TLDR; the hive DHF is now fully centralized. If you want to be funded, you need 35M in community votes AND Blocktrades’ personal 26M vote

If you have the community support, but not Blocktrades, you won’t get any funding

Only 3 projects currently have over 35M in community support: INLEO, Keychain and Ecency

INLEO and Keychain have the community’s backing but not Blocktrades, so we are not funded.

Ecency has both the community and Blocktrades, so they are funded.

I am not speaking out too much about this as I think it needs to come from the community - since I clearly have a horse in this race.

Having 1 person control the DHF is an existential risk to Hive. I think the Hive community should band together and petition Blocktrades to fully abstain from governance voting. As someone who maintains the core chain activities + owns 26M HP, it’s a centralization risk.

This can’t come from me, it must come from the community