This week, the Web3 news is strikingly progressive. Let’s take a quick look.
🧩 Major Highlights
Ripple has announced a new Japan and Korea-focused fund offering up to $200,000 per project to accelerate development on the XRP Ledger. The fund targets projects in asset tokenization, payments, and DeFi, with support from Web3 Salon and JETRO. This move reinforces Japan’s growing status as a regional hub for Web3 innovation.
The total value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) has surpassed $23 billion, up 260% year-to-date. This surge is fueled by growing regulatory clarity in the U.S. and Europe and institutional adoption of asset-backed tokens, such as tokenized treasuries, commodities, and real estate, marking a major shift from speculative coins to utility-driven Web3 use cases.
OpenLedger has unveiled OpenCircle, a $25 million launchpad aimed at funding developers building decentralized AI protocols on Web3 infrastructure. The initiative follows its $8 million seed round and a partnership with Ether.fi, aiming to democratize AI development—developers and data providers can now share in the value they help create.
🌐 Broader Trends & Context
- U.S. Regulation Watch: The CLARITY Act, expected to be discussed June 10 in the House, could define DeFi and provide new guidance on crypto staking, potentially reshaping the U.S. Web3 landscape.
- Mainstream financial firms accelerate Web3 adoption: Institutions such as Tradeweb, BlackRock‑backed Securitize, and Goldman Sachs increasingly integrate tokenization and DLT into core services, adding serious traction and legitimacy to Web3 infrastructure.
- Web3 + AI Fusion: WEF estimates $3.5 trillion value potential by 2028 as AI converges with DePIN, echoing a key trend in the space.
💰🐝 Hive $$$: Last Month’s Web3 Earnings
For over two years, I’ve been manually tracking the Web3 earnings I’ve made on each Web3 social media platform on which I publish content. I’ve slowly narrowed my focus to Hive. Why? Because shows the most consistent and highest earnings for me.
Every. Single. Month.
Last month, here’s what I earned posting to Hive 2-3 times a week:
- Hive Power (HP) earnings = $14.7341894
- Hive-Backed Dollar (HBD) earnings = $11.87382
- HBD Savings Account earnings = $26.71686
I’d earn more HP if I converted some of my HBD Savings into liquid Hive and powered it up. But the HBD savings is set-and-forget money. I drop HBD into a savings account earning 15% interest and claim my earnings every month. What I claim goes back into the account to earn more interest. I’ll keep doing that as long as the interest rate is at 15%. If Witnesses ever lower it, I’ll consider converting it to HP and powering up.
In addition to HP and HBD, I earned 1003.696 Ecency Points (EP) and 55.622 LEO tokens.
The EPs have little monetary value, but I use them to promote my posts, which boosts my HP and HBD earnings. The LEO tokens are layer-2 (L2) tokens I earn while using the InLeo interface to post my content, which I now use almost exclusively.
Additionally, I hold 70 more L2 tokens. While I don’t track how much I earn of each of those in USD value, I do know that, as of today, my L2 portfolio on Hive is worth $35.064.
If you haven’t noticed, I’m sold on Hive and InLeo for writers. If you’re a writer and you want to earn from your writing, even if you’re not into crypto, you’ll do better on Hive/InLeo than you will on Medium. Trust me. I’ve tried that too.
Want to learn more? Check out my book Web3 Social: How Creators Are Changing the World Wide Web (And You Can Too!).
First published at Substack. Lead image by Whisk.
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