I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1001 - @graphene-swap, an Excellent Cross-Blockchain Swap Service - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, April 24, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I've been settling in and exploring the Blurt blockchain, I've been seeking out easy and quickly ways to send assets between Hive and Blurt, as well as between Hive and Steem, since I also intend to get started on that progenitor blockchain as well. After a fair bit of investigation, I'm happy to say that I found one service/tool that works well for transferring assets between all three of them, @graphene-swap. This exceedingly useful cross-blockchain service, which has the same account name on all three blockchains, also has another another very cool use that I discovered in my research, swapping between HBD and SWAP.HBD (this can also be done easily via @sw4p,and for a lower 0.4% fee). I'll talk more about that last one in a moment. First I want to explain how to use @graphene-swap, no matter on which blockchain you'd like to send or receive assets.

From several web searches, scanning @graphene-swap's layer-2 token transactions here on Hive, and a test run this morning, I can say that the service works great, is fairly quick, and the format to swap tokens across chains, or between HBD-SWAP.HBD on Hive, is quite simple and easy. I sent two small test swaps of 5 BLURT each from Blurt to Hive around an hour ago (one to @graphene-swap, and the other to @blurt-swap), and about 10 minutes later I received 4.9625 SWAP.BLURT on Hive Engine (so the swap fee is 0.75%) from @graphene-swap. The other test swap sent to @blurt-swap (on Blurt) seems to have failed, as I so far have not received anything from that swap service. Oh well, now I know. At least the most useful and versatile service does work.

Since neither Blurt nor Steem have a layer 2, Hive is the hub for sending assets between Blurt and Steem, which can of course be done natively on Hive Engine from the 'Withdraw' feature on the 'Wallet' page, but @graphene-swap offers an alternative way to do it, and for the same 0.75% fee (@sw4p is better, with a 0.4% fee). Regardless of the method, sending assets between Hive, Blurt, and Steem is an easy process.

Given that I'm very Hive-focused in my operations, I'll share how to transfer assets between Hive and Blurt, and between Hive and Steem. So if I'm on Hive, and I want to send SWAP.BLURT to Blurt, or SWAP.STEEM to Steem, I'd send the amount of SWAP.BLURT or SWAP.STEEM (which can be bought on the market, or swapped from SWAP.HIVE via the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BLURT and SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.STEEM diesel/liquidity pools) that I want to swap to @graphene-swap, with the the following in the memo field (I'm using my own account name as an example, add the name of your account to which you'd like to send these assets, without the @): BLURT tydynrain to send to Blurt, and STEEM tydynrain to send to Steem. The assets that you want to receive goes first, in all capital, followed by a space, and then the account name where you intend to send it.

To reverse the process, and send assets from Blurt or Steem to Hive, using the the @graphene-swap account on those respective blockchains, the memo-field format is as follows: SWAP.BLURT tydynrain to send from Blurt, and SWAP.STEEM tydynrain to send to Steem. Now about swapping between HBD and SWAP.HBD on Hive. The memo-field format is the same, first goes the asset that you want to receive, followed by a space, and then the account name to where you want to send it, without the @ symbol, so: HBD tydynrain to swap from SWAP.HBD to HBD, and SWAP.HBD tydynrain to swap from HBD to SWAP.HBD. Now that I'm aware of this badass service, I'll certainly be making use of it a good deal moving forward. Since I'm doing very well on Blurt too, and I'm growing quickly there, I'll periodically sending a portion of my liquid Blurt to Hive to add to the SWAP.BLURT diesel/liquidity pools, which will give me a daily payout of BLURT, on Blurt. It seems rather appropriate and fitting to use BLURT that I earn on Blurt, to fund liquidity for the SWAP.BLURT pools on Hive Engine, which will then benefit me on Blurt. That works quite well I'd say!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, once I had finished up my Hive tasks, just a little after 2PM, focusing first on photography for these posts, and straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing. When I had those done, I went to do a good weeding in the small garden next to Tutu's, which was becoming buried in weeds. Although there was a lot more to do, the garden was far better than before I started. After working in the garden for a while, I made my way back to the other side of the property to take a shower, collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and then head back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I had a lot of them last night, so I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop just before 11:30PM, to do some asset management, more investigation into @graphene-swap, a quick check on my Blurt notifications, finally going to bed, way too late, just before 1AM. I woke up a bit after 7AM, still feeling like I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, beginning on this post, and then getting out of bed around 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, before returning to the Flow House, to do my test runs with @graphene-swap, and to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, so it's a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to dive into some photography for these posts first, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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