@ecency posted an honest funding update Friday: DHF votes fell short, service changes are coming, and running a full Hive frontend is not free. The same week brought Ecency Mobile 3.5.7 with a Shorts-style Waves tab, a July 1 Hive Power Up Day that moved real stake, and a DHF table down to four funded lines — the HBD Stabilizer no longer clears the return threshold. Net flow still favored exits: about 2.0 million HIVE powered down versus 898,000 up.
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Infrastructure bills arrived in public. @ecency's Keeping Ecency Running post named the gap between what the Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) pays and what it costs to run Ecency's web app, mobile apps, and Waves short-form feed. @curamax had already argued for the Ecency proposal from the community side. @beggars made a parallel point: Hive apps are cheap to build; reliable hosting, APIs, and staff are not.
Product work did not pause for the spreadsheet. @ecency leveled up Waves on mobile 3.5.7 — including a Shorts-style reel tab — while @ecency shipped wallet safety improvements in the same release train. GitHub merged the Shorts tab and feed-badge work in ecency-mobile the same window.
July 1 was Hive Power Up Day. @shortsegments ran the event post; @hivebuzz published feedback afterward. @friendlymoose added 140 HIVE; @gungunkrishu marked 320,000 Hive Power on his account. The chain still net-powered down for the week — HPUD is a ritual, not a guarantee of macro inflows.
Builders kept the commit log loud. @sagarkothari88 added 3Speak audio playback to HiveReactKit and smarter node routing; @sagarkothari88 landed Re-Snaps, a meme maker, and Twitter embeds in HiveSuite. @seattlea shipped weekly-author analytics dashboards. @acidyo pre-announced Hive Subs — a subscription layer worth watching. @hdev shipped HivePulse v1.9.0 with Firefox support and a For You page.
On governance: only four DHF proposals now sit above the return line, down from five in issue #88. The HBD Stabilizer is off the funded list this week. HBD print rate remains zero. For how that debt pause works, see issue #75.
Core infrastructure this week focused on packaging, APIs, and notification polish — not a new hard fork.
Core node: hive/hive merged multi-arch Docker images for mainnet and mirrornet, a testnet account-creation fee fix, and dependency updates. Witnesses still run Hard Fork 28 (mostly v1.28.3; @good-karma on v1.28.6). No Hard Fork 29 activation on mainnet.
hivemind: Fixed single-mention notifications so they no longer append a useless “and 0 others” suffix.
HAF tooling: Balance tracker added VESTS range filters for top holders; the block explorer now surfaces pending HBD interest fields on account lookups.
Ecency mobile: Shorts tab for Waves, source badges on feed cards, and removal of legacy SPK Network support — all merged on GitHub in the past seven days.
3Speak: The encoder repo moved to an embed-only v2 architecture with display-aspect-ratio fixes; new-3speak-tv merged a develop batch toward the desktop TV experience.
HiveDevs feed: @sagarkothari88 HiveReactKit audio + nodes · @seattlea curator analytics · @dudeontheweb HiveDrop micro-post composer · @imwatsi FreeBeings DAO relaunch
Ecency: @ecency funding transparency post · Mobile 3.5.7 Waves Shorts · wallet safety release
HiveSuite / HiveReactKit: @sagarkothari88 Re-Snaps, meme maker, Twitter embeds, API failover, inline replies — daily cadence on C/HiveDevs
Keychain: @keychain Multichain Explorer Challenge — one week left on the community contest
3Speak: @threespeak encoder network report week 25; encoder v2 refactor on GitHub
HivePulse: @hdev v1.9.0 — Firefox extension, For You page, action-focused refresh
Analytics: @seattlea weekly author dashboards · @arcange June 2026 financial statistics
Games: @splinterlands collector binders coming to card collections · @wrestorgonline WOO Battle Pass Season 2
Community tools: @beggars HiveHeist vault game · @x-rain HivePosh now rewards shares beyond Reddit
| Metric | This week |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.0518 |
| HIVE market cap | ~$28.5M |
| HBD trading price | ~$1.02 |
| HBD trading market cap | ~$33.5M |
| CoinGecko rank | #668 |
| 24h change (HIVE) | +0.26% |
| HBD print rate | 0 (no new HBD minting) |
| HIVE powered up (7d) | 897,534 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down (7d) | 2,008,071 HIVE |
| Net stake change | -1,110,537 HIVE |
HBD explained: HBD is Hive's dollar token. When debt gets too high, the chain stops minting new HBD. Print rate zero means that pause is still on. Trading prices and chain math differ. Full explainer: issue #75.
Powering up: July 1 HPUD moved real stake — @cannonwar and @smartvote led the seven-day table at 250,000 and 210,000 HIVE respectively — but power-downs still doubled power-ups for the week.
Twenty of the top 21 witnesses run v1.28.3. @good-karma runs v1.28.6; deathwing remains on v1.28.0. The network stays on Hard Fork 28.
Funded DHF proposals (paid above Return Proposal #0):
The HBD Stabilizer (#377) did not appear above the return threshold this week — down from five funded lines in issue #88.
Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups
@cannonwar 250,000 · 
@smartvote 210,000 · 
@rozioo 54,129 · 
@slobberchops 49,043 · 
@magicmonk 45,515@smartvote 616,916 · @cannonwar 250,000 · 
@pouchon 206,894 · 
@planetoceana 200,716 · 
@bcc 115,072398 HP — @livinguktaiwan: Things to do in Murcia, Spain — 1,281 votes, 48 comments. Travel guide with strong curation backing.
380 HP — @livinguktaiwan: Nine years on Hive and staying — 1,227 votes, 161 comments. Long-timer reflection that became one of the week's biggest threads.
277 HP — @friendlymoose: A long and hot hike around 's Hertogenbosch — 974 votes, 17 comments. Summer heat meets Dutch countryside photography.
234 HP — @palomap3: Festival Zaragoza Florece 2026 — 1,263 votes, 73 comments. Street festival coverage from Zaragoza.
225 HP — @solominer: Desfrán – Day 97 — 505 votes, 19 comments. Daily life series from a consistent poster.
Don't miss: @honeydue asked a blunt onboarding question — If you found Hive today, would you stay? — with 170 HP and a comment thread worth reading alongside Ecency's funding post.
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