Changes are happening all over the world. As we celebrate our 5th anniversary as Hive and are approaching a decade as a community we continue to push the boundaries of blockchain possibilities and technical excellence. Over the years through dedication, ingenuity and perseverance, the Hive community has built a true beacon of Web3. The Hive ecosystem is a vibrant embodiment of decentralization and accessibility and it is all of us here on Hive who have collectively made it happen.
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Revolutionary Web3
Hive was created out of the love for decentralization and digital freedom. Unlike its competitors, Hive was never about the money. Hive is all about the vision. About true Web3.
All of us take special pride in Hive. Hive is built by its users for its users with no corporate influence. It rose out of the flames of an unprecedented attack on decentralization and open source principles and has from that time vowed to champion those key tenets and ensure that corporate greed has no place in its segment of Web3. The Hive community was not for sale five years ago and it never will be. No single entity has control of Hive -- it is decentralized, auditable, transparent, and barrier-less. It is a beacon of creativity, innovation and endurance among the greater blockchain-based technologies landscape and the cryptosphere. Its ecosystem has flourished organically, with myriad dapps, services and solutions for every need, from sharing videos to buying dinner.
Hive is built to last. Growth on Hive has never been about financial gains but always about exploring new opportunities to pursue innovation and build the best Web3 experience possible. Integrations, partnerships and onboarding all constitute the key milestones required to promote mass adoption. Not only do they allow new users to discover Hive but they also provide a gateway into data ownership and personal freedom and actualization.
“Hive makes an escape route possible,” wrote one Hive community member. “Not just from being an early adopter, but also because you can earn it by participating in the game. You make a post, you might get some HIVE. Once you have some Hive Power, you can vote that power and earn HIVE. This is what makes Hive different than most any of the other cryptos on offer, distribution is built into the first layer. You don't need a rack of servers or 4 digit electric bills to mine some hive, just something to say, the ability to type it out, and some networking for friends.”
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Hive Changes Lives
Hive has consistently remained resilient despite being faced first with COVID-related challenges and then a highly-volatile market, which still persists. Despite this, it is listed on over 40 exchanges and both HBD and HIVE are used as currency for B2B and B2C transactions worldwide. Hive has come from wondering what can be done with it in terms of use-cases to being welcomed in everything from grocery stores to entertainment venues to real-estate as the preferred cryptocurrency. Purchases can already be made without delay with only a phone with the help of the Hive Keychain and Distriator and now Hive Debit Cards are becoming available. The Virtual Smart Chain (VSC) is also currently in the final stages just edging towards launch, making integrations even more seamless.
Hive brought tangible change to the world. Freedom of expression is a universal human right along with an adequate standard of living. The Hive community does not wait for change to happen; it makes change happen. Hive community members brought water to remote villages in Ghana, Venezuela and Nigeria. In Ghana, the twentieth well is presently being constructed. Ordinary people who had no understanding of the true capabilities of blockchain technology and parallel economies are seeing their effects when their own neighbors have successfully used Hive to resolve problems in weeks that the local governments failed to tackle over decades.
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Feeless and Limitless
Hive is currently positioned as one of the most accessible blockchains to develop on. It makes development simple and fast. It has been transformed from the baseline DPoS blockchain technology it started out as into a light-weight solution suitable for any project or industry application. It did this while improving on security mechanisms to ensure that data integrity and decentralization remain paramount.
Hive has not only improved on existing DPoS technology but has made it truly limitless by crafting an extensive layer-2 capability and supporting cross-chain integrations. The HAF API Note Suite now bundles together the innovative Hive Application Framework (HAF) with HAF Account History (HAFAH), Hived (core protocol), Hivemind, a block explorer and more. While Hive sports 3 second blocks, its one block irreversibility (OBI) means that confirmation is near-instant, making transactions final without any waiting. Every part of Hive has been continuously optimized to limit the required resources in relation to all types of transactions and to lower the infrastructure requirements to run the most complex of operations. Everything is designed for scalability and efficiency.
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Changes are happening and changes are also sought after here on Hive too. We look forward to the next five years as we make those changes and pave new roads through Web3. Hive on!