"So far we havent seen many cases of using crypto for anything other than an investment tool, transfer of value or worse pure speculation."
investment tool, transfer of value, and pure speculation cannot scale on other cryptos, byteball can.
What is wrong of been an investment tool, or transfer of value, or speculate?
These peolple are part of a community, they have something to do.
At least they are not mining and burning earth resourses.
So what is the plan adopt the wcg people, donate coin to hunger venezuelan, give 10 % discount for turist in Milan?
Try to gain some market share of the crypto space, It is where we are right now. Think about filantropic later