Daily update

Doing the Math: (Actual upvotes)

Vote Value	% of max vote	HELIOS burned	HBD Value	Hive Price	Hive Value	Deemed Value
0.036 HBD	1.9%	1	0.018	0.064	0.281	.216
1.876 HBD	98.1%	50	0.938	0.064	0.293	.225
1.924 HBD	100	41.08	.962	0.064	0.35	.269

_{Note: Hive Value = HBD value / Hive Price}
_{Note: Deemed value = Hive Value / 1.3}

What stood out this time?

First: .216 and .225 between the first two votes seems like a different amount. However, look a little closer and it is just a rounding error. Do a little math and it seems the error is just that Hive only goes to three decimal places. In that regard larger burn values likely pay marginally better payouts

Second thing? I am responsible for placing that 3rd number on the list. The one that got the much higher vote value. When I was going to hit the "burn" button I noticed that it said the Helios price was 0.170. I took that to mean I was going to be a much lower than usual upvote. So I tried something. I bought one HELIOS token at full market sell price. I hit refresh and market price said 0.270. I did the burn and guess what? HELIOS tokens needed for maximum vote went down.

Interesting

Another interesting thing is that the stated value of HELIOS when the full vote was made was .270. Nothing strange there as that was the stated book SELL value. However, if you do a little math and assume 30% return as the Hive account@helios.voter page says the book value should be .281. However, if you assume a return of 35%? Then it becomes .270. Maybe the dev's put a 5% margin in there to keep people from getting burned?

Something I'll have to look into on further posts.

Burn Value

Date	Helios Burn	Burn Value in HBD
March 13, 2026	1	0.018
March 12, 2026	1	0.024
March 11, 2026	1	0.018
March 9, 2026	1	0.027
March 8, 2026	1	0.026
March 7, 2026	1	0.025
March 6, 2026	1	0.026

Rewards

0.215 daily holding reward on 352.565 HELIOS held
0.216 daily delegation reward on 101 HP

Delegation Value

Date	Delegated to helios.voter	Helios Reward	HBD Value	Hive Value	Percent
March 13, 2026	101	0.216	0.00389	0.0608	21.97
March 12, 2026	101	0.208	0.005	0.0792	28.63
March 11, 2026	101	0.255	0.00459	0.0717	25.92
March 9 2026	101	0.242	0.0065	0.1037	37.48
March 8, 2026	101	0.242	0.0062	0.101
March 7, 2026	101	0.208	0.0052	0.083
March 6, 2026	101	0.296	0.008	0.125

_{Note: HBD Value = Helios Reward x Burn value

Note: Hive Value = HBD Value / Hive price

Note: Percent = (Hive value * 365)/Hive Delegated * 100%}

Holding Reward

Date	Helios Held	Helios Reward	% return
March 13, 2026	352.565	.215	22.26
March 12, 2026	351.134	.205	21.31
March 11, 2026	351.72	.238	24.67
March 9, 2026	351.214	.238	24.73
March 8, 2026	340.734	.238
March 7, ,2026	349.876	.2
March 6, 2026	349.	.280	Top 69 (350 Helios) to earn

_{(note: This account is currently #69 I looked at those below my in list and they didn't get the holder bonus.)

Note: Percent return = (Helios Reward * 365)/Helios Held * 100%}

Buy/Sell wall values

Date	Buy Max	Sell Min	Break even if burned	Helios deemed value at 30% return
March 13, 2026	0.170	0.2649	0.281	0.216
March 12, 2026	0.164	0.270	0.381	0.293
March 11, 2026	0.164	0.270	0.281	0.216
March 9, 2026	0.172	0.289	0.429
March 8, 2026	0.171	0.270	0.419
March7, 2026	0.1922	0.300	0.418
March 6, 2026	0.192	0.375	0.418

_{Note: DEEMED value is burned value / 1.3}

Doing the math lets you see the profit (or loss) more clearly.

Just for fun and certainly not financial advice. Using current BUY and SELL values with yesterdays upvote / burn value here is the % profit (or loss) from burning.

BURN	BUY	Yield	SELL	Yield
.281	.170	65%	.2649	6%

65% return of 6% return all depending on what price you bought the HELIOS token at. I really want to figure out what makes it tick so I can always get the higher number :)

Why a semi daily post?

HELIOS is an awesome token.

HOLD the token and you get Helios rewards (if you are top 70)
BURN the token and you get a strong curation upvote
DELEGATE the token and you get HP weekly and HELIOS daily.

Look at the three examples of the burn value over the past day. A single vote was .281 but after that were .293 and .35. Those changes are HUGE. Now the 0.281 and 0.293 values can be explained by a rounding difference but the .35 value I'm still working on that.

So, I'm posting daily to get a running log of how things work to see how my current favorite token handles over a longer period.

Helios March 13: Daily Buy/Sell/Burn.