Debate the Dollar. Open the Market. Harden the Network.
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Debate the Dollar. Open the Market. Harden the Network.
@solominer asked what Hive looks like without HBD and topped the three-week reward board at about 308 HP. @magi.network opened Magi Market while @howo turned a forking incident into a lesson on running a multi-client chain.
This is HiveToday, a catch-up recap covering roughly three weeks on Hive since issue #93 (August 1 through August 22, 2026).
New here? Hive uses delegated proof-of-stake. You elect witnesses to produce blocks. You can post, vote, and tip without paying gas on every click. The chain has been live since March 2020.
If you only read three posts: @howo on the multi-client fork lesson · @solominer on whether Hive needs HBD (74 comments) · @ecency on Creator Newsletters you can turn on today.
This Week on Hive
Three weeks compress into one arc: markets opened, clients multiplied, and the dollar-token debate got loud again.
@howo documented how Hive became a multi-client network after a forking incident he caused, then cut his core-dev proposal ask to 150 HBD per day. For most users the chain kept producing blocks and top witnesses stayed on v1.28.7 — the post matters if you run a node or want to understand how more than one client can safely share consensus (20 comments, 629 votes). @solominer paired that infrastructure story with a macro question: what if Hive dropped HBD entirely? The thread drew 74 comments and 530 votes, making it the highest-paid root post in the window. Worth joining if you care about savings APR, debt limits, or how rewards split between HIVE and the dollar token — the author is not asking for a yes/no vote, but for better design ideas.
Marketplaces landed on-chain. @magi.network shipped Magi Market. @holozing opened the Holozing Marketplace. @acidyo wrote about Holozing’s barrier to entry and tooling for healers. Games kept moving: @splinterlands announced a sticker shop and Lumina, plus the Fourth Escalation Conflict.
The build log did not pause. @sagarkothari88 kept a daily HiveSuite and HiveReactKit cadence on C/HiveDevs — navigation, voting UI, curation history, wallet transfers, and mobile composer work. @hivepostify published a security upgrade from F to A+, then asked whether the project should stay Hive-only after a solo year of building. @behiver iterated HivePulse from community feedback; @hdev ran SEO contest winners and opened week four with a 300 HIVE pool.
Creators: If you publish on Hive, start with Ecency’s three-part stack — Creator Newsletters (email your readers from chain posts), self-hosted blogs v1.0, and the wallet explainer for every balance and button. Mobile 3.5.8 added community moderation and dictation (@ecency).
Staking culture returned on the calendar. @hivebuzz posted August Power Up Day feedback — watch @hivebuzz for the next Power Up Day call. @rozioo powered up about 124,000 HIVE in the window — the largest single self power-up in the tally. Even so, net stake change over 21 days was −5.96M HIVE: large power-downs dominated, including public threads from holders rebalancing or exiting stake (@igormuba wrote about leaving over witness-vote frustration). That tension sits beside the HBD debate and the fork post — three different lenses on the same “who steers the chain?” question.
Community rooms stayed active. @shadowspub hosted the August Witness Townhall. @buttcoins ran Hive Thrive #70 with @zekepickleman. @hivewatchers filed the July moderation report — 113 cases. @hivecreators opened HolaHive.com to the community. @x-rain posted HivePosh Contest #94 results.
@arcange published July Hive statistics and financial stats for macro context at the start of the window. @dalz posted where people actually read and post — useful if you are choosing a frontend for the first time.
Join in
- @hdev — HivePulse SEO contest week 4 (300 HIVE prize pool)
- @dungeon.cities — PvP arena grand tournament (20,000 HIVE)
- @x-rain — HivePosh Threads contest #6 (off-Hive Reddit sharing)
- @hivebuzz — August Power Up Day feedback; stake with the next community Power Up Day
- @buttcoins — Hive Thrive #70 replay and Discord calendar for the next show
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
Core node: hive/hive merged a large peer-to-peer hardening series — handshake checks for protocol version and chain ID, cleaner block relay, and stricter rejection handling when peers serve stale blocks. That is prep on develop, not a live Hard Fork activation. Top-21 witnesses run v1.28.7 on mainnet (Hard Fork 28).
HAF / Hivemind: Sync status endpoints landed across HAF, HAfAH, and Hivemind so operators can read last-irreversible progress from the API. Hivemind picked up crash-safe massive-sync finalization, pg_search fixes, and Python 3.14 CI cleanup.
Infrastructure: Ubuntu 26.04 builder and runtime images rolled through hive, HAF, wax, and related CI. Wax continued Rust API work and Python 3.14 test migration.
HiveDevs feed: Daily @sagarkothari88 HiveSuite/HiveReactKit logs · @hivepostify on Hive Engine tokens and live sessions · @cryptoreforma Hive Monitor · @vikvitnik first Hive API connection write-up
Project Spotlights
More projects below — main coverage is under This Week on Hive.
HivePredict: @beggars redesign and creator commissions
TerraCore: @terracore marketplace hardening and buyback fees
Quill: @hivetrending first post from Quill — new posting path on the trending account
Actifit: @actifit iOS 1.0 Liftoff · @actifit web v1.13.0
Analytics: @dalz Ecency usage data · @arcange July financial statistics
3Speak: @threespeak encoder week 32 report
Network Stats
| Metric | ~21 days (Aug 1–22) |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.0447 |
| HIVE market cap | ~$24.6M |
| CoinGecko rank | #730 |
| 24h change (HIVE) | +1.32% |
| HBD print rate | 0 (no new HBD minting) |
| HIVE powered up | 1,311,384 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down | 7,273,778 HIVE |
| Net stake change | −5,962,394 HIVE |
Trading note: @behiver reported Binance delisting the HIVE/USDC pair among other tokens — liquidity for traders may shift to other venues; it does not change how the Hive chain itself runs.
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: @rozioo led the 21-day self power-up table at about 123,856 HIVE. @deepresearch followed at 96,066. Power-downs far outpaced power-ups across the catch-up window despite August Power Up Day and several large locks — see the staking paragraph under This Week on Hive for the governance context.
Top tippers (21d): @hivetrending 10.96 HBD · @steevc 4.50 · @heroldius 4.50 · @derrayal 4.15 · @deanliu 3.96
Governance
The top 21 witnesses run Hard Fork 28 on v1.28.7. Core node peer-to-peer hardening merged on GitLab as future prep; no activation schedule on mainnet.
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
- #386 AI Coding Subscriptions: 200 HBD/day
- #379 Ecency development and maintenance: 100 HBD/day
Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups**
- Top 21d: @rozioo 123,856 · @deepresearch 96,066 · @molometer 82,770 · @curangel 60,000 · @percent-map 57,060
- Top 30d context: @healthsquared 117,600 · @strawhat 100,000
- Totals (21d): 1,311,384 up · 7,273,778 down · net −5,962,394 HIVE
Consistent posters: @tarazkp 3,201 days · @bradleyarrow 2,574 · @elizabethbit and @silvertop 2,546 · @vickoly 1,706
Top Community Posts This Week
HP here means author reward in Hive Power terms from the payout table — not “horsepower.” Figures reflect roughly three weeks of rewards, not a single seven-day slice.
308 HP — @solominer: Hive without HBD — 530 votes, 74 comments. The catch-up window’s top payout and the week’s loudest macro debate — jump in if you have a view on HBD’s role.
260 HP — @thekittygirl: OLD BARNS № 102 & 103 — 819 votes, 12 comments. Photo storytelling with heavy stake behind it.
250 HP — @beelzael: What I read about work today. — 852 votes, 22 comments. Essay-style curation that kept ranking.
242 HP — @coquicoin: Some thoughts and Five Years on Hive — 1,000 votes, 49 comments. Anniversary reflection with real comment depth.
214 HP — @ibarra95: DIY! JAX, one of the main characters from The Amazing Digital Circus — 607 votes, 17 comments. Craft tutorial that punched above typical reward tiers.
Don’t miss (discussion-heavy):** @howo multi-client fork post — 629 votes, 20 comments · @coquicoin five years on Hive — 49 comments · @solominer Hive without HBD — 74 comments · @magi.network Magi Market · @hivepostify security upgrade
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