working on the things that are most valuable to Hive such as: light accounts, smart contracts, a messaging system, and more.

Hive account@peak.open has a dev working on an open source encrypted messaging system for all apps to use. As well as a bunch of other open source items.

Seems like there is a lot of interest in HAF related features but haven't seen much being built on it yet but seems like there is a lot of possibility.

If you're working to rebuild trust and are gonna just work on random things in the meantime I look forward to seeing what you do... i'd suggest some smaller items for starter