I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1268 - Multi-Asset-Backed Tokens - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, January 16, 2026

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 16.68%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.108 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.979 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.09973752 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00160238 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.178497 USD 

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003293 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 95,260.15 USD 

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 593.86 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 75.22 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,602.00 USD   

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 90.26 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #140 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#109 (among active witnesses only)/272.1K HP in votes/40 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

One of the great challenges and uncertainties that arises around layer-2 tokens, both for those who create and manage them, and for those who invest in them, is when they are backed by only a single asset, because if that backing asset loses value or crashes, then the value of the backed token erodes in equal measure. It's for this reason that in my asset-management endeavors to add ever greater value to our ALIVE token, and now to Ben's HEARTBEAT token as well, my focus has been on creating and growing income streams in a diverse array of useful and valuable layer-2 assets, both to distribute to the community, and to further back the value of our tokens.

Regarding the Hive-Engine layer-2 assets used to back our tokens' value, there are two types to which I give much higher priority, tokens that are run and managed by solid, committed, dedicated, consistent, and trustworthy allied people and projects, and those that are pegged to the value of off-chain assets from other blockchains, like SWAP.BTC, SWAP.LTC, SWAP.BCH, and SWAP.BLURT, among others. This dual-imvestment strategy, especially with a good balance and diversity of each type of asset, provides much greater price stability and security for a backed token, as there are just more legs to hold up the table, so to speak.

For ALIVE and HEARTBEAT I'm working to generate many solid streams of useful-and-valuable tokens that can be used to distribute to the community, as well as of those to hold/stake and grow for backing value. Although I'm much further along with this for ALIVE than for HEARTBEAT, since I just started, I've already made some good headway, thanks to the 200 HIVE/SWAP.HIVE that Ben's sent so far.

Select diesel/liquidity pools are incredibly useful tools for genrating and growing daily income streams in a whole host of desirable tokens, many of which can be leveraged in other pools as well, so that's where I'm diving in first for HEARTBEAT. In the process, I'm also working to create a substantial daily SWAP.HIVE income, with which I can then use to begin acquiring assets like HSBIDAO, HELIOS, DAB, DBOND, RUG, among several others, as I progress.

Ben also mentioned that HEARTBEAT will be backed by the RWA (Real World Asset) of silver as well, for which he'll create NFTs, so we're going even beyond the crypto world, to make certain that any token that we create and manage will be backed by a diverse array of value-holding assets. You have my word as your loyal community asset manager that I'll do my absolute best to make our tokens, ALIVE and HEARTBEAT, well worth your time and investment.

Yesterday, Friday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by around 12:30PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. We had a freak polar blast from the north yesterday, so it was much colder than usual the whole day, which was not ideal for giving sessions at all, but we worked with what we had. The session started slightly late, it went very well, and we wrapped it up by around 5:30PM, after which I headed to the Landing to make myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned beef burgers, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard), and to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before returning to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I paused that for a short time, since Harmony successfully enticed me to go down to Tutu's to share some durian with several other people in the community. I got back the Flow House by about 8:30PM, and even though I worked diligently, I wasn't able to get through my massive pile of notifications for a second day in a row. I had to make myself stop by just before 11:30PM, to do some asset management, and then to go to bed, way too late, just before 12AM. I woke up just after 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then heading back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 12:45PM, so it's quite a good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE

and

ALIVE:ALIVEM

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