Last week I introduced Hive Invite Cards — a system for creating physical and digital invite cards that let anyone claim a Hive account in under a minute with just a QR code and a PIN. Today I'm announcing the launch of HiveInvite.com, a dashboard that makes it possible for anyone to become an onboarder — and earn from it. Every account you bring to Hive can mean ongoing beneficiary rewards on their posts. The more successful the people you onboard, the more you earn. Bring the right person to Hive and a single invite card could pay for itself many times over.
First, a special thanks to 
What's New: The Issuer Dashboard
The Issuer Dashboard lets anyone generate and manage their own invite cards. If you have account creation tokens or are willing to spend 3 HIVE per account, you can start onboarding people right now.
Here's how to get started:
- Head to hiveinvite.com/dashboard
- Sign in with Hive Keychain
- Submit an issuer application (a brief description of how you plan to use the cards)
- Once approved, choose your deployment mode (more on this below)
- Start generating batches of invite cards immediately
If you have account creation tokens sitting unused — and the network has nearly 5 million of them — or you're willing to spend 3 HIVE per account, you can start onboarding people today. The entire system is open source.
Two Ways to Run It
A key design goal is flexibility around trust. There are two paths to becoming an issuer:
Delegated authority — You delegate active authority on your Hive account to the operator's service account. The service then creates accounts on your behalf. This is the quickest way to get started: delegate, generate your cards, and go. You can revoke the delegation at a later point, though you may make your own invites non redeemable. The tradeoff is that you're trusting the operator with active authority on your account, which is a significant level of trust. A standalone key monitoring tool is available that anyone can run independently to audit what the service account does with delegated authority — it watches on-chain operations and alerts via Telegram if anything unexpected happens.
If you're willing to spend 3 Hive per invite, this does not need to be your "main" Hive account. Just give it enough Hive to fulfill redemptions and enough HP to issue HP delegations (which you can revoke at your own discretion).
Please find a detailed guide to becoming an onboarder with delegated authority here.
Self-hosted — You run the gift card service yourself using Docker and register your service's public URL in the dashboard. The dashboard becomes a UI layer only — all signing and account creation happens on your infrastructure with your own keys. No trust delegation required. This is ideal for organizations, app developers, or anyone who wants full sovereignty over the process.
Please find a detailed guide to running your own service here.
Both modes support the same features: batch generation, PDF card downloads, QR codes, card tracking, and on-chain batch declarations.
Built-in Referrals
Every batch you generate can include a referrer account. Here's how the flow works end-to-end: someone scans your invite card, claims their account, and lands directly on PeakD — ready to start posting. Because your username is recorded as the referrer in the new account's metadata (using the Hive Account Referral open standard developed by 
The referrer doesn't have to be the issuer. If you have account creation tokens but not the time to hand out cards yourself, you can generate batches with someone else's name as the referrer — a community organizer going to events, a content creator with a large audience, or anyone actively bringing people in. They earn the referral rewards, you provide the accounts. This issuer-distributor model means the people doing the onboarding work are the ones who benefit.
In a future update, issuers will be able to customize which app new users are directed to after account creation.
What Each Batch Gives You
When you generate a batch, you get:
- PDF cards ready to print or share digitally — each card has a unique QR code and 6-character PIN
- English and Chinese card languages (more coming soon)
- Auto-follow and community subscriptions — new accounts automatically follow up to 20 accounts and join up to 10 communities of your choosing
- Card expiry — configurable from days to a full year
- Batch manifests for tracking which cards have been claimed
- On-chain declarations — every batch is recorded on the blockchain with a Merkle root, creating an immutable, verifiable audit trail
What's Not Ready Yet
Transparency about what's still in progress:
- Telegram and Discord bot distribution — The bots exist and work, but they haven't been updated for multi-tenant use yet. Currently, running bot-based distribution requires setting up your own bot instance. This is planned but not yet available as a turnkey feature through the dashboard.
- Custom card designs — The system supports fully customizable card designs (colors, logos, backgrounds, fonts, layout), but the dashboard doesn't yet let you select a design. Currently all cards use the default Hive Community design. See below if you'd like your own.
Want Your Own Card Design?
The card system supports fully custom designs — your own colors, logo, background image, fonts, and layout. If you'd like a personalized card design for your community or project, send me a design spec with:
- Colors — primary brand color, body text, muted text, PIN box colors (background, border, text), and optional page background. All as hex codes (e.g.
#E5222A). - Logo — a PNG image and where to place it: top-left, top-center, or top-right.
- Background image (optional) — a PNG or JPG, and whether it should appear on the front, back, or both sides of the card.
- Custom font (optional) — a TTF or OTF file for body and heading text.
- Card size — default is A6 landscape (148mm x 105mm, UK postcard size). You can specify custom dimensions if needed.
- Layout tweaks (optional) — QR code size, margins, whether to show To/From lines on the back.
- Text overrides (optional) — custom wording for the invitation message, PIN instructions, or any other card text.
I can add your design to the system and make it available for your batches. Reach out on Hive or via the contact info on HiveInvite.com.
Hive's onboarding numbers have been declining. This is infrastructure anyone can pick up and use. If you run a community, build an app, organize events, or just want to invite friends — get started here.