Ethereum is popular and used by most developers because of smart contract. Bitcoin has value because of fixed supply and acceptance of merchants.
Hive is actually born in 2017. Hardfork is not the new hive. For three years of development hive (I mean steem )has good progress. By creating hive engines. For developers hive engines should be perfect tool to deploy some new dapps based on hive network.
Working on increasing price will be worthless because hive is unlimited supply tokens. The issuance is based on the rate of inflation.
Lifting hive by smart contract.
One way to lift the value and prestige of hive is via smart contract. It is proven with leo project. Leo becomes the most attention project in hive network. Why don't other projects follow leo path? This is a homework for hive developers.
Authors are free promotors.
Hive biggest asset are stakers, miners and authors. To run a project, a developers team should have strong marketing. When the project is futuristic, authors will review the project voluntarily. The review becomes free marketing tool.
Do not focus on reward system.
The current reward system is perfect in my opinion so that discussion about it should be halted.
Investor are looking for out of the box concept how cryptocurrency will give as much as benefit to real life. Working on reward system is good but developing more function of hive network is better in my opinion