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Again, I get your point and not arguing about that. SOL & ETH are two L1s and so is HIVE. While Arb, and OP are L2s and H-E works on the second layer SO, my point was that a better comparison would've been ETH to some L2 instead of Solana. In other words, still within the ecosystem no matter how we feel about L2s.

I would say HE doesn't work on Layer 2. as their is no real connection.
It is a completely seperate side-chain.

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? 😅

possibly.
i stil think SOL works as HE has not connection to Hive and is its own L1 side-chain.