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Open Analytics, Shareable Embeds, and Funding Debates
The treasury conversation moved from theory to line items: @ecency posted a further cut to its funded proposal on global hot, @peakd published a sustainability case for its own, and witness @roelandp walked back a ChainCulture DHF ask after community pushback. Builders kept shipping anyway — @seattlea launched Hivelytics 2.0 as an open Hive Stats replacement, and the 3Speak TV stack merged a full week of viewer UX work.
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This Week on Hive
@ecency opened Friday on global hot with A Further Reduction to the Ecency Proposal — a follow-up to its Europe-and-open-source posts earlier in the week. The ask is straightforward: less daily HBD from the Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) for Ecency maintenance while the project keeps shipping search, mobile, and wallet updates. Voters saw budget math in plain posts, not buried in proposal JSON.
@asgarth kept PeakD moving on C/HiveDevs: custom feeds you can tune, tougher API handling when nodes lag, and a simpler Autovote setup for daily voting. A follow-up shipped embedded post previews so any PeakD post can render as a rich card off-platform — 229 HP and 348 votes on that update alone. @peakd also published a sustainability post on how the frontend keeps that pace funded; the product work landed first.
Witness @roelandp (rank 6) posted that ChainCulture will not seek DHF funding now — 61 comments, 709 votes — after listening to stakeholder feedback. That is governance as conversation, not a silent vote.
@seattlea launched Hivelytics 2.0 as a replacement path for Hive Stats. The launch paid 246 HP with 471 votes — a signal the community still rewards open analytics readers can actually open. A compare-authors refresh landed the same week.
The HBD debate from last week did not fade. @igormuba still topped payouts with 128 comments on the haircut thought experiment. A protocol pull request to scale DHF when HBD minting is suppressed stayed in the thread — prep talk, not a live hard fork. Print rate remains zero while about 1.9 million HIVE powered down versus 385,000 up.
For HBD mechanics and why print rate sits at zero, see issue #75. Six funded DHF lines remain above the return proposal, led by the HBD Stabilizer at 12,000 HBD per day.
Development Pulse
Core node: hive/hive added liquidity overflow protection and a fee-classification macro. Witnesses still run Hard Fork 28 (mostly v1.28.3). No new hard fork on mainnet.
hive.blog: hive/denser serves trending at the site root and returns clearer errors when a post fetch fails.
3Speak: Mantequilla-Soft merged better video cards, shorts navigation, snap carousels, and thumbnail fixes.
C/HiveDevs: @sagarkothari88 kept HiveSuite updates rolling. @thecrazygm introduced Pollen for JavaScript. @hdev shipped HivePulse v1.7.0. @keychain opened Multichain open beta.
Project Spotlights
Ecency: @ecency DHF reduction post plus Why We Built Ecency in Europe… and a social-account ownership explainer.
PeakD: @peakd sustainability proposal; @asgarth product updates on feeds and API resilience.
Hivelytics: @seattlea launch post and compare-authors refresh.
HiveSuite / HiveReactKit: @sagarkothari88 governance dashboard, profile editing, and wallet UX — daily dev cadence on HiveDevs.
3Speak / Mantequilla-Soft: @mantequilla-soft report #18 pairs with the GitHub TV and HiveSnaps merges above.
CuteHIVE Monitor: @cutehive.com v3.3.65 — account detail page and TXID search.
Games: @splinterlands Second Escalation Conflict · @liketu liketu Wild · @wrestorgonline WOO player titles live · @mydempire MydEmpire genesis update
Network Stats
| Metric | This week |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.0491 |
| HIVE market cap | ~$27.4M |
| HBD trading price | ~$0.97 (estimate) |
| HBD trading market cap | ~$9.5M (effective supply × peg) |
| CoinGecko rank | #693 |
| 24h change (HIVE) | +1.61% |
| HBD print rate | 0 (no new HBD minting) |
| HIVE powered up (7d) | 384,734 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down (7d) | 1,892,100 HIVE |
| Net stake change | −1,507,366 HIVE |
HBD explained: HBD is Hive's dollar token. When debt gets too high, the chain stops minting new HBD. Print rate zero means that pause is still on. Treasury HBD in @hive.fund does not count toward the debt ratio the same way user HBD does. Full explainer: issue #75.
Powering up: About 1.9 million HIVE powered down this week. About 385,000 powered up. @bcc led stakers at roughly 115,000 HIVE. The gap matches a week of long tokenomics debates.
Governance
Twenty of the top 21 witnesses run v1.28.3. @good-karma runs v1.28.6; @deathwing remains on v1.28.0. The network stays on Hard Fork 28.
Funded DHF proposals (paid above Return Proposal #0):
- #377 HBD Stabilizer, Renewal R2-2026: 12,000 HBD/day
- #368 Ecosystem Operations, Bizdev and Growth Retroactive: 1,000 HBD/day
- #350 Development of several new open source projects: 490 HBD/day
- #360 Hive Dev Proposal #2: 415 HBD/day
- #336 Ecency development and maintenance #5: 300 HBD/day
- #293 Hivewatchers and Spaminator Operational: 95 HBD/day
Ecency and PeakD both published proposal-context posts this week; the six funded lines on-chain were unchanged.
Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups
- Most powered up, 7 days: @bcc, 115,072 HIVE
- Most powered up, 7 days (2nd): @demotruk, 64,580 HIVE
- Total Hive powered up, 7 days: 384,734 HIVE
- Total Hive powered down, 7 days: 1,892,100 HIVE
Top Community Posts This Week
HP means Hive Power: the staked token weight behind author rewards, not "horsepower."
- 263 HP — @igormuba: Pretend the HBD haircut already happened… — 413 votes, 128 comments. Thought experiment on debt, witnesses, and what holders would do next.
- 246 HP — @seattlea: Introducing Hivelytics 2.0 or Replacement for Hive Stats — 471 votes, 53 comments. Open analytics stack launch.
- 230 HP — @igormuba: I opened a protocol PR: scale DHF payouts when HBD printing is suppressed — 461 votes, 98 comments. Protocol-level DHF scaling idea.
- 229 HP — @asgarth: PeakD update: Share posts as embedded previews — 348 votes, 30 comments. Shareable embeds for off-platform discovery.
- 210 HP — @thecrazygm: Pollen: A Safer, Cleaner Path Forward for Hive JavaScript Developers — 410 votes, 18 comments. New JS tooling pitch for Hive apps.
Don't miss
- @roelandp: ChainCulture DHF postponed after feedback — 709 votes, 61 comments
- @ecency: further Ecency proposal reduction — trending governance
- @x-rain: healthy Reddit account guide — 865 votes, 93 comments
- @plantfuljourney: When in Palermo — 417 votes, 19 comments
- @schmidi: first Vienna Hive hiking day
Top tippers (7d): @geneeverett, @gamingphoto, and @coinjoe led at roughly 1.7, 1.4, and 1.1 HBD tipped.
Posting streaks: @tarazkp (3,137 days), @bradleyarrow (2,512), @elizabethbit and @silvertop (2,483 each).
This is HiveToday #87, weekly coverage of the Hive blockchain ecosystem.
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