Ecency launched Hive Keeper and a run of wallet explainers, Splinterlands ran back-to-back game beats, and the chain still showed HBD print rate at 0 while net stake moved negative (more powered down than up over seven days). The week was less about a single headline and more about steady shipping: frontends, infra, and governance all stayed in motion.
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Editor's Take
Worth a dedicated beat: HiveWatchers posted a public warning about fake "Hive support" and arbitrage scams (email, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp). If something asks for your keys or "urgent" verification, it is not official — bookmark real support paths and double-check any handle.
Elsewhere, frontends kept pushing practical user flows, Denser (hive.blog) and related repos added fixture and E2E depth, and governance stayed in a familiar place: HBD still is not being minted (print rate 0) at current conditions, and funded DHF lines still lean toward builders maintaining real infrastructure. Project Spotlights rounds out the week with Ecency, Splinterlands, Magi, 3Speak, HiveWatchers, and the PeakD changelog thread.
The Story of the Week: Wallets, Surfaces, and Honest UX
Theme for the week — the most coherent thread is making money movement and day-one tasks easier to do without breaking things: clearer wallet education, better surfaces for creators, and an explicit scam warning from HiveWatchers so fewer people get separated from their keys. That combination — polish plus safety culture — is how social chains keep users through volatile weeks.
Development Pulse
Core and ecosystem development this week leaned heavily toward stability and maintainability.
On GitLab, multiple Hive repos saw merges in-window, with Denser carrying a concentrated testing push (fixture coverage and stable/flaky E2E split), hivemind tightening concurrency behavior, and haf_api_node hardening operational paths around proxy handling and log drift. Supporting repos such as HAfAH, balance/reputation trackers, and hivesense also shipped updates, mostly in CI, dependency, and robustness categories.
On GitHub, visible merged PRs were lighter but still notable: Hive Keychain extension released v3.15.6, Mantequilla Soft's hivesnaps merged UX/compliance fixes, and SkateHive's monorepo continued app registration work. The pattern this week was less "new flagship feature" and more "ship the maintenance that keeps everything trustworthy."
Project Spotlights
Ecency — Ecency published a run of wallet and onboarding-focused updates, including the launch of Hive Keeper and practical wallet operation guides for users managing HIVE and HBD on mobile.
Introducing Hive Keeper | Wallet operations explainer
Splinterlands — Splinterlands delivered back-to-back game updates with the Vinnie & Mags airdrop and Electroneum-themed content, keeping cadence high on game-side engagement.
Vinnie & Mags Airdrop | Electroneum update
Magi Network — Magi published an embeddable cross-chain swap widget for HIVE, HBD, and BTC, a meaningful bridge point for apps that want conversion UX without forcing users into separate flows.
Magi SDK swap widget
3Speak — The weekly encoder network report stayed active, signaling ongoing throughput and operational continuity for video infrastructure on Hive.
Week 20 report
HiveWatchers — Reminder: fake "Hive support," arbitrage, and key-harvest scams keep circulating on email and chat apps. Read the team’s latest warning and verify any contact before you act.
Scam and fake-support alert
PeakD changelog thread — The latest Snaps thread from @asgarth surfaced ongoing PeakD UX and tooling refinements worth tracking into next week.
PeakD Snaps changelog thread
Network Stats
Metric This Week HIVE price $0.062324 HIVE market cap $33.58M HBD trading price $0.951 HBD trading market cap $31.62M CoinGecko rank #627 HIVE powered up (7d) 279,884.863 HIVE HIVE powered down (7d) 484,071.604 HIVE Net stake change (7d) -204,186.741 HIVE HBD print rate 0HBD explained: Hive Backed Dollars are Hive's native stablecoin, redeemable for $1 worth of HIVE at the protocol level. Right now, print_rate is zero, which means the chain is not minting new HBD under current debt conditions.
Powering up: Staking HIVE into Hive Power increases governance weight and curation exposure. This week showed net power-down, so more stake moved out of lockup than into it.
Governance
Witness versions remain largely stable at v1.28.3 in the top 21, with one visible laggard (deathwing at v1.28.0). Consensus stability remains intact, but version uniformity is still worth watching.
Funded DHF proposals (above Return Proposal #0 by votes) continue to cluster around core ecosystem maintenance and product delivery. The largest allocations in this window are VSC Network, CrimsonClad's retrospective proposal, Keychain, and PeakD, with Ecency and HiveWatchers also funded.
Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups
- Most powered up - 7 days | @onyfest - 74,088.301 HIVE
- Most powered up - 30 days | @urun - 124,842.867 HIVE
- Total Hive powered up - 7 days | 279,884.863 HIVE
- Total Hive powered down - 7 days | 484,071.604 HIVE
Top Community Posts This Week
- 381.311 HP — @louis88: Another successful day for security in the HIVE ecosystem (Only a Dead Bug, is a Good Bug!) — this topping the week reinforces how much the community values practical security progress.
- 314.502 HP — @acidyo: A Holo lot of minigames — gaming ecosystem commentary and product context continue to draw broad attention.
- 256.623 HP — @demotruk: Insights from Blockchain Data: What Actually Works for Retention on Hive — retention-focused analytics remains one of the most useful strategic conversations on-chain.
- 255.017 HP — @snapie: Snapie's Cooking Something Big (and it's finally ready) — launch-style momentum posts continue to perform when tied to concrete product movement.
- 243.837 HP — @rishi556: Introducing The YouAreTheHost Website — builder-led rollouts with direct utility are still earning strong attention from curators.
Don't miss
- Exposición Opel Love // Opel Love Exhibition — @palomap3
- Let's Build a Web of Trust — @demotruk
- 從高爾夫球聊到減肥 — @magicmonk
- En esta Ocasión, Nadie se robó mi Queso — @palabras1
- Mantequilla Soft Hangout April 12 — @mantequilla-soft
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