I see Hive like a Sandbox. We need Smts and Smart contracts. Entrepreneurs and Influencer need the Tools to generate Value and revenue.
Hive for Rewarding is not the best way. And Hive engine Tokens are impossible to list outside of hive.
So we have no solution for builders here. That's why the price sucks. I have something for years in mind to build, but hive has not had the tools I would need for it. Only the social, but that's not enough.
And I'm not alone with it. REAL SMTs that are on the main chain ( Balance) would change everything. So Exchanges could list the token and business could start.
Not every dapp on hive needs social. Think about a Uniswap Dapp here with community talking about the tokens. IMO an amazing cash cow :)
About the sidechain with smart contracts, IMO the sidechain should use Hive as a native token. Like the Binanace Smart chain. It would increase the demand for Hive.
It could be a FORK of Bsc that burns Hive for transactions. And after this is in place to update and decentralize it.
So much potential here.