Two posts from PeakD’s @asgarth bookended the reward leaderboard this week — a readable digest of shipped work and a frank security note — while Ecency rolled out Hive Keeper plus mobile and web point releases. Magi pushed its DHF ask, Worldmappin flipped v2 live, and Scrobble.life landed as a fresh build: entertainment history on Hive, with open source on GitHub and a community intro from @acidyo. On-chain power-ups modestly outpaced power-downs. Following last issue’s look at keys and support scams, this week’s chain read is simpler: frontends showing their homework, and momentum in the project layer.

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Editor's Take

Three things stood out. First, reward flow still said “show me what you shipped.” Two PeakD changelog-style posts from @asgarth collected outsized HP and huge vote totals — that’s the community valuing transparency from a flagship frontend. Second, Ecency didn’t just talk roadmap: Hive Keeper landed as a product story, alongside Ecency Mobile 3.5.4 and Ecency Web 4.3.8 — wallet, profile, and discovery getting steady iteration. Third, core stack work matched that energy on GitLab: synchronized beekeepy upgrades across balance_tracker and reputation_tracker, clearer health checks on haf_api_node for sidecar services, and a Hivesense fix so search stays responsive when Ollama hiccups — reliability people can feel on the frontends.

The Story of the Week: PeakD and Ecency Set the Pace

@asgarth’s PeakD updates from the last two weeks led the week’s payouts (~382 HP, 1.3K votes). A companion piece, Security fixes... pretty much everywhere this week, landed fourth (~248 HP). Together they frame a through-line that Hive keeps proving in public: users reward teams that document releases and own incidents.

On the Ecency side, Introducing Hive Keeper became its own centerpiece (~234 HP, 22 comments) — positioned alongside the Mobile 3.5.4 and Web 4.3.8 posts already in ship rhythm. For readers tracking “where Hive UX is headed,” that’s a clean signal: wallet and onboarding craft aren’t side quests; they’re the main quest.

If you read HiveToday #79 — Keepers, Keys, and Fake Support, treat this week as the constructive counterweight: real products posting real updates, in the same stretch that reminder posts about custody still matter.

Development Pulse

GitLab activity on gitlab.syncad.com delivered balance_tracker and reputation_tracker upgrades with aligned beekeepy releases; haf_api_node merged health-check port exposure for Hivesense, indexer, status, and proxy services, plus a pinned OLLAMA default; Hivesense fixed a path where a struggling Ollama backend could hang interactive search and starve autovacuum. That’s operator-visible shipping — tighter deps, clearer operability, and faster recovery when AI-side services wobble.

Ecosystem GitHub: Holozing1/hivescrobble is the open codebase behind Scrobble.life — @acidyo’s PeakD intro frames entertainment-history logging native to Hive.

HiveDevs (hive-139531): @cutehive.com launched Hive Top Holders for whale-scale visibility; @hdev shipped HivePulse v1.5.0 (Hive-Engine assets, node controls); @thecrazygm documented MagnetBank’s Neon monorepo cutover and introduced Go4Hive (Gopher spirit back on-chain); @sagarkothari88 kept the daily cadence on HiveReactKit, hSnaps, hCurators, and adjacent stack; @aftabirshad laid out HivePostify as AI-native posting for users who have never touched mainstream AI tools.

Project Spotlights

Ecency — Hive Keeper announcement plus Mobile 3.5.4 (wallet, profile, dApp discovery) and Web 4.3.8 performance polish. Keeper · Mobile · Web

3Speak — Encoder network weekly report (week 21) for the distributed upload stack. Post

Magi Network — DHF proposal thread plus a progress update on EVM integration, ZK proofs, and incentives. Proposal · Update

Worldmappin — Travel Digests cadence continues; Worldmappin v2 is now live for travelers mapping on Hive. v2

OCD — steady niche curation reports (#2209–2211). Latest

HiveBuzz — PUD/PUM rhythm: April winners, May editions, and May Power Up Day feedback. PUD feedback

Actifit — Spring refresh: security, SEO, and UX tightening on the fitness layer. Post

HiveWatchers — monthly abuse report (April) and operational notes on coordination with snaps/voter tooling. Report

Dungeon Cities — land / farmland / crop field release note from the on-chain game build. Post

Scrobble.life — Entertainment history on Hive; open repo Holozing1/hivescrobble. Intro (PeakD / Scrobble) — @acidyo.

HiveDevs (week) — Top Holders (@cutehive.com); HivePulse v1.5.0 (@hdev); MagnetBank & Go4Hive (@thecrazygm, Go4Hive); Hive React Kit build log (@sagarkothari88); HivePostify (@aftabirshad).

Network Stats

Metric This Week HIVE price (CoinGecko) ~$0.060 HIVE market cap (supply × spot) ~$32.5M HIVE supply (tokens) ~541.1M CoinGecko rank #652 HBD print rate 0 (minting still suppressed) HIVE powered up (7d) ~609,523 HIVE HIVE powered down (7d) ~541,315 HIVE Net stake change (7d) ~+68,208 HIVE

HBD explained: Hive Backed Dollars are Hive’s dollar-pegged token in the reward and savings economy. Protocol settings still care about debt limits relative to the HIVE supply; print rate at zero means the chain is not issuing new HBD via that lever right now — authors see the effect in how rewards behave. For face-value vs trading nuances, wallet dashboards and explorers remain the reader-friendly source — don’t mix up the 20% minting threshold with the 30% haircut story.

Powering up: More HIVE moved into stake than moved out in the last seven days — modest net inflows after a stretch where down-volume sometimes dominated.

Governance

Twenty of the top 21 witnesses report v1.28.3; @deathwing remains on v1.28.0 in this week’s witness snapshot — worth watching only if divergence persists.

Funded DHF lines (above the return proposal) continue to back VSC, retro ecosystem ops, Keychain, open-source expansions, Hive dev proposal #2, Ecency maintenance, Worldmapping 2.0, and Hivewatchers + Spaminator — the treasury layer that makes many of these project beats possible week after week.

Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups
* Most powered up - 7 days | @captainquack22 — ~165,182 HIVE (self)
* Notable delegations / self | @fwor — ~70,000 · @kbyshi — ~60,363 · @davidke20 — ~38,724 (self)
* Total Hive powered up - 7 days | ~609,523 HIVE
* Total Hive powered down - 7 days | ~541,315 HIVE

Top Community Posts This Week

• 382 HP — @asgarth: PeakD updates from the last two weeks — 1,284 votes, 12 comments. Changelog energy from PeakD’s maintainer; the vote weight reads as approval for transparent shipping.
• 321 HP — @solominer: Desfrán – Day 30 — 469 votes, 17 comments. Long-form grow journal continuity — consistent quality beats one-off hype.
• 291 HP — @louis88: 1 Month Claude AI - A Report... of Progress — 963 votes, 13 comments. Builders documenting AI-assisted workflow strike a chord as the toolchain debate matures.
• 248 HP — @asgarth: Security fixes... pretty much everywhere this week — 679 votes, 10 comments. Pairs with the updates post — security as product feature, not overhead.
• 245 HP — @vincentnijman: Figs, walnuts, olives to cure an energy hangover — 1,239 votes, 10 comments. Craft narrative and photography pulling top engagement beside dev news.

Don't miss
* @ecency: Introducing Hive Keeper
* @selfhelp4trolls: Hive is Ugly. Let’s change that
* @inmyframe: Siena, a Tuscan City With Impressive Architecture
* @acidyo: Introducing Scrobble.life — entertainment history on Hive
* @cutehive.com: Hive Top Holders is live
* @hdev: HivePulse v1.5.0 — wallet supercharged
* @x-rain: HivePosh contest — Reddit link roundup

Tips & streaks: PeakD tips leader this window: @gamingphoto (~3.6 HBD). Daily posting streaks count consecutive calendar days with at least one root post (comments don't count). This week’s leaders: @tarazkp 3,089 days, @bradleyarrow 2,463, then @silvertop and @elizabethbit tied at 2,434. A handful of automation-heavy accounts are left out of this tally. Ritual posting remains its own social layer.

May your power-ups compound.

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