I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1054 - My Liquidity Pool Evolution - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, June 16, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Like many of my fellow Hivers, I originally got myself involved with diesel/liquidity pools for the profits, by leveraging assets that I had available. Since I was focused only on the returns, once I got my bearings with working with them, I refocused my investing only on those pools that offered useful and valuable daily liquidity rewards, quickly removing my liquidity as soon as the liquidity rewards ended. That's how I'd been operating until fairly recently.

My deep dive into diesel/liquidity pools happened when the DRIP Project, in which I had invested heavily, abruptly and unexpectedly changed the token dynamics for DRIP, going from very good daily SWAP.HIVE payouts, to daily payouts in a non-equivalent amount of SPS. Since my main reason for investing so much into DRIP was precisely because of the daily SWAP.HIVE payouts, when that change was implemented, I began divesting from DRIP, and I started looking for any and all other good sources for SWAP.HIVE. Various liquidity pools, it turned out, were an excellent source of SWAP.HIVE, so my strong refocus from income tokens to liquidity pools commenced, with me investing several hundred dollars worth of assets into several key pools that offered good SWAP.HIVE payouts.

The deeper that I continued going into liquidity pools, however, my perspective also kept shifting and expanding, as I came to understand the pools at a deeper and more-whole level, and as such, why they were so incredibly useful, beneficial, and important, not only to the tokens in the liquidity pairs, but also for the whole token economy in the Ecosystem. With this greater clarity and understanding, a new stage of my journey with liquidity pools has recently begun, where pure profitability was relegated to a secondary position.

Starting with the assets in my wallet, many of which come to me from daily liquidity pool rewards, I began adding assets to a whole host of new pools, to test them out. This allowed me to reach the pool-fee payout threshold for some, but not others. I came to understand that the value of an asset in large part is determined by how easily it is exchangeable for other assets, which is exactly why liquidity pools exist, as they represent points of exchange between assets, so the more pool pairs, and liquidity in them, the better. From this new perspective, I began to focus on the pools where I had some assets, but not sufficient liquidity to trigger pool fees, to boost them past the payout threshold, one or two at a time. I specifically haven't excluded pools with very-low value assets or low liquidity, because my intention is to help make these low-value tokens more usable, and therefore valuable.

Over the last few weeks I've been adding several lower-value assets, especially game assets like BUDS, CROP, FLUX, HKWATER, PART, PSX, SCRAP, among others, to their respective pools, and getting them past their pool-fee thresholds. While I am working to generate returns in such pools, profit is not my primary motivation in adding liquidity to them, but rather to help add value to the tokens involved, and by extension, the token economy as a whole. This to me is investing in, and supporting the Hive ecosystem at a deeper level, with my ultimate pool goal being to add as much liquidity to as many different pools as possible. That will take some time, of course, but I'm a very focused and patient fellow, as I am with everything important, and a healthy token economy is exceedingly important indeed, I'd say.

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, a little after 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and some sunbathing on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn. When I was well sunned, I devoted some time and effort to repairing the internet connection in Halai Hapai/Quarta Quarters, though sadly I was not successful. It would seem that the entire ethernet line to Power Sharing needs to be traced out, to see if there are any damaged sections, which is a bit of a more involved project, so it will need to be relegated to another day. After my failed attempt at network repair, I went to the upper coco bar to chop and dump bad/used coconuts, and to tidy up the area a bit. Once I was done with the coco bar, I headed to the Landing to make myself some food (a simple grilled cheese, on sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and mixed mustards), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I returned to the Flow House to gently dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I was able to get everything done by just after 9:15PM, and after some asset management (mostly pools) and pool analysis, checking in on Blurt, and a long scan of my X feed, I went to bed just a little after 12AM. I woke up quite late, around 7:45AM, having slept quite well, doing more asset management, getting out of bed around 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then heading back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, so an excellent 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 focus first on photography, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation of these posts! 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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