Top Hive Earners in 2025 | A Yearly Report | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest

Happy new year Hivers! 2025 is behind us and it’s time to take a look at the top earners for the year. Unlike the other reports that are monthly this one will be a yearly one summarizing the whole year.
Hive has multiple methods to distribute inflation that helps its token distribution and stay decentralized. With the addition of the HBD savings interest there is now a total of six ways the inflation on Hive is distributed: authors, curators, staking, witness, DHF and HBD interest.

Here we will be looking at the overall inflation distribution for HIVE, looking at the following

• Authors rewards
• Curators rewards
• Witnesses rewards
• DHF/DAO rewards
• HBD interest
• Cumulative rewards

Top Authors

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive authors that earned the most in the year.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on VESTS to HIVE, for simplification. Also some of the top beneficiaries like the hbdstabilizator, reward.app, null and 3Speak are excluded.

I have made a breakdown in the author and beneficiary rewards.
Author rewards are one of the most know in the blockchain as a lot of users are attract for them.

Hive account@oflyhigh is the top earning Hive author for 2025 with close to 50k HIVE equivalent earned in 2025. Hive account@cryptoandcoffee is on the second spot, followed by Hive account@tarazkp.

There are around 16k accounts that have received at least one HIVE as reward in 2025. The median payout is 32 HIVE, while the average is 630.

Top Curators

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive curators that earned the most in the year.

Hive account@appreciator is on the top here with 1M HIVE, followed by Hive account@alpha with 870k and then Hive account@blocktrades with close to 780k.

The accounts above are the biggest curators on the Hive blockchain. Hope they will do a great job in curating and making this place grow.

Top Witnesses

The top witnesses’ earnings charts look like this.

I have included more than 20 accounts in this chart to show the drop in earnings after the 20th spot.

The top 20 are earning the same amount of HIVE (HP), around 150k HP per year.

There seems to be a healthy competition among witness now, especially around the 20th spot.

The DHF/DAO Payouts

Accounts that received funding from the DHF/DAO in the period.

DHF workers are paid in HBD, and the numbers above are in HBD.

A total of 24 accounts received funding in 2025.

The Hive account@valueplan account is on the top here with 1M HBD received in 2025, followed by Hive account@vsc.network with 357k and Hive account@keychain with 216k HBD. A few more accounts with more than 100k HBD earned in 2025 from the DHF. A total of 2.5M HBD was paid out to DHF workers in 2025.

Note on the special Hive account@hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, but since technically it’s not keeping those funds, it is excluded from the list.

Top HBD Interest Earners

Here is the chart.

The Hive account@lazy-panda is on the top here with 350k HBD interest earned in 2025, followed by Hive account@roundbeargames with 25k HBD and Hive account@yunnie.

Top Earners Cumulative

From the data above we can compile the payout for a single ranking on overall top earners on the Hive blockchain in 2025.

Here is the chart.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on HBD to HIVE implemented, and VESTS to HIVE, for simplification.

I have separated the different earnings for the top accounts accordingly.

The Hive account@valueplan account is on the top for 2025 with 5M HIVE equivalent earned, followed by Hive account@lazy-panda and Hive account@vsc.network.

Most of the accounts in the top earners for 2025 are DHF workers and curation accounts, with some HBD interest accounts as well.

Realized Inflation Share

The realized inflation share pie looks like this:

As we can see auhors rewards and DHF are almost the same in 2025, and curation rewards are also in the same range.

Just a note that this pie is different than the programed inflation that is 65% authors and curators, 15% staking rewards, 10% witnesses and 10% DHF, becouse the realised funds from the DHF are not as the inflation rate and there is the HBD interest on the top.

All the best
Hive account@dalz

I’m a witness. Please consider supporting me https://peakd.com/me/witnesses

P.S. Most of the Hivers want to check the author’s rewards so here is a longer table with the top 100.

Rank	Author	Total	Author rewards	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	2,904,947	0	2,904,947
2	null	759,997	0	759,997
3	reward.app	173,136	1	173,135
4	nomnomnomnom	162,663	0	162,663
5	poshtoken	111,576	87,498	24,078
6	commentrewarder	109,884	13,603	96,281
7	distriator.bene	84,954	0	84,954
8	spk.beneficiary	42,591	0	42,591
9	oflyhigh	49,019	48,996	23
10	cryptoandcoffee	40,150	40,148	2
11	tarazkp	38,853	38,782	71
12	libertycrypto27	32,381	31,914	468
13	papilloncharity	27,076	26,397	679
14	worldmappin	26,902	26,882	20
15	bozz	26,107	25,924	183
16	curamax	24,324	24,304	20
17	tattoodjay	24,108	23,802	306
18	galenkp	23,432	23,392	40
19	steemychicken1	23,127	23,126	1
20	mango-juice	23,026	23,023	3
21	erikah	22,049	21,203	846
22	kkarenmp	21,328	21,313	15
23	acidyo	21,073	20,389	684
24	hanshotfirst	20,757	20,745	12
25	leofinance	19,920	2,192	17,728
26	gungunkrishu	19,596	19,551	45
27	taskmaster4450le	19,163	7,258	11,905
28	wiseagent	19,129	19,125	4
29	daveks	18,932	18,754	179
30	solominer	18,780	18,543	237
31	claudio83	18,767	18,696	71
32	liketu	18,603	1	18,602
33	x-rain	18,083	17,831	252
34	revisesociology	17,591	17,584	7
35	danielcarrerag	17,411	17,299	112
36	detlev	17,372	17,289	83
37	honeydue	17,319	16,132	1,187
38	aswita	17,316	17,291	25
39	gooddream	16,898	16,001	897
40	giuatt07	16,710	16,678	31
41	jlinaresp	16,303	16,043	260
42	avdesing	16,168	15,736	432
43	bhattg	16,050	15,559	491
44	meno	15,973	15,731	242
45	incublus	15,554	15,538	17
46	lauramica	15,401	13,944	1,457
47	macchiata	15,219	11,582	3,637
48	dalz	14,980	14,812	167
49	dbooster	14,878	14,876	2
50	mipiano	14,823	14,650	173
51	trumpman	14,807	14,802	4
52	noemilunastorta	14,466	14,447	19
53	riverflows	14,383	14,346	37
54	moeenali	14,230	14,228	3
55	mrspointm	14,218	14,218	0
56	vikisecrets	14,020	14,010	11
57	sports.guy55	14,000	13,998	1
58	tengolotodo	13,699	13,479	220
59	underlock	13,655	13,640	16
60	edicted	13,575	13,519	56
61	jychbetter	13,363	13,363	0
62	michupa	13,309	13,275	34
63	silversaver888	13,192	13,151	41
64	rivalhw	13,111	13,111	0
65	fermionico	13,103	12,903	200
66	hive-105017	12,954	0	12,954
67	irenenavarroart	12,946	12,888	58
68	sagarkothari88	12,927	8,539	4,388
69	yonilkar	12,894	4,427	8,467
70	sanjeevm	12,792	12,736	57
71	josediccus	12,724	12,689	35
72	anggreklestari	12,617	11,529	1,088
73	jcrodriguez	12,600	11,639	961
74	zing.fund	12,586	0	12,586
75	azircon	12,511	12,422	88
76	bxt	12,387	12,387	0
77	onyfest	12,179	12,102	76
78	riyat	12,157	12,156	0
79	finpulse	12,119	12,119	0
80	nainaztengra	12,100	12,099	1
81	yolimarag	12,085	10,829	1,256
82	nurfay	12,083	12,064	19
83	steemflow	11,998	11,770	228
84	monochromes	11,996	11,780	216
85	torem-di-torem	11,970	11,970	0
86	seattlea	11,944	11,914	30
87	atyh	11,855	11,855	0
88	louis88	11,797	11,571	226
89	mrdani12	11,758	11,755	4
90	celeste413	11,743	11,384	359
91	juliakponsford	11,720	7,054	4,666
92	josehany	11,712	11,711	1
93	miingjazz	11,705	11,669	36
94	jesuslnrs	11,677	10,609	1,068
95	thebighigg	11,513	11,486	27
96	sps.dao	11,507	367	11,140
97	hive-140169	11,499	0	11,499
98	coldbeetrootsoup	11,391	11,036	355
99	tanzil2024	11,277	11,275	2
100	ramisey	11,243	10,619	624