Week through Adrian's Lenses (12 - 18 July 2025)

This is the #132nd edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.

Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:

Hive

• Mobile Gaming
• Massages for... HBD?
• SpendHBD / Guatemala
• VSC
• Water Project
• WorkerBee
• Hive earnings
• Snap & Pay
• Presentation: Hive Dev
• INCOME
• Splinterlands Conflicts

Crypto

• Stablecoins
• ETH

Week on Hive

x of 28 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup. A couple of them may be cross-posted in the Hive News community without being included in this news roundup.

Next week, I'll be on vacation and if I'll be able to track some news during the week, the roundup will come during the next week-end, instead of Friday. If not, I'll skip a week.

In the Spotlight

Hive and Mobile Gaming

This week we had two posts from Aggroed talking about the important progress they've made (Invennium, Keychain Mobile, and Hive URI teams) to bringing to life a platform for Web 3 mobile games using the Hive blockchain, with the first two to be tested there being Stake House Den (Invennium's new social casino online game) and Moon Karts next. To support that, the Arcade Colony's home page will become mobile-first. There will also be mobile apps for both Android and iPhone, but only for playing the games, without the Web 3 parts.

Another very interesting fact is that they'll use Hive URI to be able to run the web app from the user's default/preferred browser (not Keychain), and still be able to work with assets on the Hive blockchain through it, by deep-linking to Hive Keychain.

Here are the relevant posts:

• Hive Mobile Gaming
• What success looks like- transactions sent with keychain mobile going through on arcadecolony.com

We all know that mobile gaming can make the difference in adoption nowadays, especially for short fun games, and easy to play. This could really be an important milestone!

Marketing / Awareness / Branding / Meetings

MenO Onboarded a Massage Place to Hive

How much is a plane ticket to Ecuador? I need one more massages please, lol. Hopefully, I'll have at least one in my vacation. But back to that place in Ecuador now.

Topping Up Hotel Room Account with HBD

So... we're back in Guatemala again, where our friendly volunteers showing us how to top up the hotel's room Hive account with HBD, which the guests are spending using the HBD debit card inside the hotel. The guest gives the receptionist the local currency, and the Keychain Mobile App knows how much HBD is needed to top up when the amount in local currency is entered (so, probably takes the current rate of the local currency from the official source of information?). The full process is something like 1-2 minutes, WITH explanations.

How Will VSC Make It Easy to Sell Your Products to BTC or ETH Holders for a Hive Business?

Lord Butterfly explains it well on X, with Splinterlands as an example, but it applies to any business on Hive.

The key here is that they will use their own wallets all the way, while making transactions to buy things from you, on Hive, via VSC.

LATAM Water Project Ramping Up

It's the second time I read about a water project in LATAM funded by Value Plan. This one is focused on the restoration of a big water tank.

Governance / Development / Dapps / Education

Hive Communities: Notifications Working

Notifications existed for communities, but didn't work until @howo recently fixed them.

WorkerBees Everywhere!

We have a WorkerBee on Hive-Engine which is the miner token for BEE tokens. But now we have another one, and that is a library that can help any developer build various bots on Hive (without messing around with APIs).

New Hive Earnings Tool

A new Hive earnings tool from @borniet came out this week,which presents things in a clean, easy to read way. An overview of earnings of your account over the last N days. Looks like he might be adding a Hive-Engine section too, and yeah... a perpetually controversial topic: downvotes.

Snap & Pay

MenO seems to want to create an alternative to Distriator that works for micro-transactions (something like sub-dollar payments) and with snaps instead of posts. That's Snap & Pay. He created a prototype tested locally. He is getting ready to buy a domain.

New Developer Introducing Himself on Hive

Developers are very important to an ecosystem like Hive, always at the borderline of innovation. And Poland is a place where we have a strong community of Hive devs.

Fabian is at his first post but after 1 year of being on Hive. But he has done things behind the scenes. Here's what.

INCOME Project Is Closing

If you still have any, go to Hive-Engine, and sell into the buywall at 13 HIVE per token. Eco made a little history of it and reasons for closing it.

Games

Conclave Arcana Conflicts Started on Splinterlands

For everyone who bought many CA packs, participating in conflicts for the airdrops seems... almost mandatory, to get the full benefits of the packs.

Conflicts started this week. Since I don't take part in them, I don't follow news about them too closely. But they are very lucrative opportunities even for those who chose a different strategy. By the way, from discord, it seems to me Wagon kits for the next conflict will be even more in demand than for the first conflict, unless people will have stockpiles left.

Week in the Crypto World

Stablecoins Legislation on Trump's Desk

@taskmaster4450 followed this topic closely, and I'm using a link he shared. The US House votes 3 stablecoin-related bills, after the Senate did the same thing. Next stop is Trump. I hear he's in rough shape at home with his own supporters, so maybe he's less inclined to wild moves.

New Top Holder of ETH!

The Ethereum Foundation has been dethroned from the top spot holder of ETH. The new king is SharpLink Gaming, which has been buying ETH like crazy lately. Check it out!

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