Week through Adrian's Lenses (24 - 30 May 2025)

This is the #125th 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

• Hive
• Kingdom
• HiveDev Workshop
• Distriator
• Ecency
• SPK Network
• Inleo
• Hive-Engine
• Diesel Pools
• HAF
• HBD Stabilizer
• PeakD
• Actifit
• PWR
• Moon

Crypto

• Bitcoin/Military

Week on Hive

18 of 35 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.

In the Spotlight

Hive Onboarding and Engagement

Last week's spotlight was about user retention and a breakdown of it yearly and based on activity and HP. Looks like there are more plans with that data analysis, like to find out where users "get lost" for each onboarder and transmit them (the onboarders and the community) this information, to hopefully improve what can be improved to retain more users.

More plans (and development) seem to be under way to create some sort of system to easier discover newbies on Hive. There might be some gamification for them too, but I don't know. Hints about this are offered by @coldbeetrootsoup, after they talked with @starkerz.

And finally, @holoz0r made an analysis of the comments on Hive and how unique they are.

It isn't surprising to me that bots create the most comments. In fact, I would have thought more than 1/3 of the comments on Hive are bot generated, or simple bot-invoking commands, or something like "Thank you!" or its variants (which is very nice to hear, in a conversation - I use it too).

That means that 2/3 of the comments are either meaningful or varied enough to not get picked up as duplicates by the script. We know more of them are still not meaningful enough, but often (almost never, I'd say 😀) you don't need to write a doctoral degree paper in your comments. That's why shorts were invented, because people like to say something in a few words or a meme. But a little personality showed in those comments is good, no matter if they are short or long.

Marketing / Awareness / Branding / Meetings

The Kingdom Is Turning 10 and Wants to Organize a Festival

The Kingdom Without Limit from Krakow is turning 10 and wants to organize an event between June 26-29 to celebrate. There will be meetings, workshops, and film screenings in the 4 days of the event and they want the community to shape it. See the announcement.

HiveDev Workshop in Barquisimeto-Venezuela

I find interesting the information collected from this workshop, as well as their objectives. Talent often is "recruited" from the universities, and potentially having Hive taught there in the future, or potential partnerships with companies sound good to me.

Students Pay for Breakfast with HBD and Get Cashback with Distriator

In the series "Hive Goes to School", students from the Don Pedro Fe y Alegría college, can buy breakfast from the school's self-operated cafeteria, pay with HBD and get cashback from Distriator. Hopefully, this goes on beyond the initial excitement! Here's the story.

Governance / Development / Dapps / Education

Ecency Has a New Editor

I finally had a chance to take a look at the new editor from Ecency.

The new editor might be something new for Hive but certainly not new for the editors world. But it is good, because people are used to "what you see is what you get" editors (like Word or Google Docs). That means that you no longer have a page where you write your markdown (it doesn't support html) and another where you see the preview, it's all on one page: what you see is what you get... Get it? 😀

Here's the announcement with more updates.

DLUX + SPK + Honeycomb Front End Updates

This post sparked my interest (and it was meant to, because their DHF proposal was at the limit, maybe below when it was published).

Those screenshots speak more than I can say in many words, so go check them out.

• adding files to posts?
• sharing drive links?
• flexible virtual folder structure?
• dragging and dropping files?

All of those seem to be "in the menu" (with screenshots), for the new IPFS Drive powered by SPK Network.

Inleo Moving Away from Inflationary Rewards

I talked about this news in a separate post yesterday.

But here's a different discussion in the Lion's Den on the same subject.

Hive-Engine Fees for Multi-Tx Market Ops Are Live

That went well, apparently. No major hiccups became public, to my knowledge. A second phase will rollout at the end of September for more types of multi-tx transactions. There is now a throttle list for "offenders". If you are interested, it's all in the Hive-Engine Discord server.

Breaking into Pieces and Automatically Executing Large Swaps in Diesel Pools

Do you want to perform a big swap in a diesel pool? Even if there is enough liquidity, the slippage can be considerable.

Breaking the amount into smaller pieces and executing them at certain intervals may help. There is now a service that can do it for you automatically.

Something similar is available for the limit order markets, by the way, on the same platform.

Hivemind and HAF Block Explorer Integrated in Mahdiyari's HAF Database

Hivemind and HAF Block Explorer were added to Mahdiyari's public HAF database recently.

Open-source HBD Stabilizer Bot

Want to run your own HBD Stabilizer? @borislavzlatanov created an open-source version of the well-known HBD stabilizer bot, based on the pseudocode provided by smooth. The exact code of the HBD stabilizer isn't public (to avoid being taken advantage of, probably by front running HBD stabilizer).

Magic AI Prompts on PeakD

I need to look into this, but I spent time doing less productive things lately... It seems from the post that PeakD now also offers magic prompts to users of their AI generating services. Magic prompts help expand a prompt that is of little use to a more descriptive version that gives more information to the AI generating the image.

From another post we learn that new AI models were added, and yeah, the KE ratio is now less prominent, unless you want to brag with it.

AI Guidance for Working Out

Actifit has a new Android version. Among the new features, I remarked the workout guided by AI feature. Read more.

PWR Is Going Through Some Changes

I wrote about it before. I'm sure people who are involved with the project are already up-to-date with the news, so I won't insist. Basically, after moving from a Hive soft-pegged to a volatile-token model, the decision was made to drop the APR for the staked PWR, and stakers at the time of the snapshot already received an airdrop as a compensation. Focus is now on the LP. In the long term, a migration to VSC is considered.

Games

Moon First Season Over (For Me)

It would have been fun (but exhausting for me), had it not ended in drama... I guess that's all I wanted to say. It's been said waaay too much already. Some may want to keep playing in universe 1... Maybe I would have too, under different circumstances.

Week in the Crypto World

Something about Bitcoin, Strategic Reserve, and Military...

Maybe I'm tired, but this doesn't sound too good to me.

Ok, I get it, Bitcoin Strategic Reserve good (whatever, I'd say it's debatable, depends on what you want more: numbers go up or less centralized control over BTC). But when the military backs it, damn, that should trigger some ring bells.

If not for Bitcoin, then for what they are expecting to happen with the world economy in the close future caused by them (the military).

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