@themarkymark recently pointed out to me that the roadmap on hive.io was running out of road, so in this post I decided to make a list of some of the upcoming milestones for the work the BlockTrades team is planning now (sometimes in cooperation with other teams), then leave it to the coms team to decide how they want to organize it for the web site. There's still some things missing from this list, so I'll supplement it further later, this was just my first pass at a roadmap of our work
As you might expect, the nearer things are on the timeline, the more "concrete" they are, and things out in the future are more speculative.
2025 3Q
Updated HAF API stack
Hived Node software
- Lightweight hived only requires 4GB memory (next step to running on smart phones)
- Interactive API documentation web sites (swagger-based)
Social media API server
- Improved mute handling in Hivemind
- Keyword-based search added to Hivemind API
- Semantic text search and related post search with new HiveSense API
Wallet balance tracking and account history API servers
- Savings balances
- Pending coin conversions (@actifit)
- Open market orders (@actifit)
- Average transfer statistics
- Recurrent transfers
- Recent trades and trade history APIs for accounts
- Rich list (@actifit)
Block explorer API
- Speedup witness vote calculations
- Speedup permlink searching
- More types of data available
Hive libraries
- Wax: Typescript & Python library for Hive Dapp development
- Typescript WorkerBee: library for lightweight block processing (e.g. bot creation) (add-on to Wax)
Embeddable HTML Web page Components
- Binary Transaction viewer
- Display account
- Display witness
- Display post headers/footers and/or content
- Display post comments
- Display filter post lists (e.g. by tag)
Embeddable Wax UI components
- Embeddable API health checker component for Hive dapps
Web Dapps
- Transaction Inspector (layer 1 release)
- Updated Block Explorer UI
Key management and security apps
- Beekeeper: lightweight process for managing private keys (Wax bindings available)
- Metamask wallet snap for Hive accounts
2025 4Q
Updated HAF (base layer for designing API servers)
- Lightweight version of HAF (pruned tables)
- Support for lightweight accounts (including social media-based login)
- Support for 2nd layer transactions
- Apps respond immediately to new blocks
Hive Libraries
- Begin updating Wax to optimize server-side API caches
- Python WorkerBee: library for lightweight block processing (e.g. bot creation)
Web Dapps
- Denser: modern replacement for Condenser social media web app
Key management and security apps
- Clive: new command-line and Terminal UI wallet
Coinbase Mesh API support for Hive
2026 Q1
Prototyping for smart contracts designing
Updates to API stack
- Prototype REST-based API for hivemind (social media API)
- New community functionality for hivemind (@howo)
Web Dapps
- Customizable Hive web sites (@peakd)
- Updates to Denser (TBD)
- Transaction Inspector (layer 2 release)