• Dashboards on the Desk, Hard Fork 29 in the Pipeline, and Stakers Showed Up
  • This Week on Hive
  • Development Pulse
    • Hard Fork 29 prep (code merged, not activated on mainnet)
    • Other core and app dev
  • Project Spotlights
  • Network Stats
  • Governance
  • Top Community Posts This Week
    • About Hive

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§Dashboards on the Desk, Hard Fork 29 in the Pipeline, and Stakers Showed Up

@friendlymoose shipped an Account Health Dashboard that topped 175 Hive Power (HP) and 48 comments this week, core developers merged the first Hard Fork 29 (HF29) rule changes into the node codebase (not yet live on mainnet), and net staking swung +783k HIVE ahead of Hive Power Up Day on June 1.

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§This Week on Hive

@friendlymoose built a tool the chain never shipped natively: a Hive Account Health Dashboard that shows resource credits, voting patterns, and account risk in one place. The launch post earned 175 HP, 531 votes, and 48 comments, strong traction for a solo dev tool on C/HiveDevs. An updates thread followed mid-week; an earlier build log drew 112 comments, showing the idea landed before the polish did.

The dashboard arrived in a busy tools week. @thecrazygm shipped Nectar v1.0.0 on srbde, a search layer for Hive content. @asgarth ran PeakD discovery and SEO tests. @ecency dropped Mobile 3.5.6. @hdev shipped HivePulse v1.6.0 with multi-account wallets. @cutehive.com updated Hive Reader Mini for standalone article links. Hive apps now compete on findability and account clarity, not just posting. A health dashboard feels boring until your resource credits run dry, and then it is the only screen that matters.

Meanwhile the community put weight back on the chain. Roughly 1.3M HIVE powered up in seven days against 519k powered down, a sharp reversal from last week’s net down week. @hivebuzz called Power Up Day for June 1. @risingstargame still led the reward board at 254 HP, proof that last week’s game reset is still the loudest thread in the room (issue #83).

§Development Pulse

§Hard Fork 29 prep (code merged, not activated on mainnet)

There was no on-chain witness post or scheduled mainnet activation date for Hard Fork 29 this week. The live chain is still on Hard Fork 28; top witnesses run v1.28.3. What changed was preparation work in the hive/hive repository on the develop branch.

When HF29 eventually activates, the rule set currently defined in the codebase covers three user-visible fixes:

1. Recurrent transfers (issue #786): Today, a new recurrent transfer must run at least twice (executions ≥ 2). HF29 would allow you to modify an existing recurrent transfer down to one remaining execution, so you can wind down a scheduled payment without deleting and recreating it.

2. Account recovery authority limits: HF29 closes a loophole where an account could use oversized authority keys when editing or canceling an account recovery request, bypassing the normal size checks. After the fork, those limits would apply consistently on recovery operations.

3. Limit orders for missing assets: HF29 would reject limit orders that try to buy assets that do not exist on the chain. Today such orders can sit until expiry because no one can fill them; the fork makes posting them invalid up front.

Developers also merged a separate vote evaluator bug fix (nested database updates that could corrupt vote accounting on old blocks) and continued Docker / IPv6 listening polish across the HAF stack. None of that means HF29 is live yet: mainnet node builds still declare 28 hard forks, and the placeholder activation block in develop is 150,000,000 (the chain is near 106.8M), with no public witness coordination post so far.

§Other core and app dev

Balance tracking moved to faster SQL queries in balance_tracker. The hive.blog codebase gained new test coverage for communities and follow lists. The block explorer added live Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) proposal pages.

HiveDevs shipping: @thecrazygm refreshed HiveTools pools. @sagarkothari88 shipped daily HiveSuite and HiveReactKit updates. 3Speak video pipelines picked up memory and timeout fixes.

§Project Spotlights

Ecency: @ecency shipped Mobile 3.5.6 with perks, Read Next, and multi-send.

PeakD: @asgarth ran discovery experiments and SEO work; @behiver confirmed PeakD as HivePulse’s content handler.

Hive Keychain: @keychain is testing multichain with Altera from Magi (follow-up to last week’s closed beta).

HivePulse: @hdev released v1.6.0 with multi-account support and full wallet view.

HivePostify: @aftabirshad posted a cloud account-claim update; @postify shared an operations report on HiveDevs.

Splinterlands: @splinterlands announced Summer Fun Gift Boxes.

Rising Star: @risingstargame future-of-game post still topping rewards.

Worldmappin: daily Travel Digest series through #2932.

MydEmpire: @mydempire mobile experience update.

§Network Stats

HBD explained: HBD is Hive’s dollar-pegged token. When too much HBD exists relative to HIVE value, the chain can stop minting new HBD. Print rate 0 means that brake is on now. Treasury HBD held by @hive.fund is counted separately from what users hold (see issue #75 for the full debt story).

Powering up: net power-up flipped strongly positive this week. @elmerlin and @planetoceana led with six-figure self-stakes; @hivebuzz called Hive Power Up Day for June 1.

§Governance

Twenty of the top 21 witnesses run v1.28.3. deathwing is on v1.28.0; good-karma runs v1.28.6. The network remains on Hard Fork 28 until witnesses schedule and adopt HF29.

Funded DHF proposals (paid above Return Proposal #0):

• #377 HBD Stabilizer, Renewal R2-2026: 12,000 HBD/day
• #368 Ecosystem Operations, Bizdev and Growth Retroactive: 1,000 HBD/day
• #350 Development of several new open source projects: 490 HBD/day
• #360 Hive Dev Proposal #2: 415 HBD/day
• #336 Ecency development and maintenance #5: 300 HBD/day
• #293 Hivewatchers & Spaminator Operational: 95 HBD/day

Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups**

• Most powered up, 7 days: @elmerlin, 886,009 HIVE
• Most powered up, 7 days (2nd): @planetoceana, 300,000 HIVE
• Total Hive powered up, 7 days: 1,301,904 HIVE
• Total Hive powered down, 7 days: 518,674 HIVE

§Top Community Posts This Week

HP means Hive Power: the staked token weight behind author rewards, not “horsepower.”

• 254 HP: @risingstargame, Important Announcement Regarding The Future of Rising Star, 557 votes, 82 comments. Still the week’s biggest payout as the community digests the game’s reset.
• 203 HP: @papilloncharity, A visit to the lake…, 455 votes, 17 comments. Nature photography with steady curator support.
• 196 HP: @ibarra95, From the city of Ciego de Ávila, Cuba: An injection of young art…, 1,151 votes, 15 comments. Photo essay on a provincial gallery show.
• 180 HP: @gungunkrishu, MetaMask — Not Loading? How to Fix It?, 446 votes, 3 comments. Wallet troubleshooting guide with broad search appeal.
• 175 HP: @friendlymoose, The Hive Account Health Dashboard, 531 votes, 48 comments. Dev tool launch that matched this week’s tools-and-clarity theme.

Don’t miss**

• @plantfuljourney: Strawberry season, 175 HP, 391 votes
• @schmidi: Vienna Hive meetup recap
• @x-rain: HivePosh Reddit contest, 353 links shared
• @josediccus: philosophy essay trending globally
• @dalz: Hive debt data deep-dive

Top tippers (7d): @silversaver888, @coinjoe, and @geneeverett led at roughly 1.4 and 1.2 HBD tipped.

Posting streaks: @tarazkp (3,116 days), @bradleyarrow (2,491), @elizabethbit and @silvertop (2,462 each).

This is HiveToday #84, weekly coverage of the Hive blockchain ecosystem.

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Hive is a proof-of-stake network for social apps and games. Witnesses you elect produce blocks. Most posts, votes, and transfers skip per-click fees. You keep one account across many apps and frontends.