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The era of “high APR” bonuses has served its purpose. It helped us grow an initial base of Hive Power and community support, and for that, we’re grateful. But as we head into 2026, it’s time to evolve.
Today, we’re excited to announce a shift to a 100% sustainable, curation-based reward model for all Hive Power (HP) delegators to Hive account@helios.voter.

🔄 What’s Changing?

Previously, our delegation program included fixed high-APR bonuses that relied on temporary incentives. While effective for growth, those bonuses were not designed to last indefinitely.
Going forward, we are transitioning to a 100% Curation Share model, with additional trading-revenue bonuses when market conditions allow.
Instead of paying out a flat percentage that can exceed actual earnings, we will now distribute:

100% of our weekly curation rewards, shared directly with delegators
A percentage of trading revenue, added opportunistically to the reward pool
This ensures rewards are always backed by real, on-chain performance.

⚖️ Fair Share for All — Beginning Wednesday, January 7

To reinforce a truly fair and transparent ecosystem, our largest delegator, Hive account@coininstant, will now participate in the same reward pool as everyone else.
Why this matters.
Historically, a significant portion of the elevated Holiday APR came from Hive account@coininstant voluntarily sharing his curation stake with the community. While generous, this also meant APR levels were artificially boosted beyond what normalized curation alone could sustain.
Starting January 7:

Every unit of Hive Power — from the minimum 1 HP to the largest stake — is treated equally
100% of curation rewards are split weekly
No hidden boosts, exclusions, or special treatment
This creates a clean, fair baseline that can scale long-term.

📊 Transparency & Real Earnings

We will continue to use Hivestats.io to publicly track our curation performance.

Our power-down route to helios.delegator has been set
Weekly power-downs will be adjusted to closely match real curation earnings
Current curation APR sits just under 7%
For context:
Before the hard fork — when HIVE prices were higher — our curation APR typically ranged from 10–12%+. As HIVE prices declined, curation rewards naturally followed.
The upside is simple and transparent:
As HIVE prices recover, curation APR rises
As APR rises, the shared reward pool grows
Better content curation directly increases returns for everyone
Internally, we’re also refining curation rules and processes to improve efficiency and maximize long-term performance.
This power down amount will be adjusted weekly to correlate with real weekly curation levels form hivestats.io

📈 Why This Is Better for Delegators

While the days of “super-high” APR are behind us, this new structure creates a stronger and healthier HELIOS ecosystem:

Curation + Inflation Rewards
These curation payouts are in addition to the 20% APR distributed daily from remaining HELIOS token inflation. While inflation returns vary with market prices, combining them with normalized curation yields competitive, sustainable returns for HP delegators.
Trading Revenue Upside
When market conditions are favorable, we will share a portion of our trading revenue with delegators. Our focus remains on Crypto and AI-related investments, sectors where we aim to capture outsized gains during bullish cycles.
Aligned Incentives
This model directly rewards quality. Better content leads to stronger curation performance — which increases weekly payouts for everyone involved.

🛠 Looking Ahead

It’s always bittersweet to close a high-growth chapter. But replacing it with a stable, transparent, and sustainable program is the responsible path forward.
Hive account@helios.voter remains fully committed to rewarding its supporters — not just today, but for years to come.

So just to recap...

The next delegation payment coming in about 13 hours will be the last HIGH APR payout before we shift into the new sustainable curation based model as detailed in the above post.

As a side note:
pob.voter rewards and bee.voter rewards will also shift to a 100% curation reward system. Rewards for those programs will be lower but consistent with the same real world maximized curation value one would derive from curating with said delegated amounts. It will be fair, but we mention it here because we had to end those programs from being subsidized in order to enable our main HIVEPOWER delegation program described in this post to be fair and balanced. Days of the easy BEE and POB returns are over but compared to curating with those tokens yourself it will be far better to continue to delegate BEE to Hive account@bee.voter and POB to Hive account@pob.voter. More information about this will be announced on their respective channels once the program is finalized.