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This is the #122nd 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
- HiveFest 10
- Hive Creator Days
- Splinterlands
- DigiByte
- Reputation System
- HiveTools
- Moon
- StakeHouse Den
- Crownrend
Crypto
- Trade Talks US-China / Crypto Green
- Thorchain
Week on Hive
16 of 27 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup. A couple of them may be cross-posted exclusively in the Hive News community.
In the Spotlight
Hive Fest 10 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Last Friday, after my last check on the news in the morning(ish), the location and period for Hive Fest 10 was announced by RoelandP. In fact, he made the announcement publicly live at Hive Creator Days in Graz at the same time as publishing it on-chain.
Hive Fest 10 will be hosted in the exotic Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in the period 15-19 October, so there are a little over 5 months until then to prepare for Hivers who want and can participate.
@louis88 - who has been in Malaysia once - is hyped by the location and can't wait to get there. In the meantime, he's developing a small photo tool for participants.
Want to talk about Hive Fest 10 and / or about Hive Creator Days from Graz? You may want to participate to Hive Humpday Hangout in Ecency discord later today at 5pm UTC where my friend @ph1102 invites anyone who wants/can attend almost every week.
Marketing / Awareness / Branding / Meetings
Splinterlands Google App and Other Updates
Looks like Splinterlands got the first version of their new Google app out. They say it still needs some tweaks, but they want to finish it by the time general sale for Conclave Arcana starts, which is only a few days away.
In the meantime, only 4 days until the presale is over. Looks like most cards have been finalized and loaded on the Mavericks server. You can see a list of them and the new abilities here. No guarantees there won't be any changes until the packs could be opened on May 13th. If you want to see Conclave Arcana cards in action, here's a recording.
There is also a new Card Packs page in Splinterlands which lists all packs that have been sold by Splinterlands since the game was launched. It's interesting to note that except Chaos Legion and Riftwatchers, all packs seem to have a higher price in the NCM than the one they were sold for, some way higher.
DigiByte Got Onboarded to Hive by Inleo
DigiByte, a PoW blockchain that has been around since 2014 and which shares Hive's focus on freedom and decentralization and the fact that there is no company behind them, and which looks like quite a few Hive OGs remember using in their early crypto history, made a Hive account through Inleo and a Hive community and became active. This is their intro post.
@crimsonclad got involved (she is also the mod on their new community), and they had an X space which I discovered this morning but didn't listen to it yet.
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
Improving Reputation System?
We know the current reputation system is more or less a function of the author rewards one earned over time. Not exactly that, but that's a close approximation of what's going on.
Recently, there have been various public discussions for improving it, concretized with a proposed whitepaper of a human-curated reputation. Another relevant post is here. And also, this Jabber Talkie episode.
What we have to be careful when introducing any new system would be to attempt to make it more relevant, easy to understand, and not easily gameable. Probably very difficult to have all these 3 goals focused on with the same energy and effectiveness.
HiveTools Is Growing
More tools are added to HiveTools. What's even better is that some of them help users solve problems they faced, for which they couldn't find a solution using other tools or interfaces.
Games
Moon: What to Expect Next?
If you are a Moon player, you're probably wondering what are the plans for the future. Looks like we'll find out more on May 12th, but we have some info until then too (note that I didn't have the chance to listen to the recording at the end yet).
StakeHouse Den - Pack Opening
One of the newest games on the Arcade Colony platform, StakeHouse Den - an online social casino type of card game - had a pack presale and now entered general sale. At the same time, purchased packs can now be opened and a few casino games can be tested. More details can be found on the Arcade Colony discord.
Crownrend's Future Plans
It appears that a few changes are coming to Crownrend. Some sooner, others later. But it is encouraging to see development and adaptation to changing conditions from the "real world", once the game was launched and running for a while.
Week in the Crypto World
Crypto Market Green as High-Level Trade Discussions Between the US and China Are Announced
BTC is at 97k on the background of coming high-level talks between United States and China on the trade war this week-end. We have no idea what the outcome of the talks will be, but it can't be worse than it is. Practically, as it is now, it is very unlikely that anything is moving between the US and China on the trade side.
ThorChain Just Launched the TCY Token
TCY is a new token on ThorChain launched on May 5th, slated to address the default of ThorFi lending and savers platform at the beginning of the year. 10% of the fees collected on Thorchain will go toward the new token, which can be claimed by the investors who had funds locked in ThorFi when it collapsed. I am not one of them, but heard quite a bit about it lately. Here's the official post from Thorchain, I think.
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