Week through Adrian's Lenses (7 - 13 June 2025)

This is the #127th 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

• Onboarders/Retention/OCD
• HiveFest
• Hive Hub Hotel
• Topical Communities
• Entrepreneurs Club
• Zypto
• Dev Presentation
• PeakD
• Various Tools
• Blogging
• Splinterlands
• Moon
• Holozing

Crypto

• Coinbase / Credit Card / BTC
• Centralized Bitcoin Holdings

Week on Hive

19 of 32 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

OCD and OCDB Have by far the Highest Retention Rate Among Top Onboarders to Hive in 2024

We have a breakdown on user retention rate by onboarders in 2024, as analyzed by @spiritsurge here.

In that table, "super retained" means retained by both activity and HP, and the threshold to be considered retained by HP is 100 HP.

You can see the biggest onboarder to Hive in 2024 was @leo.voter with 18,531, but only 599 of them were retained according to the stats (or 3.2%). So, 96.8% were not retained. Similar numbers of above 90% unretained users were realized by most top onboarders.

Maybe we should mention @actifit as having better results with a 10.7% retention rate, of which 2% of users are super retained (meaning they power up too), while 8.6% are only retained by activity. Why 2+8.6 isn't equal to 10.7? Probably because of rounding.

But now let's move to @ocd and OCDB. I know OCD has an Onboarding and Orientation Program, which as we will see, is very effective. Not sure exactly how are users onboarded via OCDB and especially what happens after they get onboarded, but they have very high retention for activity, considering the high number of people joining via this account.

Let's see...

OCD onboarded a lower number of accounts, but those who were onboarded performed really well: 18% super retained, 15.4% retained by HP only, 9.8% retained by activity only. That's a total of 43.2% retention rate. Impressive! 1 in 2 people joining through them in 2024 is not lost yet. I don't think you can find anywhere online such fantastic results!

OCDB, however, is right up there close to 2nd place at the number of total onbordees in 2024. And yet, it has a 22.3% retention rate by activity (much higher than any other onboarder), without excelling at the others.

How do they do that? Is it a good model to follow? Does it scale up? The fact that OCDB had great results for activity at over 23x more onboarded users than OCD, may mean the model could possibly scale.

Marketing / Awareness / Branding / Meetings

HiveFest 2025 Teaser

Hey! Wanna warm up for Hive Fest in Kuala Lumpur? I know many don't need any warm up, neither metaphorically (they are already pretty excited) nor literally (heat is already high where they live). But here it is!

Hive Hub Hotel - Team Getting Together

The team just got together at the Hive Hub Hotel in Guatemala. We had a few short videos already, but looks like the fun (and the work) has just begun and we'll hear a lot more from there in the coming weeks.

Targeted Hive Communities Better Suited to Channel Visitors Toward?

@x-rain asked himself and us if targeted Hive communities would be a better destination to push visitors toward. I think it is a must, if we don't want to waste those visits. I think Hivers still subscribe to too many Hive-centric communities instead of topic-related ones. I am guilty of that too.

"Entrepreneurs Club" Workshop in Venezuela

Haven't written about Venezuela in a while... This seems like an interesting news to share, and a great mentality, we certainly need on Hive.

Governance / Development / Dapps / Education

Zypto DHF Proposal

We have a DHF proposal instrumented by @crimsonclad in the name of @zypto, to fund the integration of HIVE with this full suite of global financial tools.

I'll share this quote:

With the implementation of Hive, Zypto will work to build a decentralized custodial system so that HIVE and HBD can be accepted as a payment method across the entire Zypto product suite including Reloadable Cards, Prepaid Cards, Bill Payments, and much more.

Meet One of Hive Devs

We don't always "know" Hive devs, because they are too busy building and not always have time or desire to present themselves or their work to the community.

@mtyszczak, a long-time Hiver by now, presented himself and his Hive work to the community. He just finished working on the Hive Wallet (the one that will be integrated into Metamask, if approved), but contributed to many other projects and likely will continue to do that. Thank you for doing that!

PeakD Added a Visual Editor, Online but Still in Development

I talked about the new editor in a separate post. This is the announcement. In the meantime, I discovered a pretty annoying situation which made me switch back to markdown. If you have two links, one after another, and want to insert a regular text between them, you can't because it will be part of one of the links. I mean, you can, but have to add it and unlink it afterwards. And if you add more text, it will be linked too, so you have to unlink that one too. If you look at the markdown generated if you need to do something like this, it's pretty messy... @asgarth

Speaking of PeakD, they ended their ads experiment, without encouraging results.

Michael Garcia and the Useful Tools

Michael Garcia (@thecrazygm) explained at some point that creating and sharing some of the tools he does (even if they exist in other forms), is a way for him to learn to code on Hive.

I think he shared two interesting tools this week. One is a "liquidity bot", which allows to sell a token into another if the target price is met, and eventually automatically attempting to add them to a diesel pool (the example was with SWAP.HIVE and SIM).

The second one is a dividend projection tool which can be useful to dividend-based project owners/operators.

Two Stats for Curators and Witnesses

@techcoderx created a dashboard helpful for curators and for witnesses.

I took the liberty to create a Firefox extension based on his curation tool. I'll probably make at least one improvement (to store the information locally about the authors recently hovered over, so that the API isn't called repeatedly for the same user) and attempt to create an extension for Chromium tomorrow (don't know yet if there are any significant changes needed since this would be my first Chrome extension too).

Nine Reasons to Blog on Hive (for Everyone!)

If anyone had any doubts, or thought why should the masses come, well... here are some reasons, nine of them.

Games

Splinterlands Updates

Fun is good! 😄 We have an Yaba's Pickle card about to be released next week.

Ahonex auction market for Splinterlands cards seems to be catching on and continues to be developed.

The Future of Moon

Moon end-game condition was met a while ago, but players don't want to let go to Universe 1 just yet, apparently.

For a while, I set my production to zero, thinking Universe 2 was just around the corner. Seeing that won't be the case, and getting bored, I restarted doing some things with my little empire. Looks like my alliance turned into a mercantile one, seeking a new goal after the end game for the players still active.

In the meantime, it seems a State of the Moonion was held recently. With more details, reporting Eco.

Looks like Universe 2 will be seriously different than Universe 1. Multi-accounting will be permitted, so will settling for services provided outside the game (like via payment in other tokens). One thing that will still not be allowed will be pushing "up".

Yeah... It will be a complicated Universe... But I understand the game operators not wanting to play police anymore.

I also heard it'll be another month or so until Universe 2 will begin.

Holozing - Healer Tasks

We have more details on Holozing while we wait for gameplay. Yep, keep them coming!

Week in the Crypto World

Credit Cards with BTC Rewards

In the past (and to this day), we had websites offering debit or credit cards with rewards in their own token.

But I don't think we have many options which offer debit/credit cards with BTC rewards.

Apparently, Gemini offered one since 2021. I didn't know that.

Coinbase joins the party with an American Express-based credit card offering up to 4% BTC rewards.

Centralized Treasuries Control 31% of Bitcoin Supply

A study by Gemini and Glassnode quoted by different sources says that almost 31% of the BTC supply is currently held by ETFs, publicly-traded companies, or governments, an amount that rose by 924% over the last 10 years.

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