Week through Adrian's Lenses (21-27 December 2024)

This is the #103rd edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.

I wish you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! See you in 2025 with the 104th edition of my news roundup report!

Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:

Hive

• New Listings
• Luxembourg
• Reddit
• Ghana Bootcamp
• Hive Run
• Project Diary
• Inleo
• Ezabay
• PeakD
• Golem Overlord
• Splinterlands
• dCity

Crypto

• Bitcoin

Week on Hive

12 of 25 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.

In the Spotlight

New Listings for HIVE

I think this is definitely the highlight of this week. After a spot listing for HIVE and a pair with USDT on the non-KYC exchange Hotcoin which started trading last week on December 18th, we had a number of CEXes announcing perpetual futures contracts for HIVE-USDT, launched either on December 23rd or on Christmas Eve. Coincidentally (or not), the Upbit pump started on December 23rd, at midnight UTC (time as usual).

Here are the CEXes which added perpetuals for HIVE (in order of announcements/reposts on Hive's official X account, apart from Binance, which I moved at the top for obvious reasons):

• Binance
• Bitget
• BitMEX
• SuperEx
• XT Exchange
• Bittrue
• BitKan
• Gate.io

Nothing was announced from our side other than sharing original tweets as far as I know, but I have to wonder if such coordination happened randomly, or if we (@crimsonclad?) helped it happen this way.

Marketing / Awareness / Branding

Offchain Luxembourg Onboards Local Politicians to Hive

We learn from their post that the Deputy Mayor of the City of Luxembourg and the City Alderman in charge of Budget and Finances have installed Hive Keychain and loaded HBD to spend in the city.

Now the challenge for Offchain Luxembourg is to onboard more local businesses. They already onboarded the @indies-cafe from the center of the city of Luxembourg.

@x-rain Shared Some Interesting Success Stories of Hive Content on Reddit

Potentially 2000 visitors per month coming from Reddit is a good start and has room to grow if we don't abuse "the system" by posting in the wrong subreddits, against the rules, spam or low-quality content (unless that's what the subreddit is about).

Check this out!

Planned Web3 Bootcamp in January in Ghana

@mcsamm unveiled the planned practical workshop to take place at the Valley View University in Kumasi, Ghana on January 10th, 2025.

Members of the Hive Run Community Celebrated the End of 2024...

... in a corporate-style, with a year-end bound-strengthening party.

Project Diary - Onboarding Creators to Hive in Indonesia

The 3rd part of Project Diary took place recently as an online meeting in Indonesia, with the goal of bringing potential new creators to Hive. 44 people participated to the online meeting with the rest to 65 who expressed their interest remaining to receive video and pdf materials.

Governance / Development / Dapps / Education

Inleo Re-Introduces Its Refer2Earn System

The referral system has been been live for a good while, but went through some changes based on feedback. This is an extensive presentation of the Refer2Earn system by the team, which should clear up most questions.

Ezabay Tutorial (Naira -> HBD)

Ezabay created a video guide which shows how to deposit Naira to Ezabay and then buy HBD with it so you can make purchases with Distriator (or use HBD any way you want).

PeakD Made 5 Updates to Its New AI Image Feature

Lowered price, more images, another model added, more info. That's the gist of the short post.

Games

Conquest Mode for Golem Overlord Is Now in Beta

There are quite a few changes which can be consulted in the announcement, but the one probably people expected was that the gates are now opened non-stop for ranked battles.

Splinterlands Received an Award

Splinterlands ended up in the 2nd position of the PlayToEarn Game Awards 2024, for Best Card Game, after Gods Unchained, and in front of Axie Infinity. Here's a tweet celebrating the award.

DCity Game Rewards Change

DCity announces a change of the maximum holding rewards to 150 HIVE, while they are consolidating assets from Splinterlands cards toward HP or BeeSwap liquidity.

They also added Young citizen rewards for HP delegations.

Week in the Crypto World

Bitcoin Predictions - Hit and Misses

I thought for our last edition of the year, linking such an article would be fun. To see how much off people were the longer the timespan from when the prediction was made till now, and how a few of them kind of nailed it much better in the second part of the year.

It's interesting that while a few of the predictions from the article have been unrealistic and needed to be adjusted much lower, my own take profit levels started too low and needed to be adjusted higher.

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