Hive’s game layer hit an inflection point this week: @risingstargame posted an official future-of-Rising-Star announcement while @keychain opened multichain closed beta—and @ninaeatshere’s Madrid meetup invite still claimed 228 HP, carrying the meetup energy from issue #82’s Alicante thread.
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Editor's Take
Three plot lines converged.
First, long-running games are no longer background noise. Rising Star broke the week with a headline post about where the music game goes next—on the same calendar as Splinterlands’ Electroneum Voltage event and a fresh SarmacjaMundi beta guide on C/HiveDevs. Hive’s play-to-earn catalog is aging in public, not in silence.
Second, discovery became an engineering problem. @iamkaye earned 218 HP on an SEO post; @ecency, @pharesim, and @friendlymoose shipped tools for search and account health. The content is fine—the index is the bottleneck.
Third, trust moved to the wallet edge. Hive Keychain entered multichain closed beta while Magi answered the Hive Engine breach with a public statement and a security report—two reminders that user keys and second-layer markets share the same reputation budget.
The Story of the Week: Rising Star’s Future—and a Meetup Circuit That Won’t Quit
On May 23, @risingstargame posted Important Announcement Regarding The Future of Rising Star. It is a rare official reset note from one of Hive’s oldest music games. Read the post for details—the big picture is that a flagship game is telling its story on-chain instead of going quiet.
The same week brought Splinterlands’ Electroneum × Voltage event and beta buzz from SarmacjaMundi, a strategy game that uses Hive Keychain, HBD, and Hive Engine parcels with block-hash turns.
The meetup thread from issue #82 kept rolling. @ninaeatshere’s Madrid Hive Meetup invite ranked #2 in weekly author rewards at 228 HP, with 61 comments and 1,198 votes. @enraizar’s Alicante recap still made the top ten (148 HP, 93 comments).
Development Pulse
Core devs merged balance-class fixes and a patch for first payouts that were too large. Hivemind added endpoints for pending author and curation rewards. Hivesense improved sync reliability; Wax got a small chain-data fix.
On C/HiveDevs, @friendlymoose launched an account health dashboard; @inertia shipped Let’s Hive Together; @sagarkothari88 integrated a unified Snaps feed in HiveSuite; @thecrazygm added language filters to HiveTools; and @ecoinstant added Markdown downloads for agents on HiveTools.
3Speak merged pay-per-listen tracking and playlist APIs in 3speakchecks, alongside the encoder network’s Week 24 report.
Project Spotlights
Rising Star — @risingstargame: official post on the game’s future.
Hive Keychain — @keychain: multichain closed beta.
Ecency — @ecency on infrastructure role; @ecency on SEO changes.
Magi Network — @magi.network on the Hive Engine breach; security report for Feb–May.
Splinterlands — @splinterlands: Electroneum × Voltage event.
3Speak — @threespeak: Encoder Network Week 24.
Actifit — @actifit: Android v0.14.0 “Momentum”.
PeakD (via 
Worldmappin — Travel Digest #2925 and daily series #2921–#2925.
Network Stats
| Metric | This week |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.06021 |
| HIVE market cap | ~$32.9M |
| CoinGecko rank | #657 |
| 24h change | −0.41% |
| HBD print rate | 0 (no new HBD minting) |
| HIVE powered up (7d) | 421,115 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down (7d) | 477,558 HIVE |
| Net stake change | −56,443 HIVE |
HBD explained: HBD is Hive’s dollar-pegged token. When too much HBD exists relative to HIVE value, the chain can stop minting new HBD—print rate 0 means that brake is on now. Treasury HBD in 
Powering up: Net power-down this week, with big single moves still landing—including 100,000 HIVE from 
Governance
Twenty of the top 21 witnesses run v1.28.3. deathwing is still on v1.28.0.
Funded DHF proposals (paid above Return Proposal #0):
- #377 HBD Stabilizer — Renewal R2-2026 — 12,000 HBD/day
- #368 Ecosystem Operations, Bizdev and Growth Retroactive — 1,000 HBD/day
- #350 Development of several new open source projects — 490 HBD/day
- #360 Hive Dev Proposal #2 — 415 HBD/day
- #336 Ecency development and maintenance #5 — 300 HBD/day
- #293 Hivewatchers & Spaminator Operational — 95 HBD/day
Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups
- Most powered up — 7 days |
- Most powered up — 7 days (self) |
— 97,346 HIVE
- Total Hive powered up — 7 days | 421,115 HIVE
- Total Hive powered down — 7 days | 477,558 HIVE
Top Community Posts This Week
HP means Hive Power—the staked token weight that drives author rewards on posts, not “horsepower.”
- 232 HP — @plantfuljourney: Start of the gardening season — 1,240 votes, 23 comments. Strong seasonal photo post.
- 228 HP — @ninaeatshere: Invitación: Madrid Hive Meetup | 15-05-2026 — 1,198 votes, 61 comments. Kept the Iberian meetup arc alive after Alicante.
- 218 HP — @iamkaye: Why Google Doesn't Hate Hive (It Just Can't Find Us) — 956 votes, 61 comments. Clear SEO case for off-chain discovery.
- 199 HP — @louis88: Yet another Hive Proposals Frontend (with more Details) — 477 votes, 38 comments. New UI for reading DHF proposals.
- 198 HP — @asgarth: PeakD updates: Magi swaps, decent memes and nicer code blocks — 480 votes, 71 comments. PeakD polish plus Magi swaps.
Don't miss
- @theycallmedan: Hive AI aka deAI Preview Pt 2 — 161 HP, 760 votes
- @enraizar: Hive Open Days: Alicante 2026 — 148 HP, 1,033 votes
- @livinguktaiwan: Day trip to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay — 150 HP, 663 votes
- @claudio83: Join pools to get resources! — 151 HP
- @cadawg: HIVEMIND solo-play update
Top tippers (7d): @gamingphoto, @geneeverett, and @silversaver888 led at roughly 3.6, 2.2, and 1.5 HBD tipped.
Posting streaks: @tarazkp (3,110 days), @bradleyarrow (2,484), @elizabethbit and @silvertop (2,455 each).
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