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I always found the BRO token too expensive for their usecase but the price of the token put me off buying any which turned out ok for me in the end. But I have been thinking about Layer 2 tokens on Hive as I am currently researching it for a project myself. Which ones have genuinely worked out on Hive. I asked the question last week about how to make a good Community and the layer 2 tokens were a make or break for some people to join. I knew about this before when I made a football community and most of the football posters would not leave Sportstalk because they were earning Sports tokens. Now these were worthless but it was the perception that they would increase down the tracks which made some people stay in sports and not joing a football Community. 
 I look at many of these tokens on HE and they are worthless. What layer two tokens have worked out? It was @stayoutoftherz that said why don't the layer 2 communities just use Hive as their native token as many layer 2 tokens are just tokens with no usecase and everyone just ends up selling. Valid point from a clever bloke. 

Then I look at the tokens that have worked out. DEC, SPS are the two that spring to mind. SPS is probably our most successful token.  We have LEO that has worked out as well I would say although it migrated away from HE. Splinterlands also succeeded in use cases for VOUCHER and their Validator NODE and also their card tokens such as Alpha and Beta, Chaos etc. 

But what other Layer 2 tokens have worked out? I have lots of them in my wallet and most are pretty much worthless but I do not know of many that are still going strong. DCity seemed to have disappeared and the same developer designed BXT. Are these tokens now heading down the sewer also?

Just scrolling down the wallet here and I have the below list 
|Token| Comment|
|-|-|
|Zing |acidyos token - Game incoming. |
|WIT |Never heard of it |
|CL |Cublife, Gonzo |
|SPT |Splinterlands token for their Community. Never had value |
|PIZZA| Fun token|
|SPORTS| Token Worthless|
|PIMP| Fun coin I think|
|ARCHON| Around a while but don't know what it is|
|BXT| Beeswap token. is dev no longer with us?|
|VYB| Verifyyourbrian, not sure of the usecease. worth 3 cent. used to tag in my posts for tokens|
|CINE| TV & Cinema Community Token. Potential|
|MUSIC| Music Community Token. Not sure of usecase|
|CCC| Around a while but not sure what it does|
|Alive| Not Sure what it does|
|LOLZ| Comedy Coin|
|Beer| Fun Coin|
|MEME| Not sure what it does|
|CTP| Some affilate  advertising token. Not sure if still active|
|WINEX| Not sure|
|STEM | Stem Community token. Not sure of what it does |
|POB | Proof of brain token not sure what it does|

I would love if someone could let me know if their Community has a layer 2 token and its usecase. The most expensive token I have in my wallet is Zing at 32 cent. Maybe some Communities use their tokens for a usecase even though their tokens are not worth anything and they are happy this way. 
So is making a layer 2 token for a Community like a self fulfilling prophecy. Users won't join a Community without a Layer 2. Make a Layer 2 and users sell.  
I like my wine and when I visited vineyards in Franschhoek I asked the question. Does the bigger the dimple in the wine bottle make the wine more expensive.The answer was yes and no. Everyone thinks it does so they do it because of this. Wines without a dimple sell less. So they make sure theres a dimple. So HiVE Communities just make a layer 2 token. 

What do you think our most successful token is? Is there any unknown tokens that are doing a good job , has a use case but I am not aware of. When layer 2 tokens were established there was massive excitement but now its just mehhhh another token with no use case. Is this damaging Hive then many of these are worthless? It feels like a graveyard of the long forgotten. Use cases for tokens are actually hard to think up of without it being linked to upvoting and then we are getting into shady territory. It's a tough one. What do you think?