Ecency Operational Transparency & Infrastructure Insights (2025-2026)

This report provides a transparent overview of Ecency's operational scale, infrastructure demands, onboarding systems, and cost structure over the past 12 months.

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System Scale & Traffic

Over the past year:

• 3.84 billion requests served

• 473 million page views

• 237 TB bandwidth delivered

• ~10.56 million requests per day

Observations

• Bandwidth per request has increased over time

• Cache efficiency fluctuates (10%-60%)

• Increased scraper and AI crawler activity impacts performance

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Peak Load Events

• March 2026:

  • 424 million requests

  • 40 TB bandwidth

• Peak day:

  • 27.3 million requests

• Peak bandwidth:

  • 2.66 TB in a single day

Infrastructure must handle spikes, not averages.

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Abuse Prevention & Security

Using IPQS and internal filtering:

• 53,802 verification checks

• 25,251 fraudulent attempts detected

• ~46.93% fraud rate

Additional internal protections:

• behavioral heuristics

• rate limiting

• validation systems

Actual fraud pressure is likely higher than measured.

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Onboarding System

Monthly onboarding range:

• Low: ~217 users

• High: ~1056 users

• Stable range: ~400-600 users

Key insight

Onboarding is constrained by quality filtering, not demand.

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User Support

Ecency provides ongoing user support through:

• Email

• Discord

• Telegram

Helping users:

• understand Hive

• resolve issues

• stay engaged

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Retention & Engagement

Retention is improved through:

Support layer

• onboarding guidance

• troubleshooting

• user assistance

Product mechanisms

• points system

• gamification

• engagement incentives

Retention is an active focus area.

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Cost Structure Evolution

2025:

• Dev: 51.9%

• Infra: 22.1%

• Other: ~26%

2026:

• Dev: ~36%

• Infra: ~30%

• Other: ~34%

Total cost:

• Reduced from ~$11,550 - ~$9,064

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Efficiency Gains

• Dev team reduced ~50%

• Feature delivery maintained

• Infrastructure load increased

Efficiency improved while demand increased.

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Core Services Operated

Ecency maintains:

• Ecency.com

• Ecency mobile app (Android, iOS)

• HiveSigner (authentication)

• HiveExplorer (blockchain explorer)

• HiveSearcher (search & indexing)

• HiveKeeper (browser extension)

• Image hosting infrastructure

• Full Hive node

These support authentication, data access, content discovery, and media delivery.

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Infrastructure Role

Infrastructure supports:

• frontend delivery

• APIs and backend systems

• indexing and caching

• abuse detection

It also absorbs spikes and mitigates attacks.

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Key Challenges

• increasing bandwidth demand

• AI crawler pressure

• cache inefficiency

• balancing onboarding vs abuse

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Strategic Direction

• improve caching efficiency

• reduce cost per request

• maintain onboarding quality

• explore partial revenue offsets

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Transparency

Full financial breakdown:

https://trust.ecency.com

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Final Insight

Ecency has transitioned from a development-heavy model to an infrastructure-driven system operating at real-world scale.

The majority of cost is now tied to sustaining usage, not expanding teams.