passing or not passing the proposal is that if they really need to fire someone if it doesn't pass (likely more than one since cryptomancer is probably better paid than others), who's left to work? Matt said (I think in the Town Hall) they are left with 6 devs.
It's a big pay to be added onto by the DAO again, and it's not like the DAO has unlimited funds. In fact, if the proposal passes, the DAO won't afford to spend for anything else for a good while.
It can be, because it applies to merchants, not to regular users. Of course, with Paypal one has be weary about the long-term existence of their accounts. They might end up banned without explanation.
Yep, it can be useful. But you should look into this, I think I read if their vote would be less than 0.001, they won't vote. That's where you should balance the beneficiary to set for them based on your regular author rewards, with the weight of your upvotes on comments.
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The SPL League advancement rewards are pretty nice. Not only does it encourage moving up in leagues, but it can also help newer players get cards earlier. The cryptomancer thing is interesting to say the least. There have been a lot of discussion even here on Hive posts.
I agree. That seems like a decent incentive at every playing level (except for investors), and it doesn't come with the expected drawback on the economy of reward cards immediately being dumped on the market.
Yeah, I know. I read a bit in discord too, in the channel clayboyn created for that. But didn't have time to read "the latest".
The last ones I've read had been for the team to just put Ads in the game.
Matt talked about it in the past, and they wouldn't add to any significant amount. Inleo was an example. They gave up ads from traditional providers and will focus on developing their own internal ad platform, which Splinterlands doesn't have the manpower to do.
Thanks again for the mention
You're welcome!
I like the Splinterlands advancement rewards the most. Is it already implemented? I have been waiting on it before doing more Splinterland battles.
Yep, it's live since Tuesday.
Well I think for PayPal and US business owners, it's a good thing, although it'll be better if this is also extended to other countries.
whether or not people would want to use this option in the bear market is another thing to actually look at, the fact is the option is now there.
I don't know if this possibility already exists in other countries and the US came after, or if the US is the first where they unlocked it.
Cheers for the updates. I hadn't seen all these, but I did see the changes in peakd. It's still my favourite way to use Hive.
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