Week through Adrian's Lenses (13-19 April 2024)
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This is the #67th edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.
Let's see what we have for this week.
Week on Hive
16 of 39 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
Next Year's DHF Funding Proposal For VSC & V4V.App As a Whole Was Published This Week
The L2 Hive smart contracts introduced by VSC (for now, in the testnet phase) could become the most impactful foreseeable development on Hive, if things go well.
VSC & VSV.App share a common goal of linking Hive and Bitcoin. For V4V.App, it's already achieved via Bitcoin Lightning, but what remained without a clear path forward was how to decentralize the whole system. With VSC and its separate goal of building a Bitcoin wrapping system on Hive, the solution became clearer: V4V.app will externalize the exchange operations to VSC, and @brianoflondon will rewrite the code of the app so that it can work in a decentralized way without the exchange part, and will open source the code.
If we look at the roadmap for VSC, we see Bitcoin wrapping will be ready for production by next month (May), while the "mainnet" of the network is expected in Q4 of this year.
@vaultec mentioned the roadmap will be detailed as time goes by, but if you read before that, at the scope of the project, we can have some idea of the size and complexity of the project.
If you want a short bullet point list of what VSC brings, I'll quote from the proposal text:
VSC Brings:
Powerful code in any language smart contracts
EVM Wallet compatibility
Wrapping of BTC to Hive
Tools for payment processing of Hive, HBD and wrapped Bitcoin via automated contract.
Smart Contract Controlled HIVE accounts
Native Lite accounts on L2 and soon L1 as well.
DeFi directly on Hive
Aid the development of Games, NFTs and many more projects on Hive.
Low chain bloat - scalable offchain
…and much more
You can read more and vote on the proposal, if you want to, from here.
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Croatian Rally in Full Swing
WRC Croatia started yesterday, with the Hive car and team at the start, now in a higher category. Let's see how it goes!
A Little More About Talent Land...
We talked about it in the previous roundup, but I wanted to share another post, from one of the participants (and speakers), @manuphotos, who was impressed.
Q&A Session at the Hive Tech Conference in Ghana
It's been a while since the Hive Tech Conference in Ghana, but we now have a recording of the Q&A session, and you might want to take a look...
HBD Benefits Explained...
... by @hiveblocks-es to the Spanish-speaking community. This is a good promotional material or article to reference to.
Hive Movie Update...
The Hive movie script has been updated to include the events of the Steem takeover. This is a different movie from the Freechain film. From the comment section, we find out that:
Freechain is a dao funded informative documentary that is already on the festival circuit. This project is a dramatic feature length film and no appart of freechain at all. Very different projects with different objectives.
Here's the announcement.
Governance / Development / Dapps
LeoDex Officially Launched (But Still in Beta)
After a short period of public Alpha - I would call it - the LEO team decided to make things more official, creating a proper announcement post for LeoDex. Significant updates can be found, as often, from their INLEO AMA.
Call to Action! Contribute to the Development of the SPK Network's Breakaway Communities
The SPK Network team published a call to action post addressed to junior and senior developers who want to contribute to the development of the SPK Network's Breakaway Communities. If you are interested, you can see how to participate in their post.
Vesting Route Change Detection and Transaction Exports in Hive Keychain 3.3 Beta
There is a new version of Hive Keychain Beta (won't update automatically until it goes to production).
The new version adds the ability to detect changes in the vesting route for improved security of the account.
I would note that from the top front ends, only Ecency has implemented the feature of setting and changing vesting routes (as far as I know) since we moved away from the legacy chain. Personally, I'd prefer all capabilities of the chain to have corresponding features, even if they are under an advanced page or something like that.
Secondly, in 3.3 we will be able to download transaction history as .csv files. That should be useful.
Clive Updates - TUI Account Management & CLI Show Chain
On the account management side, Clive added Watched, Known, and Working Account(s) to TUI, which makes it more usable with multiple accounts. I haven't used Clive yet, but I expect information on Watched accounts to be displayed on demand, and not notification-style. But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaking of the other update, the Show Chain info, I wonder how many of Hivers know that the HIVE inflation rate is currently at 6.4% (and slowly dropping). Without considering the influence of conversions, of course.
Games
Rise of the Pixels Will Launch on Monday...
... but before that, existing players from the beta phase enjoy a week of additional prizes. There will be 48 hours of post-launch bonuses too. Also, existing players from the beta phase are reminded to switch the website at launch to riseofthepixels.com (without beta.). Read the full announcement here.
This is an additional announcement regarding the rules of the pre-launch event.
Rising Star Updates
Rising Star pushed a series of developments recently. Haven't played in a while and don't know how to approach the new game modes? Here's a bilingual tutorial for the Rising Star Pro gameplay.
Rising Star also has a collaboration with the Big Dog Bone game where each of the two games will feature cards from the other game, as we find out from an announcement of Big Dog Bone, reblogged by Rising Star.
Meetings / Events / Communities
Verbal-D Will Join as a Judge for Vibes Contests
@verbal-d will join as a permanent judge for the weekly Vibes contests. From my understanding, he will be replacing @lordbutterfly in this role, with the latter focusing on the promotion and behind-the-scenes work.
Week in the Crypto World
Bitcoin Halving in a Few Hours and Counting...
Yep, the time has come! Today is the day many have waited for the last 4 years. I hope they had some other things to do in the meantime... 😀
Will anything change for you after that time passes? No! Looking back in a few months though, we will probably see it as the signal for the next bull phase, even though it will probably start with a few more days up to weeks of sideways or pullback action.
The Bitcoin halving is reason for celebration in the crypto world for good reason, as it defines the cycle that makes things relatively predictable in this otherwise crazy world.
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I was thinking I could see a pump towards the BTC halving but it isn’t looking like it. Let’s see what happens immediately after the halving
I wouldn't hold my breath for a pump right after the Bitcoin halving. But if you'll have a little patience... 😀
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The market right now will see us very volatile for a few days due to this event and then the next six months to a year is going to be very good for the market.
You are probably right. I am prepared for that, but I see many want the market to go up right away. They should learn to have a little patience.
Yeah.
Great job on posting so many activities from this past week @gadrian. I will share your blog. Have a great weekend! Barb !BBH !CTP #ctp
Thanks, Barb. Yep, things are always busy around Hive, even when we don't realize it.
You're welcome @gadrian They sure are busy around Hive and always behind the scenes. !BBH !CTP
The VSC proposal was really exciting. They are already gearing up for the next steps after putting out the smart contracts. The Rise of the Pixels release is surprising. I was expecting Holozing to come out first before it.
Not really. They started their early phases around the same time if I remember correctly, and probably development (especially art) on RotP should go much faster than on Holozing, from my impression, although I haven't gotten involved with RotP early on.
I guess that's true. Although what I meant was at least the alpha sale of Holozing would be earlier than RotP release. There were a lot of updates back then, but it seems they went silent for while now.
I agree with this. Seems like they changed plans or development works much slower than they expected.
I am really looking forward to VSC and it's great to hear that v4app is also considering decentralization. Open Sourcing it will allow it to continue running even if they get hit.
Yep, I know Brian was thinking of ways to do it for a good while but didn't know how to proceed with the exchange part, which seemed the most difficult to decentralize without creating your own decentralized network, with its own security, as VSC did.
Halving has come, lets Hope hive pumps
It will probably take a while before the market pumps.
The statistics on https://www.mayascan.org/stats/interfaceWars are looking very good for LeoDEX considering the fact that the project has been around only for a few days. Without at least 15 days passing, the stats are not even comparable with the more popular interfaces.
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Yep, looking good. But we need to give it some time to see exactly how things will settle. Right now there's testing and filling up the LP which may interfere with what the stats will look like after a while.
When things stabilize, more people will be encouraged to use it, so the stats could increase.
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