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Show Your Work: PeakD, Hive Keeper, and Momentum Across the Stack

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 balancetracker and reputationtracker, clearer health checks on hafapinode 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 balancetracker and reputationtracker upgrades with aligned beekeepy releases; hafapinode 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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