Top Hive Earners by Category | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest | March 2024

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.

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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 month.

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 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.

@oflyhigh is on the top followed by @lordbutterfy and @taskmaster4450le.

There are around 8.4k accounts that have received rewards in March 2024. The median payout is 13 HIVE, while the average is around 85 HIVE.

Top Curators

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

@appreciator is on the top here, followed by @alpha and @blocktrades.

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 around the same amount of HIVE (HP), around 10k per month.

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 17 accounts received funding in March 2024.

The @valueplan account is on the top here followed by @keychain, @peak.open, @leofinance, @fund.dbuzz etc.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, with almost 372k HBD received in the month, but since technically it’s not keeping those funds, it is excluded from the list.

Top HBD Interest Earners

Here is the chart.

The @lazy-panda is on the top here with 27k HBD, followed by @newsflash and @alpha.

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 February 2024.

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 @valueplan account is on the top, followed by @appreaciator, @blocktrades, @lazy-panda, @alpha etc.
Mostly DHF and curation accounts on the top, but some HBD interest accounts as well.

All the best
@dalz

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

Rank	Author	Total	Author rewards	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	222,618	0	222,618
2	null	47,325	0	47,325
3	reward.app	7,556	0	7,556
4	spk.beneficiary	6,023	0	6,023
5	oflyhigh	3,486	3,486	0
6	lordbutterfly	2,650	2,650	0
7	taskmaster4450le	2,559	952	1,606
8	cryptoandcoffee	2,351	2,351	0
9	erikah	2,302	2,223	79
10	kkarenmp	2,105	2,105	0
11	tarazkp	1,909	1,909	0
12	edicted	1,904	1,904	0
13	castleberry	1,773	335	1,438
14	trumpman	1,753	1,752	1
15	leofinance	1,622	198	1,424
16	mcsamm	1,529	1,529	0
17	alokkumar121	1,527	1,503	24
18	liketu	1,455	2	1,453
19	zing.fund	1,437	0	1,437
20	steemychicken1	1,427	1,427	0
21	mango-juice	1,414	1,414	0
22	tattoodjay	1,364	1,363	1
23	khaleelkazi	1,346	1,346	0
24	mipiano	1,283	1,159	124
25	acesontop	1,221	1,221	0
26	libertycrypto27	1,215	1,215	0
27	silversaver888	1,210	1,210	0
28	lauramica	1,199	1,020	179
29	fotostef	1,171	1,167	4
30	collinz	1,152	1,152	0
31	alexa.art	1,149	1,149	0
32	geekgirl	1,147	1,147	0
33	galenkp	1,140	1,140	0
34	gooddream	1,133	1,095	38
35	riverflows	1,099	1,099	0
36	daveks	1,098	1,098	0
37	bozz	1,073	1,073	0
38	papilloncharity	1,072	1,050	22
39	danielcarrerag	1,072	1,052	19
40	detlev	1,063	1,063	0
41	ewkaw	1,057	990	67
42	revisesociology	1,052	1,052	0
43	acidyo	1,014	778	236
44	bhattg	1,008	930	78
45	slobberchops	1,007	1,007	0
46	anggreklestari	1,000	710	289
47	trucklife-family	983	983	0
48	iamlosi	980	979	1
49	baibuaza	977	977	0
50	omarcitorojas	975	975	0
51	priyanarc	960	572	388
52	fondew	956	955	1
53	mrspointm	951	951	0
54	bxt	951	951	0
55	hetty-rowan	950	850	100
56	dalz	941	936	6
57	macchiata	929	522	408
58	taskmaster4450	929	929	0
59	solumviz	926	926	0
60	incublus	920	858	63
61	rivalhw	916	916	0
62	bdvoter.cur	915	915	0
63	steemflow	915	908	7
64	dbooster	889	873	16
65	yanes94	875	875	0
66	zullyscott	873	872	1
67	jasperdick	869	869	0
68	irenenavarroart	858	858	0
69	annepink	854	854	0
70	jychbetter	837	837	0
71	zekepickleman	834	834	0
72	yolimarag	833	747	86
73	plantfuljourney	830	830	0
74	pinmapple	827	827	0
75	flemingfarm	820	820	0
76	lucianav	816	816	0
77	elizabeths14	812	594	218
78	edwarlyn11	811	811	0
79	bala41288	810	810	0
80	sps.dao	805	0	805
81	josehany	801	801	0
82	julsdraws	800	800	0
83	rtonline	800	800	0
84	obaro	799	424	375
85	jlinaresp	799	796	3
86	missdeli	789	768	22
87	livinguktaiwan	787	771	17
88	grindle	786	784	3
89	vikisecrets	780	780	0
90	actifit.pay	779	0	779
91	justinparke	767	577	190
92	hallmann	766	765	1
93	vessymink	765	765	0
94	atyh	761	761	0
95	bitcoinflood	756	756	0
96	bdmillergallery	756	756	0
97	junseo	4,075	455	0
98	lorentm	752	752	0
99	ciskodisco.opus	751	751	0
100	belug	745	745	0