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 --- A GOPHER-LIKE INTERFACE FOR HIVE BLOCKCHAIN ---

Hive Keychain Development Proposal 2026

BY: @keychain | CREATED: April 15, 2026, 8:31 a.m. | VOTES: 655 | PAYOUT: $46.50 | [ VOTE ]

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A lot has happened this past year, and if you've followed @keychain account posts, you know that we have continued building, improving, and expanding Hive Keychain across our mobile apps, browser extensions, and supporting infrastructure.

Let's start with some numbers to put Hive Keychain in perspective:

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For a detailed breakdown of how resources have been used, please refer to our transparency report:
👉 Transparency Report

The current proposal is coming to an end, but there is still much we want to achieve to continue strengthening Hive’s ecosystem — which is why we are submitting this new proposal.

Hive Keychain DHF

This new proposal will start immediately after the current one ends, with no overlap between the two.

Our vision remains unchanged and continues to focus on three main goals:

Development: Maintaining, improving, and expanding our extensions, mobile apps, and infrastructure based on user needs and ecosystem demand.

Cooperation: Working with dApps and services both inside and outside of our Hive ecosystem.

Bridging Hive: Expanding Hive’s reach through multichain integrations, starting with EVM (now in internal testing phase).

I. Development

Developing and maintaining Hive Keychain products remains our core objective.

The following sections highlight both what has been achieved and what we aim to improve next across this full stack.

1/ Keychain Extension

Our extension remains at the forefront of development and continues to be the first platform to introduce new features.

Some highlights from this year:

We also have a few features that have already been developed but will be shipped with EVM as they are used on both ecosystems:
* A proper contact list
* A standardized warning system
* Customizable push notifications

Next steps:

2/ Keychain Mobile

Mobile continues to be one of our main focuses. It is now very close to full parity with the extension in terms of features, except, of course, for the coming EVM integration. On top of that, our in-App browser is now packed with new features which make your everyday mobile Hive experience even better!

Some highlights from this year:

Next steps:

3/ Keychain Swaps

Keychain Swap continues to play a central role in connecting tokens across Hive and beyond. This year, we improved safety and reliability (better price handling, failure cases, and routing) while integrating providers such as StealthEX and Changelly to open direct paths between Hive assets and the wider crypto ecosystem.

The next evolution is the introduction of a full aggregator experience inside Keychain. The first version will combine Portfolio, Buy, Sell, Swap, and Bridge into a single interface, powered by multiple providers (6 to start). This will allow users to seamlessly move between Hive, L2 tokens, and external chains while always getting the best route based on price and reliability.

Beyond UX, this is a key part of our business model: by aggregating liquidity and routing across providers, Keychain can begin generating sustainable revenue, helping reduce long-term dependency on DHF funding while continuing to deliver core infrastructure to the ecosystem.

We already started working on the Aggregator, and here is a sneak peek for you:

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Next steps:

4/ SDK & Playground

Developer tooling remains a priority for easy access to all devs to our ecosystem and Hive. Making it easy to integrate Hive Keychain into any dapps is the fastest way to deploy any project on Hive, and for that, we:

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Next steps:

5/ Infrastructure & Backend

Our backend infrastructure has evolved significantly, especially with the introduction of multichain (EVM) support.

A key component of this is the development of a light node system, a heavy backend layer that continuously monitors addresses across supported chains. This is necessary in order to provide advanced features that are not readily available on public RPCs, while mitigating the costs of using third-party providers.

Supporting this level of functionality requires a robust and scalable infrastructure, with significant DevOps work to maintain uptime and performance while adding multiple third-party integrations to enrich data and capabilities

This backend layer powers critical features such as:
- Full transaction history across all chains
- Token and NFT discovery and metadata enrichment
- Smart contract interaction analysis
- Gas fee oracles and transaction gas estimation
- Cross-chain asset visibility

As Keychain evolves into a multichain wallet, this infrastructure becomes a core pillar of the product, ensuring a seamless and reliable experience for users across all supported ecosystems. 

6/ And much more

Over the past year, we have continued delivering features across all components of our stack, including several core projects that power our ecosystem. Beyond the extension, mobile apps, swaps, and SDK, our work also spans:

II. Cooperation

1/ On Hive

We continue working closely with projects across the Hive ecosystem:

Future cooperations:
- implementing the Hive Debit Card as soon as their SDK is ready
- adding Hive-built swaps and bridges when production-ready (Magi swaps, wrapped HIVE, etc.)

2/ Outside of Hive

We are actively expanding Hive’s reach beyond its current ecosystem:

Some providers we've contacted already support Hive, while others are evaluating integration. These efforts aim to make Hive more accessible and connected globally. We're also looking into digital and physical debit card providers to see if there are some possibilities for Hive integration.

You can find more details about this topic in our latest transparency report.

III. Multichain

Multichain integration has become a major focus of our work over the past year and represents a significant investment of time and resources from the team. Although this code hasn't been deployed to production yet, it can be found in the feature/evm branch that is currently 697 commits ahead of the master branch. We strongly believe this major update will be a game-changer for Hive, as it will enable the ecosystem to connect directly with the broader crypto landscape rather than operate in isolation.

EVM integration is not just about adding new chains; it is about bringing liquidity, users, and interoperability to Hive, while making it easier for developers from outside ecosystems to interact with Hive using familiar standards.

We are currently in the internal testing phase of our EVM integration. This stage focuses on validating core flows, ensuring stability, and identifying edge cases before exposing the feature more broadly. Once we're satisfied with this, we will continue with a closed alpha testing phase with a few selected testers and finally, a wider open alpha, on which anyone will be able to participate.

We will actively look for testers willing to spend time using the product and providing meaningful feedback, as these testing phases will be critical to ensuring a solid transition to a multichain wallet.

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Our first version aims to provide a full-fledged EVM wallet experience on 7 of the most popular EVM chains: Ethereum, Base, BSC, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, and Arbitrum, as well as their testnets.

To list a few of the many features we've implemented:

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Next steps:

IV. Additional Work

1/ Support

We continue to provide support through Discord and community channels, helping users and developers integrate and troubleshoot.

2/ Community Growth

We continue expanding Hive Keychain’s presence beyond Hive through social platforms (X, Linkedin) and partnerships.

3/ Infrastructure

We maintain and scale backend systems required to support our APIs, swaps, multisig, as well as our current multichain integration.

V. Budget

For this new proposal, we are reducing our budget to 540 HBD/day, a 10% decrease from our past proposal, in order to lower a bit our impact on the DHF. Our medium-term goal is to reduce further our proposal's budget once we have a stable income from our swap aggregation services.
This cut, along with a non-negligible increase in our infrastructure and API costs due to the multichain integration, will translate into a 24% cut of our development costs. This has been rendered possible by the rapid improvement of AI technology, which allows us to greatly increase our output while reducing the manpower involved. That being said, there are limits to this, especially for software as security-sensitive as a crypto wallet.
After these changes, our monthly budget will look as follows.

For more information about these different items, read our transparency post.

VI. Commitments

VII. Our Team

@stoodkev : Founder - Witness
@cedricguillas : Lead Developer
@manuphotos : Ecosystem Growth Lead - Witness
@yabapmatt : Advisor - Witness

VIII. Downloads & Contact

Find all apps, extensions, and resources here:
👉 Landing page

For support and discussions:
👉 Discord link

Support Hive Keychain development by voting for this proposal (#373) on PeakD, or with HiveSigner.

100% of the rewards of this post are going to the DHF

TAGS: [ #hive ] [ #hivedev ] [ #dhf ] [ #keychain ] [ #proposal ] [ #dev ]

Replies

@ph1102 | April 15, 2026, 8:43 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

> For this new proposal, we are reducing our budget to 540 HBD/day, a 10% decrease from our past proposal, in order to lower a bit our impact on the DHF. Our medium-term goal is to reduce further our proposal's budget once we have a stable income from our swap aggregation services.

I suppose it would be great to see the current income numbers from these services? Just to check out if development is going in a good direction of self-sustainability...
I know that numbers are probably low, but having a visual chart (for example) of income in the last 12-24 months would be a great incentive and motivation for others to support this proposal... 😉

@stoodkev | April 15, 2026, 8:55 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

Great question! We currently only have our swap service on Hive and Hive Engine, since our wallet only serves Hive at the moment. The problem is that is the liquidity is very small, we make a few hundred HBDs, up to a thousand (rare), on a good month.
One of the advantages of having Keychain become multichain is that we will then be able to provide access to many more chains and tokens, as well as some types of services that simply do not exist on Hive. Take on/off ramps for example. You'd be able to buy or sell HIVE or HBD directly from Keychain, with only one intermediary step to convert it into an EVM token. We don't offer this for now as no provider currently provides a direct HIVE on/off ramp.

EDIT: As briefly mentioned in the commitment section, we will prepare a public page to keep our earnings transparent once everything is ready on the EVM side.

@lasseehlers | April 15, 2026, 5:38 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Are you implementing MAGI??? Or are those separate??

@holovision.cash | April 15, 2026, 7 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

My guess is that since Hive Keychain already supports Hive-Engine they probably would support MAGI. Whether or not Hive Keychain would continue the support after @lasseehlers drives most of the users away from that ecosystem with his toxic as Hell "crypto expert" LARPing is harder to predict.

But at least peakd.com already has the barebones for a MAGI wallet.

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@stoodkev | April 16, 2026, 2:30 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Actually, we already developed Magi integration long ago (it was still VSC at the time). We will release it when there's enough demand for it.

@heruvim1978 | April 15, 2026, 10:03 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Quite interesting. Are you going to have a Hive-metamask bridge possible, that would be super cool and probably help move funds around bringing ETH and stablecoins to Hive.

@stoodkev | April 15, 2026, 10:08 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

We will support chains available on Metamask directly within Keychain, using the same standards as Metamask. This means that any dApp currently using Metamask for signing would also work with Keychain right out of the box.
As for our swap aggregator, it will work both with:
- Keychain only (Hive + EVM)
- combination of Keychain for Hive and Metamask for EVM tokens

Hope I'm answering your question =)

@heruvim1978 | April 16, 2026, 10:10 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I cannot wait to see, the main entry level issue for now i think is the lack of an easy way to connect big blockchains to hive, if this is solved, the potential is immense.

@urielkinnear | April 15, 2026, noon | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

Fantastic product, use it daily. Glad to see the live development and plans for enhancement, keep up the great work!
!PIZZA

@stoodkev | April 16, 2026, 2:03 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Will do!

@pizzabot | April 15, 2026, 12:01 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

PIZZA!

$PIZZA slices delivered:
@urielkinnear(2/5) tipped @keychain

Send $PIZZA tips in Discord via tip.cc!

@azircon | April 15, 2026, 1:32 p.m. | Votes: 17 | [ VOTE ]

Please consider switching to maintenance mode

> Right now it looks like people grabbing silverware off the Titanic while it sink

@stoodkev | April 15, 2026, 1:58 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

I've said it several times, I don't believe stopping development is the way forward if we want the price of HIVE to recover. Spend smarter instead.
That's why we're aiming to work on things that can bring users to Hive, improve the ecosystem as a whole, and slowly reduce our weight on the DHF by generating revenue.

@azircon | April 15, 2026, 2:08 p.m. | Votes: 17 | [ VOTE ]

Clearly that is your opinion.

I have a different opinion. My opinion is based on the fact that we have NO MONEY.

While your idea is great, what would you suggest we do if we have no money?

@stoodkev | April 15, 2026, 2:19 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Yeah I don't think we'll agree on that one.
I don't see passivity improving the current situation.

@azircon | April 15, 2026, 2:24 p.m. | Votes: 18 | [ VOTE ]

I don't see any disagreement.

Either we have the CASH or we don't. It is as simple as that.

@davideownzall | April 15, 2026, 1:52 p.m. | Votes: 3 | [ VOTE ]

I use it daily, and when features were requested they got delivered... There is much more to come and it's a must for hive, I'll support this

@stoodkev | April 16, 2026, 2:04 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks for your support!

@valentin86 | April 15, 2026, 4:08 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Great progress and a clear vision for where Keychain is heading. The multichain/EVM direction is a strong strategic move, and i appreciate the transparency around the roadmap. It’s a big year ahead, and i’m supporting the proposal with the hope that the focus remains on the features that bring the highest impact to the ecosystem — looking forward to seeing the execution unfold.

@stoodkev | April 16, 2026, 2:39 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks for your support! That will be a lot of work but yes I think this could impact Hive for the best

@lasseehlers | April 15, 2026, 5:36 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I use and like Hive-Keychain, so I donated to the team::: https://www.lassecash.com/@lasseehlers/donation-to-key-chain-team

@holovision.cash | April 15, 2026, 7:08 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Were you using Hive Keychain when you were dumping your own LASSECASH token?

https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@holovision/lasseehlers-dumping-his-own-lassecash-token

@cositav | April 15, 2026, 5:37 p.m. | Votes: 3 | [ VOTE ]

My full support; excellent work, high quality and technology. Very well done; at Hive we continue to move forward and grow. And if this proposal aims to bring Hive closer to more users, excellent!
via Apps from

@nwothini335 | April 15, 2026, 7:21 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Kudos to the developers and the brain behind these awesome developments.----
via Apps from

@stoodkev | April 16, 2026, 2:30 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

That's the goal! Thanks for your support!

@joanm897 | April 15, 2026, 7:55 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Excellent team and great news! Many improvements are coming to the app this year.

@stoodkev | April 16, 2026, 2:39 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you!

@ylich | April 16, 2026, 1:08 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Well done! I'm always with you!

@stoodkev | April 16, 2026, 2:40 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks for your continuous support! =)

@ylich | April 16, 2026, 3:44 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Avec plaisir, mon ami ! 🤗[IMAGE: https://i.imgur.com/XsrNmcl.png]

@angeluxx | April 16, 2026, 3:19 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Great! I support this proposal because the keychain is essential for me. I don't think there's anything similar on Hive that provides such security and peace of mind. You're doing an excellent job, and my greatest wish is that you make Hive a better place for everyone and that, thanks to your efforts and progress, more users join. I wish you much success.

@spacecop | April 16, 2026, 9:01 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

hive-keychain — Activity Summary (2025-04-16 → 2026-04-16)

## Headline numbers

Metric Value Repositories (total / active) 25 / 17 Commits 1,013 Lines added 625,796 Lines deleted 561,909 Net lines +63,887 PRs opened 97 PRs merged 29 PRs closed without merge 57 PRs still open ~11 Issues opened 11

## Per-repo breakdown (active repos only)

Repo Commits +Added −Deleted hive-keychain-mobile 580 472,488 443,462 hive-keychain-extension 285 104,049 83,711 hive-keychain-commons 46 1,775 1,826 keychain-sdk-playground 26 5,420 5,563 hive-keychain-api 13 7,879 1,306 keychain-landing 13 951 174 evm-e2ee 11 8,004 221 keychain-sdk 9 2,868 1,385 hive-tx-js 9 4,061 4,089 hive-multisig-frontend 8 7,626 6,302 tutorial 5 994 914 sscjs 4 9,422 11,925 swap-widget 2 255 1,027 hive-account-recovery 1 0 0 react-shimmer 1 4 4 hive-multisig-sdk 0 0 0 keychain-store 0 0 0

## Dormant repos (no pushes in the window)

hive-qrcode, hive-qrcode-generator, hive-multisig-backend, hive-multisig-granularity-bot, hive-multisig-onboarding, hive-multisig-2fa, stores-map, hive-keychain-landing (archived).

## Observations

  • hive-keychain-mobile dominates — ~57% of commits, ~75% of additions, ~79% of deletions. Those line totals almost certainly include lockfiles and generated assets; real "human-written" churn
    is a good deal smaller.
  • hive-keychain-extension is the next powerhouse (~28% of commits).
  • Merge ratio is low: 29 of 97 opened PRs merged (~30%). 57 closed-without-merge suggests lots of bot PRs (Dependabot / Renovate) being dismissed, or heavy PR triage.
  • Strategic focus in the window: core wallet (mobile + extension) plus a clear push on EVM (evm-e2ee, +8k lines) and API (hive-keychain-api, +7.8k / −1.3k — mostly growth).
  • Several side repos went quiet (hive-multisig-*, hive-qrcode*, onboarding) — the multisig line appears to be in maintenance mode.
@keychain | April 16, 2026, 9:36 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

There are actually many more commits than that on the extension side if you check the feature/evm branch (807 commits)

@geneeverett | April 21, 2026, 10:59 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Keychain app browser having issues again?

@keychain | April 22, 2026, 1:51 a.m. | Votes: 4 | [ VOTE ]

How so? There was no update affecting the browser recently. Can you describe the issue here or on our Discord?

@geneeverett | April 22, 2026, 2:37 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

So nothings down? Weird, hive engine told me I should blame browser for it not working, I was using the browser on keychain app. It didn’t sound right honestly, sorry for the confusion. Just wanted to check 👍.

@thefed | May 29, 2026, 1:23 p.m. | Votes: 3 | [ VOTE ]

I’m having same problem now? Are you still Gene?

@jocieprosza | May 21, 2026, 3:12 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Hey @stoodkev @keychain I think I need some help. I've updated the app to 2.13 and can't log into the app, it says PIN is wrong even though it is not.

@thefed | May 29, 2026, 1:21 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Is there an issue with the browser in keychain app? Hive Engine site doesn’t work in it at all but oddly does anywhere else I try, meaning any standard browser. Hive engine automatically takes me to keychain so I always used the browser in it but it’s not functional at all now.

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