I don't think any amount of money is going to adopt hive more than it is already. Your user base are your biggest promoters when it comes to applications.
The major issue with hive is the blockchain has fallen behind from once being far ahead of others. There's no smart contracts, its difficult for developers to come in and develop on the platform and we have massive exits of money putting downward pressure on the price of hive.
IMO we need to get smart contracts fired up asap, a real layer two solution and then start brining on developers with hackathons etc to build on hive. The building of those applications and use cases will fuel growth on it's own. Be it a new game, a social front end or whatever else. Most projects on here right now just feel stagnate. We have been waiting forever for a real "shorts" style front end from 3 speak but it's clear their focus is more on centralizing it over UX/UI. InLeo has been having ok pace and the gaming sector on here took a bit of a hit.
DHF should be used as an incubator program and not as a constant exit of funds. PeakD, Ecency etc all need to figure out ways to be self sustainable now and stop asking for 700 HBD daily. It's honestly that simple. Stop the exit flow of HBD to project who are making plenty just off curation alone, get smart contracts in here already, bring in more developers and get the core dev team on building the resources other devs need to continue application growth.
The ONE time Hive took off I firmly believe a vast majority of that came from Splinterlands and nothing else. So yes applications are what are going to power hive and give hive value and layer two tokens are going to have to be self sustaining. That's my vision of what needs to happen but many at the top hate it because it takes away their cushy pay.
The problem with Hive is that the community is on social media platforms native to Hive so theyre not going outside of Hive and when they do that still shuts us in the echochamber we cant escape.
The only way to escape is to do it manually.
Its still the dapp founders that need to promote themselves to audiences.
If you build it they will come, doesnt work.
I talked to a number of devs about this. Not all ofc. No one wanted to help that I talked to.
And at that time Aggroed was hardly silent and had dead social media accounts.
Peakd last 3 posts got 30 views total. And they havent posted on Twitter in 1 month and ecency in 5 months.
They will attract no one in the crypto twitter ecosystem.
If we lost Matt and Dans 3speak, Inleo I dont think that we would have any kind of presence on Twitter besides our Hiveblocks account and Splinterlands.
"If you build it they will come, doesn't work."
This is true and something a application owner can work on with their start up community here on hive to implement referral programs or other incentives to share their application with others.
Also valid points about presence on Twitter (X). It's pretty hard to make anything note worthy for hive since there's honestly just not that much going on in terms of builds. InLeo has pushed pretty heavily and honestly the onboarding there makes the most sense from X being that it's so close to what many are use to.
It's a shame on the smart contracts front but at least it looks like VSC network will be working on this now with funding. I'm eager and interested to see how that turns out and then how we can use it to attract in more development etc.
Big politicians use major networks to spread their word.
Small politicians talk to people on the street and go from door to door. They call them on the phone.
Most our dapps are small. We need their founders to go out there and talk to people.