Week through Adrian's Lenses (08-14 March 2025)
This is the #114th 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
- Land 1.75
- Conferences
- Hive Core
- Inleo
- Hive Debit Card
- Good-Karma
- AI Hive queries
- identity theft?
- Splinterlands
- Astral Wars
- WOO
- Exode
Crypto
- Binance
- Ripple
Week on Hive
13 of 28 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
Land 1.75 Is Coming Next Week to Splinterlands
This is a major upgrade for the Land Expansion in Splinterlands, with a couple of elements that will impact the land and Splinterlands economy in a significant way.
Three new resources will be added to Land 1.75 (Wood, Stone, and Iron), which will be much more scarce than Grain, with Iron being the scarcest. All 4 resources will be needed to harvest SPS or Research!
Worksites will become terrain-dependent, as per the whitepaper, and Grain worksites will auto-convert to the respective Wood, Stone, or Iron worksites at the first harvest after the release of Land 1.75.
With this release we will also have LPs associated with each of the new resources (paired with DEC, same as Grain). There will be possible direct resource-to-resource swaps, which internally will go through the respective LPs paired with DEC.
In Land 1.75, LP providers will be able to see their own fees earned, which was something missing in previously.
Note that nobody will have any Wood, Stone, and Iron at first, so it's likely you won't find any on the market for a while, or not at acceptable prices. Plan accordingly, if you need to harvest Research or SPS!
Here's the official announcement.
More Splinterlands updates in the games section below...
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Conferences, Hackathons...
From a post blending wishes of International Women's Day and presenting next major events where Hive would be present, we learned of the 3 major events where Hive was going to participate.
TRYST'25 and Web3 Amsterdam have been this week, the former in India, and the latter in the Netherlands.
At TRYST'25, Hive was present with a booth, a darts game, and, perhaps more importantly, since it was a tech conference, a hackathon. I don't know yet of any info from there, after the event.
@crimsonclad was at Web3 Amsterdam, where we also had the CBRS guys, Roeland, and Alessandra White. Joel from Dash was also there. Check this out for a better image.
And finally, Hive will also be present between 21-24 April at Talent Land in Guadalajara, Mexico, where Hive will also have the main stage. If you remember, last year, this event had over 40000 registered participants.
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
Hive Core Developers Meeting
A new, longer than usual Hive Core Devs Meeting took place this week. @howo finished the Rosetta/Mesh API which will be submitted to Coinbase soon.
A new Hive software stack release (1.27.10) is prepared which will impact pretty much everything except consensus.
HF28 is planned to be delayed by several months, because it doesn't include anything that makes a difference currently. In the meantime, they want to include work on transaction signing mechanisms, adding support for 2nd layer signing, "light accounts", and BLS is considered for multisig.
@spiritsurge also presented at the end something they've been working on to see the onboarding metrics for 2024, also looking into evaluating the quality of onboarded accounts by stake levels for the future. He shared a link in the chat of the discussion, but I don't know what that is.
You can listen to the recording or read the AI-generated summary here.
INLEO Open Sources Its Onboarding Framework
This includes creating full Hive accounts via Keystore, lite accounts via Google and X, as well as their resource credits allocation for new users (and further, the balancing process, based on account usage - not sure if that was open sourced). They also created API endpoints for whoever wants to use their Hive onboarding framework without wanting to maintain a separate codebase.
I guess this can be considered pretty important for the Hive ecosystem, right? This is the announcement. Those interested should read the entire post.
Hive Debit Technical Details
Probably in support of the recent DHF proposal, a post describing the technical details for the Hive Debit card has been published. The last section regarding risks and mitigation strategies should be read by anyone interested in using Hive Debit cards.
Good-Karma Interview about Ecency Development
Deep Web3 Secrets had Good-Karma as a guest for its 10th episode. I forgot to listen to it, but I will... You can have a few pointers on what has been discussed from the post linked above.
Natural Language Queries to HiveSQL in Discord?
This script by @vaipraonde seems to do just that, linking HiveSQL as the database, an AI model as a translator between natural language and SQL and Discord as a user interface.
Watch Out Who You Curate...
This is a concerning investigation by @discovery-it about a very likely identity theft, by all indications.
Games
Other Splinterlands Updates
New Voucher Card
On the same day with Land 1.75, a new card purchasable with vouchers is launched: Kelan Gaines.
This will be the final Rebellion voucher card, and it will be a dual-element (dragon/death) magic-attack rare card, each BCX costing 100 vouchers.
End of Daily Rentals
Daily rentals will be phased out. If they are rented out, they'll continue until the term runs out, but then new daily rentals won't be possible, only season rentals. Daily rentals on the market after the update won't be rentable anymore.
Astral Wars Review of 2024 and Roadmap
I find it interesting that they created a Windows Launcher capable of supporting multiple games, one of them probably being Astral Wars. They promote the platform they've been building as a Steam for Hive (i.e. the game platform, not the one with double "e").
I probably don't know enough on the subject, so if you are interested, I invite you to read their announcement.
WOO Update
WOO launched NFT ticket redemption to WOO tokens, and talked about what's next in this game update.
Exode: Food Crafting
This is quite rare, a video from Exode, to describe the new feature to craft your own food.
Week in the Crypto World
Binance Receives a Strategic Investment from a Company with Major Investments into AI
MGX invested $2 billion to become a minority shareholder in Binance, being the largest single investment in crypto ever, also the largest investment via stablecoins, and the first institutional investment in Binance, as the official announcement lets us know.
Pay attention to this: MGX is an tech investment company from Abu Dhabi, focused on accelerating the development and adoption of AI and advanced technologies, and this is its first investment into crypto.
Speaking of the UAE,
Ripple Secures License to Offer Regulated Crypto Payments in the UAE
That's more to remark how fast the Middle East is moving on crypto. Here's the article, if you want to read more.
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It is the first time i heard about HiveSQL thanks for the info
It's been around for a very long time. Very useful if you know a little SQL and want to query some information about the Hive blockchain.
Also used by certain projects to query information they display to users.
removing the daily rentals will in the game will be quite challenging to some
Yes, probably. But wasn't a SPS proposal passed for that? Either way, they'll have to adapt.
Seems to me that Hive’s presence at these conferences is more about building connections for future opportunities, especially for developers and businesses. I agree though, I would love to see more sign ups from the events man
That's my impression as well. With the right connections and potential future collabs, this could be worth even more than a number of new sign ups.
absolutely man absolutely
Splinterlands got too complex for my liking. It seems too much like work now.
All these conferences that Hive is at ought to result in some sign-ups, but I've not heard of many.
!BEER
It is, especially when you first set them up. Afterwards, it depends how you play. If you play exclusively yourself, it is more like a job... And I wouldn't like that either.
You have a point. However, the 2nd reason for being at such conferences is to promote Hive as a business opportunity. Initial contacts for B2B potential ventures, or entrepreneurs, or developers becoming interested, more than sign-ups of regular users.
But I'm not sure how much of that we have at these conferences either.
The update from Splinterlands is a good one, the devs are trying. I love hive's participation in the conferences and the hackathon, gives hive more visibility and drives traffic. Thanks for the update.
I have more expectations from the hackathon than conferences. Maybe one or a few devs could become interested. Although, with the scarceness of funded proposals, they may look for alternatives.
Thanks for including us in your review, we're glad our work was useful!
You're welcome! It isn't easy to spot such inadvertence, unless you really pay attention. This was important to be made public, especially since it was a high reputation account with good earnings.
that identity theft has been a good catch, almost 3 years and lot of hive farmed
I agree. As I replied to their comment, it's not easy to catch that kind of issues with the narrative, unless you really pay attention and start investigating.
It sucks to see the identity theft, but I think its a common story here on Hive.
It's nice to see that Splinterlands is releasing a new card to buy with VOUCHERS. I didn't know that it was happening.
It may be more common than I realize. I understand if someone wants to stay anonymous or semi-anonymous. I don't have any understanding if they do it by assuming someone else's identity, doing two bad things at once: the identity theft itself, and falsely posting personal stuff around that persona, knowing that usually attracts more rewards.
Yep. It seems a good card too. Very good at max level. Too bad I don't have enough vouchers to max it out. I'll probably buy to have more at lower levels, in this case.
the Land 1.75 update on Splinterlands is a very big news
It is, but affects a small number of players, the land owners.
It is a good thing that the technical details for Hive debit has been released