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Ecency Taught the On-Ramp While Frontends Shipped New Affordance
@ecency kept the ownership education series going with guides on communities, Waves for people leaving X or Threads, creator earnings, keys, and moving a blog on-chain. The same week @asgarth shipped PeakD Affinity and Klipy GIFs, hive.blog opened AI search and privacy-first video embeds, and more top witnesses rolled onto 1.28.7. Net stake still favored exits: about 2.37 million HIVE powered down versus 1.14 million up.
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This Week on Hive
The onboarding story stayed practical. @ecency framed Waves as a place to keep an audience when leaving X or Threads. Sister posts walked communities, how creators earn, keys instead of passwords, and moving a blog without losing readers. That is five plain-language posts in one week — not a feature dump.
Frontends matched the education beat with shipping. @asgarth's PeakD update brought Affinity scoring, Klipy GIFs, and cleaner image handling. On hive.blog, the denser repo merged click-to-load privacy embeds for video, wired HiveSense AI search into the blog, and showed open market orders plus recurring transfers in the wallet.
Builders widened the tool shelf. @behiver launched Goals in HivePulse, then tightened them from feedback. @hdev posted Waggle and a HAF For You feed, then a new developer cohort plus Vylor. @beggars matured Hive Stream with offline tests, docs, and a CLI. @sagarkothari88 kept HiveSuite loud — Word Finder, smarter uploads, media and node control.
Games and apps moved too. @holozing opened Holozing:Wilds public alpha. @wrestorgonline launched WOO Ranked Mode. @liketu shipped front — one portable link page. @keychain named Multichain Explorer Challenge winners. @x-rain pushed HivePosh onto Threads (85 comments on that post alone).
On governance: four Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) proposals stay above the return line, led by the HBD Stabilizer at 12,000 HBD per day. Print rate remains zero. For how that debt pause works, see issue #75.
Development Pulse
hive.blog: hive/denser had a packed week — privacy video embeds (click-to-load), HiveSense AI search on the blog, wallet market orders and recurring transfers, real HTTP 404s for missing posts, plus CSP and history error polish.
Core node: hive/hive cherry-picked a bug fix to master. Roughly nine of the top 21 witnesses now run v1.28.7 (including @gtg, @arcange, @stoodkev). Still Hard Fork 28 — no Hard Fork 29 on mainnet.
Wax / HAF: Wax prototyped a Rust library target. Balance tracker and block explorer gained clearer stats labeling and pagination. haf_api_node added optional PROXY protocol support.
Ecency stack: Mobile shipped notification thumbnails, a working Show Images path, and daily check-in on open. vision-next pushed HBD custom-domain hosting and a claim landing for unused *.blogs.ecency.com names. vision-api hardened Hive and Hive-Engine failover.
3Speak: Community snaps editing and feed polish on TV; Shorts max duration raised to 120s; Snapie player gained OpenPods live playback and stopped storing viewer IPs in watch tracking.
HiveDevs feed: @behiver HivePulse Goals · @hdev cohort + Vylor · @beggars Hive Stream · @forkyishere Transactions Flow Tool · @sagarkothari88 HiveSuite Word Finder
Project Spotlights
Ecency: Communities guide · Waves for X/Threads leavers · creator earnings · keys · blog migration · mobile + hosting merges
PeakD: @asgarth Affinity, Klipy GIFs, image handling
HivePulse: @behiver Goals for focused daily activity
HDev: @hdev Waggle + HAF For You feed · new developer cohort · Vylor voice-first finance app
Keychain: @keychain Multichain Explorer Challenge winners
3Speak: @tibfox feed algorithm + watch-time tracking · @threespeak encoder report week 27
Liketu: @liketu front — one link that is actually yours
Games: @holozing Wilds public alpha · @wrestorgonline WOO Ranked Mode live
HivePosh: @x-rain Threads expansion for Hive link shares
Network Stats
| Metric | This week |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.0479 |
| HIVE market cap | ~$26.4M |
| HBD trading price | ~$0.96 |
| HBD trading market cap | ~$31.7M |
| CoinGecko rank | #679 |
| 24h change (HIVE) | -0.85% |
| HBD print rate | 0 (no new HBD minting) |
| HIVE powered up (7d) | 1,138,688 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down (7d) | 2,370,196 HIVE |
| Net stake change | -1,231,508 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. Trading prices and chain math differ. Full explainer: issue #75.
Powering up: @vortac led the seven-day table at about 336,000 HIVE. @behiver and @smartvote followed. Power-downs still roughly doubled power-ups for the week.
Governance
Nine of the top 21 witnesses now run v1.28.7. Others remain on 1.28.3 or 1.28.6. The network stays on Hard Fork 28.
Funded DHF proposals (paid above Return Proposal #0):
- #385 HBD Stabilizer Renewal R3-2026: 12,000 HBD/day
- #373 Hive Keychain Development Proposal 2026: 540 HBD/day
- #360 Hive Dev Proposal #2: 415 HBD/day
- #293 Hivewatchers & Spaminator Operational: 95 HBD/day
@hivecreators posted lean-budget campaign updates; those lines are not in the funded table above.
Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups
- Top 7d: @vortac 336,333 · @behiver 141,305 · @smartvote 105,000 · @planetoceana 102,790 · @rozioo 60,074
- Top 30d: @smartvote 528,916 · @vortac 336,333 · @cannonwar 250,000 · @pouchon 182,333 · @rozioo 160,036
- Totals (7d): 1,138,688 up · 2,370,196 down · net -1,231,508 HIVE
Top Community Posts This Week
371 HP — @solominer: My Hive witness update - 2026 — 649 votes, 45 comments. A witness operator report that also topped the reward board.
237 HP — @palomap3: Bram Stoker's Dracula — 1,120 votes, 33 comments. Bilingual film essay with heavy curation.
235 HP — @livinguktaiwan: Scapegrace and Gauldrons — 748 votes, 15 comments. Travel and place writing with strong stake behind it.
222 HP — @solominer: Desfrán – Day 110 — 433 votes, 30 comments. The daily series keeps landing.
205 HP — @jesuslnrs: Wounds Left by the Earthquakes — 998 votes, 55 comments. Local reporting after seismic damage.
Don't miss: @x-rain asked Hive to become influencers on Threads — 175 HP, 85 comments, 817 votes. Pair with Ecency's Waves-for-leavers post if you care about off-Hive reach.
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