Ecency: Scaling Hive Access, Infrastructure & Responsible Growth

Overview

Ecency is one of the most widely used applications in the Hive ecosystem, operating across mobile, web, and supporting infrastructure.

This proposal focuses on:

• sustaining infrastructure

• responsible onboarding

• efficient product development

This is not a proposal to expand team size, but to support proven operations.

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Ecosystem Impact

Last 12 months:

• 3.84 billion requests

• 473 million page views

• 237 TB bandwidth

• ~10.5 million daily requests

• 289 million threats mitigated

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Onboarding & Protection

• ~6,000+ users annually

• ~400-1000 users/month

Responsible onboarding

• ~47% of signup attempts are fraudulent

• actively filtered before entering Hive

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Support & Retention

Ecency provides:

• Email support

• Discord / Telegram support

Retention improvements via:

• gamification

• points systems

• user incentives

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Infrastructure & Core Services

Ecency maintains:

• Ecency.com

• Ecency mobile app (Android, iOS)

• HiveSigner (auth)

• HiveExplorer

• HiveSearcher

• HiveKeeper

• Image hosting

• Full node infrastructure

These support both Ecency and broader ecosystem usage.

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Efficiency

• costs reduced ~22%

• dev team reduced ~50%

• feature delivery maintained

Cost structure now primarily infrastructure-driven.

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Why Funding

Costs are driven by:

• infrastructure

• traffic handling

• abuse prevention

• ecosystem services

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Unfunded Scenario

Without funding:

• infrastructure may need reduction

• reliability may degrade

• onboarding & protection may be limited

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Objectives

• improve onboarding

• optimize infrastructure

• continue product development

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Summary

• 3.84B requests

• 237 TB bandwidth

• ~47% fraud filtered

• ~6,000 users onboarded

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Funding

Monthly: $6000
Duration: 13 months

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Transparency

Full report:
https://trust.ecency.com

Detailed insights post:

@ecency/ecency-operational-transparency-infrastructure-insights

Follow up details:

May 14, 2026

@ecency/ecency-proposal-follow-up-q

June 7, 2026

@ecency/open-source-does-not-mean

June 20, 2026

@ecency/a-further-reduction-to-the

July 4, 2026

@ecency/keeping-ecency-running-an-honest

July 14, 2026

@ecency/keeping-ecency-running-image-hosting

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Closing

Ecency focuses on sustainable growth, efficiency, and real-world scale.

This proposal supports continuation of that work.

Support us

https://ecency.com/proposals/379

https://peakd.com/proposals/379

https://hivesigner.com/sign/op/WyJ1cGRhdGVfcHJvcG9zYWxfdm90ZXMiLHsidm90ZXIiOiJfX3NpZ25lciIsInByb3Bvc2FsX2lkcyI6IjM3OSIsImFwcHJvdmUiOnRydWUsImV4dGVuc2lvbnMiOltdfV0.