It's been a while since I looked at some of the curation options for the various tokens in the Hive ecosystem. There have been some changes since my last post on the matter, so let's update everything.
All of us have handfuls of these tokens. Many of us sell them on the open market, but many others hold on to them. Having all these tokens is great for Hive, but it does present a rather large problem: since voting power is linked between these tribes, if we want to curate, we can't effectively do so in all of them and Hive itself.
One solution to this problem is create new accounts for every tribe we want to curate in and delegate the token to that account. The popular way to do this is use our hive name.tribe. I'm sure we can all see these all over. I even have one (@dbooster.spt). This method does have some advantages, such as giving us full control over what gets curated, but it also has some disadvantages, such as time involved.
Another solution is to delegate the token to mass curation accounts. They then do the curation and send us back the profit, minus a fee for their service. It is these services that I want to look at in this post.
There are now, as far as I know, three large curation services. 1) Cartel 2) Bro 3) LOLZ. Cartel pays you back in the token you delegate. Bro and LOLZ pay you back in their own token, which is BRO and LOLZ.
Let's go through these. I'll start with the simplest to use.
BRO
EDIT: A week after I published this, Brofi died. Unfortunately the guy who coded it has been MIA from Hive for a number of months and many of his services across Hive are starting to break, Brofi among them. @raymondspeaks has said he intends to rebuild Brofi, but it may be some time since he doesn't have access to any of the previous code. So for the moment, don't delegate to Brofi.
BRO is run by @raymondspeaks. If you don't know what BRO is, you can think of it as an index fund. If you hold the token, they will send you a small percentage of a large number of tokens. It's an interesting way to gain a lot of exposure to many different tokens.
Bro is simple. Delegate almost anything to @brofi and they will send a daily payment in BRO. And I do mean almost anything. You can go to their discord to find a full list, but as of this posting you can delegate the following to them:
ALIVE, ASH, BLQ, BUILD, CCC, CENT, CINE, CTP, FOODIE, INFOWARS, JAHM, KANDA, LASSIECASH, LEO, LIST, LOTUS, MEME, NEOXAG, PAL, PALM, PALMM, POB, SAND, SPACO, SPORTS, SPT, STEM, VIBES, WAIV, WEED, WORKERBEE
Now keep in mind that some of these pay very little, so if you'd like to delegate to @brofi, you should probably visit their Discord and check the current rates.
Cartel
Cartel, run by @flauwy, is a little more complex. Rather than just running one account that you can delegate everything to, they run several accounts each of which curates that tribe specifically. Delegate to any of them and they will send you daily payments of that token. Here are the accounts they run:
| Token | Curation Account |
|---|---|
| BEE | @bee-curator |
| CCC | @ccc-curator |
| CINE | @cine-curator |
| CTP | @ctp-curator |
| LEO | @leo-curator |
| MEME | @meme-curator |
| NEOXAG | @neoxag-curator |
| ONEUP | @oneup-curator |
| PAL | @pal-curator |
| PIMP | @pimp-curator |
| POB | @pob-curator |
| SPT | @monster-curator |
| VIBES | @vibes-curator |
| VYB | @vyb-curator |
| WEED | @weed-curator |
For example, say I have some MEME that I want to delegate. I would delegate it to @meme-curator. Then almost everyday I will get a payment of MEME back from @meme-curator.
Since the last time I posted about this subject, they have added @pimp-curator. As I am personally involved in PIMP, I have to give a huge thumbs up to this addition.
LOLZ
LOLZ is run by @lolztoken. This is a fun little token that lets you tip people and gives a joke while doing so. The tipping tokens are already fun, which is why I think most of us use them, but the silly joke from LOLZ just makes it even more fun!
This is a little like BRO in that they only pay you in their own token LOLZ, and it's a little like Cartel in that they have many accounts and you have to delegate the correct token to the correct account.
Here is a list:
| Token | Curation Account |
|---|---|
| ALIVE | @lolz.alive |
| BEATZ | @lolz.btcz |
| BEE | @lolz.bee |
| CENT | @lolz.cent |
| CINE | @lolz.cine |
| CTP | @lolz.ctp |
| DUNK | @lolz.dunk |
| LIST | @lolz.list |
| MEME | @lolz.cent |
| MEME | @lolz.meme |
| NEOXAG | @lolz.nxg |
| ONEUP | @lolz.oneup |
| PIMP | @lolz.pimp |
| SPORTS | @lolz.sports |
| SPT | @lolz.spt |
| THGAMING | @lolz.thg |
| VIBES | @lolz.vibes |
| WAIV | @lolz.waiv |
| WEED | @lolz.weed |
There are a few additional things LOLZ offers, but they are outside what I'm covering here. If interested, go read about them.
Smaller Players
There is also @meowcurator run by @deathwing and @rishi556. If you delegate your LEO to @meowcurator, they will send you a daily payment in LEO. They also offer an interesting service: if you send them a .001 LEO memo with the message "auto" they will send you the daily payment in MEOWLEO instead of LEO. They also send you a daily payment of LEO based on how much MEOWLEO you are holding, making this something of an auto-compound option
(if you want auto turned off, send a .001 LEO memo with the message "manual")
If you have WORKERBEE you can also delegate it to @neoxianminer, @ph1102, or @archonbank. @ph1102 will send you a weekly payment of BEE and the other two will send daily payments of BEE.
Conclusion
Well, that's about it. If I missed any, please let me know. I am always looking to add new services to my master list.
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