HiveToday 74 - Six Years of Hive

This is the 74th edition of HiveToday, returning after a long hiatus — and what a week to come back: Hive celebrated its sixth birthday on March 20th, with development activity humming across every layer of the stack.

Hive Projects Updates

• Splinterlands: The ninth Conclave Arcana Conflicts airdrop dropped DRAGONLORD MANCER, and a triple-voucher card release is on the way. [airdrop post] | [card release]
• Ecency: Introduced hive-x402, a protocol enabling Hive-native payments on the open web without intermediaries — a significant step for Hive's role in internet-native commerce. [post]
• Ecency Mobile 3.5.2: The latest mobile release adds AI image generation, text-to-speech, and a major performance overhaul across iOS and Android. [post]
• 3Speak: Encoder Network Week 15 report published — the decentralized video encoding network continues its steady operation. [post]

Development Highlights

The Hive core development team had an active week, with 38 improvements merged across five repositories. The headline work was a coordinated infrastructure modernization: the entire node stack — hived, HAF, HAfAH, and hivemind — was updated in lockstep to standardize container security and upgrade how post content is stored internally. These kinds of foundational improvements make Hive nodes easier and safer to run, and set the stage for better performance across the ecosystem.

On the frontend, Denser received several user-facing reliability fixes, including better recovery from authentication issues and editor bug fixes for content creators.

• hive/hive & hive/haf: Security and infrastructure improvements — containers now run under a single standardized user, and the build system was simplified
• hive/HAfAH & hive/hivemind: Post body storage upgraded to modern JSONB format, improving query performance for apps built on HAF
• hive/denser: Auth reliability improvements and editor fixes for a smoother writing experience

Top Rewarded Posts This Week on Hive

• Mar 14, 2026 - Genius Juice – Day 102
  • 217.545 Hive rewards | @solominer
• Mar 17, 2026 - That's a Wrap for Hive Thrive Community Hour feat. Lord Butterfly
  • 198.787 Hive rewards | @alessandrawhite
• Mar 14, 2026 - A Total Eclipse
  • 185.280 Hive rewards | @papilloncharity
• Mar 15, 2026 - Show Us The Receipts: DHF Projects Need Transparent Expense Breakdowns
  • 183.028 Hive rewards | @beggars
• Mar 19, 2026 - You can now EDIT VIDEOS on 3Speak!
  • 161.118 Hive rewards | @tibfox

Updates on Hive Network Governance

Hive Witness Updates

• All top 21 witnesses are running v1.28.3 — no version changes this week. The lineup is stable: gtg, ocd-witness, stoodkev, arcange, steempeak, blocktrades, roelandp, yabapmatt, good-karma, themarkymark, ausbitbank, guiltyparties, threespeak, deathwing, abit, mahdiyari, therealwolf, emrebeyler, pharesim, smooth.witness, and howo.

Hive Proposal Updates

• The DHF continues to fund 14 active proposals. The HBD Stabilizer remains the dominant allocation at 12,000 HBD/day, followed by VSC Network (1,151 HBD/day), Hive Keychain (600 HBD/day), and PeakD (490 HBD/day). A community post calling for more transparent expense reporting from DHF projects (Show Us The Receipts) was among the top-rewarded posts this week, reflecting ongoing community interest in DHF accountability.

*** Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups ***

• Most powered up - 7 days | @honey-swap - 530,000.000 Hive
• Most powered up - 30 days | @honey-swap - 530,000.000 Hive
• Total Hive powered up - 7 days | 896,317.000 Hive
• Total Hive powered down - 7 days | 821,117.000 Hive

Weather Report - Market Data

HBD Marketcap = $33,364,864
HIVE Marketcap = $34,048,197
HBD Marketcap is currently 97.993% of HIVE Marketcap
HIVE median price must stay above $0.6272 to avoid haircut (currently $0.0640)
Internal market Hive price is $0.064

HIVE holds rank #590 according to CoinMarketCap.

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