This is the #61st edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.
Let's see what we have for this week.
Week on Hive
19 of 36 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
I wasn't sure what to add to the spotlight section this week. There are quite a few technical announcements, but they are not easy to present in a way that is readable by regular users.
I decided to make quick references here to a few topics rather than a single one.
As you are probably aware, HiveSQL has been out of service for a couple of weeks, and that affected many projects throughout the ecosystem. This week it was brought back, and with it the other websites of arcange that were affected. Particularly HiveBuzz seems to have needed additional work (and apparently still does) to be fully operational and recover all the lost badges.
During these troubled times, @arcange found the energy to prepare the iOS version of HiveAuth Mobile, after the Android version has been available for a few months.
Hive Tech Conference in Ghana will happen tomorrow. Several posts were preparing the event on Hive, but I expect more of them post-event, so I'll only link to the latest.
Speaking about the HIVE-Bitcoin bridge, it looks like @brianoflondon is coordinating his developments of V4V.app with the developments on the VSC Network. On the latter, here's the recording of the X spaces AMA I didn't have to link for the previous week.
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Hive Goes to School Tour de Force
I was impressed by the number of locations Hive Goes to School went to recently. Check it out:
- 5 High Schools and 1 University through Maturín
- 4 Talks at the High School where Daniel Teaches Hive, Before the Tour
As a result, they are now in the eye of the media, both written and spoken:
- Interview in Maturín by Jefferson Civira from La Prensa de Monagas
- Curiousity about Hive Goes to School Grows. Daniel Was Invited to a Radio Show.
VIBES Contest Continues
I don't know if it's the love of music or the prizes or both, but this contest seems to have stirred quite some interest and some interesting collaborations outside Hive.
Week 4 is up, with a new guest judge.
Governance / Development / Dapps
Hive Core Devs Meeting
We have another recording of the meeting, this time without a transcript. Besides the usual tech talk, something stood out to me that was interesting. @mcfarhat from Actifit found a way to incentivize Binance users to join Hive (in return for HIVE and/or AFIT rewards), and it seems it worked very well. The question is how many will remain in the ecosystem after they take the rewards. Actifit is a special project they won't find easily in the crypto space, so maybe we'll have a decent retention.
Dedicated Bug Hunter and Fixer for INLEO
The team of INLEO grew by 1, and an important position that is, for a platform constantly changing where bugs surface all the time. They now have one developer whose job is to find and fix bugs and fix bugs found by the community.
That is an important step forward, as they are specialized in this and the other devs don't have to stop whatever else they were doing to fix bugs.
About this and other topics in INLEO AMA.
WAX: JavaScript & Python Library for HiveD
From my understanding, WAX works in multiple steps. First, it makes the API calls and builds transactions, and then, uses Beekeeper (which is a private key vault) to sign them and then broadcast them. Seems much more secure than many other ways of using private keys in scripts that I heard of. Here are the technical details.
Ecency Introduced 1-Click Login
By reading through the post, I understood the 1-click login happens after creating a new account, from the email link, but only for the first 7 days, after which a new access token would be generated. Still, that's a great improvement of the onboarding process.
Start Your Waivio Shop in 10 minutes!
I believe this is a guide most people can follow. It helps if you have had a website before, but it's not as technical as things get on Hive sometimes.
Hive as a Backbone for Scientific Communication
As a text database, Hive is definitely capable of that. This has been discussed for a long time on Hive (since the legacy chain), as the article mentions. Is scientific communication censored? Absolutely! Would a censorship-resistant platform help? For publishing articles that are otherwise censored, probably. Otherwise, it probably can't be an alternative to private and public research funding, which is how scientists get trapped and guided through certain channels rather than being able to publicly say when they discover something important.
Speaking of Hive as a database, the Hive Wiki project has been revived by @pharesim.
Games
Actifit Brings Another Use Case For Splinterlands Cards
By holding (owning or renting) 10 Splinterlands cards in your account, you get a boost in your AFIT rewards at every Actifit report, depending on the rarity of your cards. Read more here.
Philanthropy
Building a Bakery to Keep a School for People with Special Needs Running
Sometimes too many words don't help, but pictures do. What helps is doing something, as little as it's possible from our soon-to-become bull market bubble.
Week in the Crypto World
Interoperability Leveled Up: THORSwap Integrates Chainflip Liquidity Network
A few of the potential issues of inter-chain bridges are:
- custodial bridges
- centralized intermediaries
- wrapped tokens
I like it when various projects and protocols try and succeed in overcoming them. This is just one example.
Revolut Customers Can Buy Crypto on MetaMask
Revolut customers can now buy crypto on a self-custody wallet like Metamask (others will follow), using their new product Revolut Ramp. The product is obviously KYC-ed, but still, another important link between custodial and non-custodial wallets. Read more in their announcement.