Top Hive Earners by Category | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest | May 2024

Hive has multiple methods to distribute inflation that helps its token distribution and stay decentralized. With the addition of the HBD savings interest there is now a total of six ways the inflation on Hive is distributed: authors, curators, staking, witness, DHF and HBD interest.

Here we will be looking at the overall inflation distribution for HIVE, looking at the following

• Authors rewards
• Curators rewards
• Witnesses rewards
• DHF/DAO rewards
• HBD interest
• Cumulative rewards

Top Authors

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive authors that earned the most in the month.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on VESTS to HIVE, for simplification. Also some of the top beneficiaries like the hbdstabilizator, reward.app and 3speak are excluded.

I have made a breakdown in the author and beneficiary rewards.
Author rewards are one of the most know in the blockchain as a lot of users are attracted for them.

@oflyhigh is on the top followed by @manujune.

There are around 8.2k accounts that have received rewards in May 2024. The median payout is 14 HIVE, while the average is around 87 HIVE.

Top Curators

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive curators that earned the most in the month.

@appreciator is on the top here, followed by @alpha and @blocktrades.

The accounts above are the biggest curators on the Hive blockchain. Hope they will do a great job in curating and making this place grow.

Top Witnesses

The top witnesses’ earnings charts look like this.

I have included more than 20 accounts in this chart to show the drop in earnings after the 20th spot. The top 20 are earning around the same amount of HIVE (HP), around 10k per month.

There seems to be a healthy competition among witness now, especially around the 20th spot.

The DHF/DAO Payouts

Accounts that received funding from the DHF/DAO in the period.

DHF workers are paid in HBD, and the numbers above are in HBD.

A total of 20 accounts received funding in May 2024.

The @valueplan account is on the top here followed by @keychain, @vsc.network, @peak.open, @leofinance, @fund.dbuzz etc.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, with almost 360k HBD received in the month, but since technically it’s not keeping those funds, it is excluded from the list.

Top HBD Interest Earners

Here is the chart.

The @lazy-panda is on the top here with 30k HBD, followed by @newsflash and @alpha. @lazy-panda has even increased its savings and is now closing on 2M HBD.

Top Earners Cumulative

From the data above we can compile the payout for a single ranking on overall top earners on the Hive blockchain in May 2024.

Here is the chart.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on HBD to HIVE implemented, and VESTS to HIVE, for simplification.

I have separated the different earnings for the top accounts accordingly.

The @valueplan account is on the top, followed by @lazy-panda, @appreaciator, @blocktrades, etc.
Mostly DHF and curation accounts on the top, but some HBD interest accounts as well.

All the best
@dalz

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P.S. Most of the Hivers want to check the author rewards so here is a longer table with the top 100.

Rank	Author	Total	Auhtors rewards	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	222,694	0	222,694
2	null	37,475	0	37,475
3	reward.app	12,695	0	12,695
4	spk.beneficiary	5,933	0	5,933
5	oflyhigh	3,419	3,419	0
6	manujune	3,104	1,821	1,283
7	taskmaster4450le	2,571	994	1,576
8	cryptoandcoffee	2,368	2,368	0
9	kkarenmp	2,303	2,303	0
10	tarazkp	2,120	2,120	0
11	trumpman	2,014	2,014	0
12	alokkumar121	1,915	1,852	63
13	erikah	1,821	1,787	34
14	khaleelkazi	1,808	1,808	0
15	sagarkothari88	1,788	1,305	483
16	mcsamm	1,780	1,779	1
17	lordbutterfly	1,776	1,776	0
18	leofinance	1,720	180	1,540
19	edicted	1,660	1,660	0
20	collinz	1,587	1,587	0
21	mango-juice	1,568	1,568	0
22	galenkp	1,564	1,564	1
23	daveks	1,551	1,543	8
24	hivefest	1,528	1,044	484
25	tattoodjay	1,521	1,519	2
26	papilloncharity	1,443	1,413	29
27	steemychicken1	1,425	1,425	0
28	bdvoter.cur	1,422	1,422	0
29	bozz	1,415	1,415	0
30	pinmapple	1,408	1,408	0
31	dalz	1,367	1,367	0
32	mipiano	1,365	1,266	99
33	liketu	1,349	0	1,349
34	verbal-d	1,340	1,340	0
35	revisesociology	1,334	1,334	0
36	bitcoinflood	1,295	1,295	0
37	macchiata	1,258	521	737
38	anggreklestari	1,244	1,061	183
39	slobberchops	1,222	1,222	0
40	castleberry	1,197	67	1,130
41	detlev	1,183	1,183	0
42	acesontop	1,176	1,176	0
43	danielcarrerag	1,170	1,170	0
44	eddiespino	1,163	942	221
45	pravesh0	1,158	750	407
46	ifarmgirl	1,147	1,129	19
47	irenenavarroart	1,133	1,133	0
48	silversaver888	1,114	1,078	36
49	baibuaza	1,111	1,111	0
50	ewkaw	1,095	1,045	50
51	riverflows	1,048	1,048	0
52	gooddream	1,042	975	68
53	hive.fund	1,021	0	1,021
54	silviared945	1,014	1,014	0
55	bala41288	1,013	1,013	0
56	incublus	999	991	9
57	omarcitorojas	999	999	0
58	mrspointm	972	972	0
59	olujay	971	901	71
60	malos10	969	966	3
61	zing.fund	959	0	959
62	lauramica	936	779	157
63	rivalhw	931	931	0
64	alexa.art	929	929	0
65	ramisey	926	885	41
66	taskmaster4450	924	924	0
67	bhattg	924	844	80
68	jychbetter	921	921	0
69	lucianav	920	920	0
70	wendyth16	916	916	0
71	aswita	914	914	0
72	josediccus	911	911	0
73	libertycrypto27	900	900	0
74	nathyortiz	883	883	0
75	fotostef	876	874	2
76	alcibiades	873	755	118
77	steemflow	870	866	4
78	yolimarag	865	766	99
79	dbooster	859	831	27
80	thisismylife	853	849	4
81	plantfuljourney	853	853	0
82	zullyscott	849	849	0
83	josehany	841	841	0
84	hallmann	838	838	0
85	blocktrades	833	833	0
86	bxt	831	831	0
87	jlinaresp	827	817	10
88	flemingfarm	824	824	0
89	netflixr	821	821	0
90	atyh	819	819	0
91	mattsanthonyit	819	819	0
92	vinzie1	819	819	0
93	almightygrim	814	814	0
94	dojeda	809	809	0
95	actifit.pay	796	0	796
96	vikisecrets	795	795	0
97	michupa	793	793	0
98	yulilemus	792	792	0
99	emilydbr	792	792	0
100	equipodelta	782	760	22