All previous attempts to bring established influencers to Hive have proven futile. Even during the peak of censorship in the COVID era, we were unable to onboard censored content creators.

Hive lacks a broad audience, is relatively complex, and also features its own form of censorship—albeit decentralized—through downvotes.

What’s unique now is that Hive can finally offer real value, even to popular Web2 celebrities. Web3 sites hosted by Waivio are highly competitive and provide features that traditional services like Wix, Squarespace, and others simply cannot match.

For example, https://nowayjosecuisineshop.com/ includes a recipe collection where Hive users can add dishes to their personal profiles by simply hearting them. If they visit other sites with recipes, they can continue building their collection the same way.

The same applies to products—just heart an item, and it’s automatically added to the shop section of your profile.

While this particular project does not use maps, https://missbitcoinshop.com/ features a map of all the businesses that accept crypto. Some projects also include custom newsfeeds tailored to the interests of their specific communities.

Social sites offer native rewards as well as sponsored rewards, and users can easily convert them into BTC, LTC, ETH, and other cryptocurrencies—directly on the branded site.

Other powerful features include predictive search, AI chatbots, and much more.

In the long term, the network effect will play a major role. Since all users are part of the Hive social network, they can follow and support each other across all these different sites—something completely unthinkable in the Web2 world.