Wen though?

There are a LOT of developments going on in and around the Hive ecosystem.

I don't usually ask 'wen' like the rest of the common-folk, but when I do I'm impatient as hell! I think the real reason might be simply because the market is scraping the bottom hard and I want a reason to believe that number will go back up again before dipping even lower. Probably.

Games

• Ragnarok
  For me this one is pretty highly anticipated. A CCG that also employs strategy from both chess and poker? Pretty weird. But I'll likely be selected as an alpha tester. That should keep my mind off number go down! Wen?

• Splinterlands
  Lots of upgrades coming down the pipe for this one. Definitely need to stack up more SPS while it's still dirt cheap. Big transitions are coming that should make the game and its code exponentially more decentralized. The conversations I had with Matt about this were pretty exciting stuff. Wen?

• dCity/Rising-Star/HivePunks?
  Marky announced this airdrop between punks and dCity. Went to the site and saw there is also this 'Douglas' card for sale as well in Rising Star (never played). Nice to see that Punks is making connections and pushing forward utility use-cases. Wen?

• PsyberX
  I don't play first-person shooters because my shoulder injury doesn't really allow me to make those quick precise movements like that. There's lot's of skepticism around this project, but who cares? Let's add it to the list. Wen?

Hive Hardfork 26

Arguably this will be Hive's biggest hardfork in terms of value and utility. Hive Application Framework greatly smooths the transition to running super efficient smart contracts onto the second layer. RC delegations are absolutely required to scale up and prevent Sybil attack and delegation farming. Of course both HAF and RC delegations don't even require a hardfork... which leaves a basket full of other upgrades that I don't even know about.

One of these upgrades is the ability for Hive to make the head-block irreversible explicitly instead of waiting 15 blocks for implicit immutability. Doesn't sound like much, but it's huge for user experience in terms of instant gratification, and it's huge for dapps that require blocks to be immutable (will decrease lag from 45 seconds to 3 seconds).

I can't even remember all the other stuff that's coming into play.
Doesn't really matter though, this is still a lot.
Wen?

LEO ecosystem

• Polycub
  Wen collateralized vault loans?
  Wen governance?
  Wen bonds?
• Project Blank
  Doesn't even have a name.
  Should probably wait another year before asking wen.
  Wen though?
• CUB
  Wen IDO?
  Wen porting polycub code to upgrade CUB?

Interoperability

Hive is making connections to Bitcoin through the Lightning Network and Ethereum through Metamask. Being on an island is hard. We lack the infrastructure of the big boys. However, once we can open lines of communication and value to the top chains (and associated EVM chains) Hive will gain quite a bit of utility. Wen?

Conclusion

We're all watching the grass grow. There's a ton of projects being developed on Hive concurrently. It always takes longer than the estimates, but a lot of these things are going to get launched all at the same time. Hopefully we'll get to ride a nice wave after waiting 'patiently'. Wen?