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Let's take Inleo for example, build on Hive, LEO token on L2, claimable on H-E, can be staked there as well.
I see a connection there. Similar to what ETH & OP have.

right, but Inleo is also available on other chains not just HE.
i can see this as Leo technically uses the HE smart contract for its L2.

but HE itself has no connection to Hive.

I see what you are saying. I don't disagree, but my point is HE has zero connections to hive other then piggybacking off the userbase with a simple wallet login.
and a wrapped token (swap.hive)

I think the wrapped token here is the key which makes it comparable to ETH L2s, or their DEXs with all of them using ETH as currency similar to that swap.hive is used on H-E for fees.

I don't know, there aren't that good DEXs on Hive anyway. BeeSwap is pretty good though

beeswap is not on Hive. It is just a HE skin

Nevertheless, it's still pretty ok. Btw, is there anything on Hive? 😅

what do mean by anything on hive?
tokens ? projects ?

Yeah, like projects? Is Splinterlands on Hive? Is H-E on Hive? Is Terracore on Hive? Is Inleo on Hive?