Frontends and builders moved fast this week: @ecency shipped Ecency 4.4.0 with a round of Waves improvements — a combined short-post feed, clearer stats on each card, and a calmer scroll — while @thecrazygm wrapped dCity's 70,000 HIVE claimdrop and the end of its SIM-token era. Builders also released Anther and gopherd, two new Golang toolkits for developers wiring apps to Hive. Net stake still ran the other way: about 1.9 million HIVE powered down versus 708,000 up.
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@ecency rolled out Ecency 4.4.0 across three posts from Tuesday through Friday, saving the Waves refresh for the Friday headline. Ecency described the release as leveling up Waves — its existing short-post format — not launching it for the first time: one combined For you timeline, stats on every card, server-side mutes, and no autoplay. The same day, @hivebuzz flagged Hive Power Up Day on July 1.
@gungunkrishu walked players through what @thecrazygm's final dCity claimdrop meant on the ground — useful context after 70,000 HIVE went out the door. Witness @howo's gopherd Golang library paired with Anther on the builder-tooling front.
@sagarkothari88 kept HiveSuite and HiveReactKit on a daily cadence — design system glow-up, post composer refinements, wallet and poll UX, and reward-display tweaks. @inertia showed how Hyperion can feed agentic analysis of chain data — timely as more builders talk about AI-assisted workflows on Hive.
Video kept moving too. 3Speak TV shipped a YouTube-style desktop watch layout and multi-embed support on GitHub. hive.blog picked up cleaner 3Speak player embeds and started showing HBD print-rate haircuts on pending payout breakdowns — small UI fixes that matter when print rate sits at zero.
On governance: five Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) proposals remain funded above the return line, down from six last week. Ecency and PeakD sustainability posts from issue #87 no longer clear the vote threshold. The HBD Stabilizer still leads at 12,000 HBD per day. For how HBD debt and print rate work, see issue #75.
hive.blog: hive/denser now renders 3Speak embeds as clean players and applies the HBD print-rate haircut when showing pending payout breakdowns.
hivemind: Now exposes how pending rewards are calculated — frontends can show more accurate payout estimates.
Core node: hive/hive fixed long-standing unit-test problems. Witnesses still run Hard Fork 28 (mostly v1.28.3). No new hard fork on mainnet.
3Speak: Mantequilla-Soft merged a YouTube-style desktop watch page, unified action buttons, multi-embed support, and embed-studio publish previews across the TV and checks repos.
HiveDevs feed: @thecrazygm Anther (Golang toolkit) · @howo gopherd (Golang protocol library) · @inertia Hyperion agents · @pibara Merg-E spec v0.3 · @sagarkothari88 HiveSuite daily updates
Ecency: @ecency Ecency 4.4.0 — Waves feed improvements (combined timeline, on-card stats, mute filtering, no autoplay) plus a faster web app. Also: owning your content when the platform cannot delete you.
dCity / Anther / gopherd: @thecrazygm final claimdrop post · Anther Golang toolkit · @howo gopherd Golang library
HiveSuite / HiveReactKit: @sagarkothari88 design system, composer, wallet, polls, and snaps — daily dev cadence on HiveDevs.
Keychain: @keychain Multichain Explorer Challenge — community contest around the multichain beta.
3Speak: Desktop watch-page redesign and multi-embed week on GitHub; @threespeak encoder network report #24.
Games: @splinterlands three new voucher cards in Praetoria · @wrestorgonline WOO Freedom Fight Series in July · @mydempire Empire Management Office live
| Metric | This week |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.0505 |
| HIVE market cap | ~$27.8M |
| HBD trading price | ~$0.97 (estimate) |
| HBD trading market cap | ~$9.2M (effective supply × peg) |
| CoinGecko rank | #661 |
| 24h change (HIVE) | +2.25% |
| HBD print rate | 0 (no new HBD minting) |
| HIVE powered up (7d) | 707,716 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down (7d) | 1,908,961 HIVE |
| Net stake flow (7d) | −1,201,245 HIVE |
HBD explained: Hive Backed Dollars (HBD) are the chain's stable token. When too much HBD sits relative to HIVE supply, the chain stops minting new HBD — that is why print rate is zero right now. About 9.4 million HBD counts toward the debt ratio after subtracting the treasury held by 
Powering up: @dalz published fresh power-up and power-down analytics this week — worth a read if you track where Hive Power (HP) is moving.
Witnesses remain on Hard Fork 28 (v1.28.3 for most; @good-karma on v1.28.6). @deathwing still reports v1.28.0 — worth watching.
Funded DHF proposals (5 active, above return #0):
| ID | Subject | Daily pay |
|---|---|---|
| #377 | HBD Stabilizer - Renewal R2-2026 | 12,000 HBD |
| #368 | Retroactive: Ecosystem Operations, Bizdev and Growth | 1,000 HBD |
| #373 | Hive Keychain Development Proposal 2026 | 540 HBD |
| #360 | Hive Dev Proposal #2 | 415 HBD |
| #293 | Hivewatchers & Spaminator Operational | 95 HBD |
Change from last week: Ecency and PeakD proposals dropped below the return threshold — two fewer funded lines than issue #87.
Governance Data — Hive Power-Ups (7d)
Top tippers (7d): 
Consistent posters: 
HP = Hive Power, the staked token weight that drives author rewards on Hive.
306 HP — @palomap3: Ande o no ande // Whether it works or not — 1,253 votes, 37 comments. Bilingual poetry on persistence — the week's top payout.
222 HP — @plantfuljourney: Drunense Duinen — 490 votes, 19 comments. Dutch dunes photography with strong visual pull.
218 HP — @modernzorker: The Critical Role of Digital Preservation in Gaming History — 812 votes, 29 comments. Gaming history angle that resonated beyond the usual crypto crowd.
207 HP — @zirochka: To be unemployed — 915 votes, 113 comments. Personal essay that sparked one of the week's longest threads.
185 HP — @ibarra95: Heavy rains flood the main park "La Turbina" in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba — 538 votes, 17 comments. On-the-ground reporting from Cuba.
Don't miss: @avdesing Málaga hiking (140 HP, 50 comments) · @oldmans Cape Kiwanda dunes (140 HP, 26 comments)
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