The bull run is accelerating, [ETH is pampin'](https://peakd.com/hive/@abrockman/emp-money-or-were-so-back-vaults-are-live-and-eth-pampin) and all signs point towards a bright and brilliant future! We have been through a deep bear, building and overcoming obstacles, but the most important thing to note - to quote: > "We are still here!" ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/abrockman/EogLvm2fUzxDR5ZybbE7GU6Ztyf7fFz7rVR3caGswaqQntHuuigyedptUX91tjjmNuf.png)

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As part of being here, we are also "participating" in an age old tradition, and that is purchasing stake in the network. We did [HIVE power up Day](https://peakd.com/hive-122221/@abrockman/8700-hive-powered-up), and we will likely keep doing them - but with this recent excitement of Conclave Arcana Presale, we were a bit miffed to get triple sniped and moved from 4th to 7th in literally the last minute. But worry not, in response we have - POWERED UP MORE HIVE! ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/abrockman/23wgoGsNhGm7XFRst27Q7zmJguvsiDcZCMDxAmG2sqDS6SJ4U6K3nLMXzxmW6WqEhwYwH.png) Tomorrow Conclave "officially" starts - there is a lot of work to do opening all those packs. And there is churn, we love Splinterlands and all that they are working on and rolling out - we love it so much we came in 7th in the presale, together with a small pool of friends we put in over 55 thousands dollars and burned over 800 thousand personal SPS to do so. ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/abrockman/23tvAjRsjkn3B7xGrK9GvyzwhABzGwtBYn8QiGnCqAe5dYY7GNACWV8xS6bqjg89Cxc57.png) This is not against HIVE, we believe that the success of Splinterlands only deepens our "proof of concept" that HIVE is a powerful blockchain, with powerful possibilities to build on. We are supporters of many projects on HIVE, and have been paying more attention to HIVE recently this year as we believe that "alt season IS coming". And if alt season is coming, well then its the builders - the doers and the determined folk who never stop having good ideas and executing and experimenting on them - who will benefit. And likely a lot of these will be building on HIVE. So from us to you, our happy conglomerate to all you Hivers out there - keep building! Keep powering up!