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

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 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, null, reward.app, etc 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 attracted to them.

@oflyhigh is on the top.

There are around 8.5k accounts that have received rewards in February 2025. The median payout is 9 HIVE, while the average is around 100 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 11.3k 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 16 accounts received funding in February 2025.

The @valueplan account is on the top here followed by @vsc.network, @keychain, @peakd, @ecency etc. A total of 280k HBD paid from DHF in February 2025.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, with 370k 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 26k HBD, followed by the @sps.dao and @yunnie. A total of 87k HBD was paid as interest rewards in February 2025.

Top Earners Cumulative

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

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 simplificati on.

I have separated the different earnings for the top accounts accordingly. The valueplan account is at the top for February 2025 as a DHF funds receiver, followed by @lazy-panda as HBD interest receiver.

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	Account	Total	Author	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	208,577	0	208,577
2	null	36,954	0	36,954
3	reward.app	6,853	0	6,853
4	poshtoken	3,701	2,363	1,338
5	spk.beneficiary	3,523	0	3,523
6	distriator.bene	3,505	0	3,505
7	commentrewarder	3,246	16	3,230
8	oflyhigh	3,104	3,103	1
9	curamax	2,550	2,545	6
10	tarazkp	2,494	2,487	7
11	nomnomnomnom	2,344	0	2,344
12	libertycrypto27	2,109	2,069	40
13	cryptoandcoffee	2,103	2,103	0
14	papilloncharity	1,840	1,786	55
15	geekgirl	1,764	1,762	2
16	mango-juice	1,658	1,658	1
17	honeydue	1,654	1,522	132
18	edicted	1,616	1,613	3
19	leofinance	1,594	214	1,380
20	trumpman	1,544	1,544	0
21	tattoodjay	1,519	1,491	28
22	taskmaster4450le	1,513	729	784
23	kkarenmp	1,458	1,457	2
24	daveks	1,442	1,419	22
25	lauramica	1,414	1,301	113
26	azircon	1,391	1,378	13
27	bravetofu	1,343	1,331	12
28	bozz	1,338	1,330	8
29	steemychicken1	1,313	1,313	0
30	liketu	1,296	0	1,296
31	worldmappin	1,256	1,256	0
32	x-rain	1,255	1,244	10
33	sagarkothari88	1,206	802	404
34	dalz	1,203	1,186	17
35	galenkp	1,195	1,194	1
36	silversaver888	1,192	1,191	1
37	bitcoinflood	1,170	1,170	0
38	macchiata	1,127	819	308
39	gungunkrishu	1,124	1,124	0
40	sps.dao	1,119	0	1,119
41	missbitcoin-sv	1,102	1,102	0
42	claudio83	1,098	1,089	9
43	hive-140169	1,090	0	1,090
44	captaindingus	1,052	1,031	21
45	dbooster	1,026	1,026	0
46	acidyo	1,004	997	7
47	wiseagent	1,000	1,000	0
48	moeenali	1,000	1,000	0
49	josediccus	995	991	4
50	revisesociology	983	983	0
51	riverflows	979	978	2
52	gooddream	974	881	92
53	michupa	971	971	0
54	mipiano	959	949	10
55	detlev	958	957	1
56	underlock	946	946	0
57	jlinaresp	935	918	16
58	lordbutterfly	924	908	16
59	vikisecrets	913	913	0
60	beelzael	905	903	2
61	rivalhw	900	900	0
62	dwayne16	899	899	0
63	beaker007	896	892	4
64	deanliu	891	882	9
65	noemilunastorta	881	867	14
66	nurfay	877	867	11
67	patsitivity	874	869	5
68	coldbeetrootsoup	874	764	109
69	whoisjohn	866	866	0
70	bxt	865	865	0
71	anggreklestari	862	744	118
72	grindle	851	844	8
73	khaleelkazi	850	848	2
74	bhattg	844	825	19
75	tengolotodo	843	815	28
76	zing.fund	843	0	843
77	giuatt07	842	842	0
78	sports.guy55	841	840	0
79	sugarelys	838	836	2
80	danielcarrerag	838	824	14
81	manujune	835	832	3
82	obaro	834	825	9
83	juliakponsford	830	512	318
84	incublus	802	802	0
85	hive-105017	797	0	797
86	onyfest	792	783	9
87	nainaztengra	786	786	0
88	livinguktaiwan	780	767	13
89	cetb2008	777	776	0
90	monochromes	776	758	19
91	davidke20	776	756	19
92	akipponn	772	768	4
93	mrspointm	770	770	0
94	yolimarag	769	664	104
95	rentmoney	760	760	0
96	jhymi	755	638	117
97	sanjeevm	753	749	5
98	celeste413	750	731	19
99	jthomasewsky	747	744	2
100	acesontop	742	732	10