You Can Now Gift Lottery Tickets on Hive Lotto, Plus A Better Creation Flow

Another strong upgrade just landed on Hive Lotto: https://hive-lotto.app

You can now gift lottery tickets directly from the app, and at the same time the custom lottery creation flow has been cleaned up so it is easier to understand and much fairer in how it presents fees.

So this is not just a gifting update.

It is also a quality-of-life update for creators.

What’s New

• You can now gift lottery entries to another existing Hive account from the Hive Lotto UI.
• The gifted user becomes the actual ticket holder.
• Their gifted ticket counts toward their entry total and their odds.
• If that ticket wins, the prize goes to the recipient.
• The recipient gets an on-chain notification memo letting them know they were sent an entry.
• The custom lottery create flow now explains fee logic much more clearly before you submit.
• Hive custom lotteries now make it clear that the creator cut is a share of the house fee, not a cut of the full prize pool.
• Hive-Engine token lotteries have been simplified to burn-first economics:
  • creators still pay the 1 HIVE creation fee
  • there is no creator fee cut
  • there is no extra platform fee on the token pool
  • token lotteries now focus on seed pool, entry fee, end mode, and burn %

Gifting: How It Works

The gifting flow is simple:

• Open any active lottery.
• Choose the gift option.
• Enter the Hive username you want to send the ticket to.
• Confirm the transfer the same way you normally would.

From there, Hive Lotto handles the rest.

The gifted ticket is recorded through the normal entry flow, but with the recipient stored as the actual ticket owner.

Why Gifting Matters

This makes Hive Lotto more social and much easier to share.

Now users can:

• onboard a friend with a real entry instead of just a link
• reward community members with tickets
• run giveaways more naturally
• help new people experience the app before they buy for themselves

It turns lottery entries into something you can pass around, not just something you do solo.

It also shows you the custom JSON, so if you use bots or other automated means of working with hive apps like this and workflows, you can sidestep the UI.

The Creation Changes Matter Too

The other big improvement here is clarity.

One of the recent points of feedback was that creators could easily read a percentage in the create flow and assume it was a cut of the entire pool, when in reality that wasn’t what the system was doing.

That has now been cleaned up.

For HIVE custom lotteries

• the creator cut is presented more clearly
• the live preview makes the split easier to understand
• it is obvious that the cut comes from the house fee, not from the winner’s full pool

For Hive-Engine token lotteries

The token flow is now much cleaner:

• token lotteries are now effectively burn lotteries
• the creator already pays the 1 HIVE setup fee
• because of that, there is no extra creator fee taken from the token pool
• there is also no separate platform fee taken from the token pool
• the token pool is now about:
  • seed
  • entries
  • burn
  • winner payout

That makes the economics easier to explain and easier to trust.

Better Creation UX

The create flow has also been polished so it is easier to use in practice:

• clearer labels around fee logic
• cleaner token end-mode messaging
• better distinction between timer-based and cap-based token lotteries
• stronger live preview of what your setup actually means
• clearer warnings around the non-refundable 1 HIVE creation fee
• better wording around creator metrics and custom lottery details

So even if you never gift a ticket, the app should still feel easier to understand than before.

Important Details

• The gift recipient must be a real Hive account.
• The recipient owns the gifted ticket once it is accepted.
• The buyer is still the one funding the purchase.
• If a gifted entry can’t be accepted, the refund logic still follows the buyer-funded flow.
• If a lottery gets canceled, refunds still follow the same ownership and funding rules already used by Hive Lotto.

Still Transparent

None of this changes the fairness model:

• winner selection is still verifiable
• entry ownership is still explicit
• gifted entries are shown clearly in the app
• lottery payout logic is still transparent

So this update improves usability without making the system fuzzier.

Big Thanks

This update came directly from feedback.

Huge thanks to Hive account@panosdada for pushing the gifting idea forward.

Also thanks to Hive account@dlmmqb and others who raised questions around creator and token fee logic, because that feedback helped clean up the creation experience at the same time.

That kind of feedback is exactly what makes Hive Lotto sharper.

Final Word

Hive Lotto should be easy to play, easy to share, and easy to understand.

Now it is better at all three.