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 6.5k accounts that have received rewards in July 2025. The median payout is 35 HIVE, while the average is around 140 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 12k 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 13 accounts received funding in July 2025.

The @vsc.network account is at the top here, followed by @keychain, @ecency etc. A total of 116k HBD was paid in June 2025, and it is relatively lower than the previous month when it was 250k, mostly due to the lack of the @valueplan account, that usually has big payments.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, with 270k 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 28k HBD, followed by @investgg . A total of 108k HBD was paid as interest rewards in July 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 simplification.

I have separated the different earnings for the top accounts accordingly.
The DHF funded @valueplan account is on the top with another DHF funded project the @vsc.network on the second spot, 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’s rewards so here is a longer table with the top 100.

Rank	Account	Total	Auhtor	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	214,810	0	214,810
2	null	70,672	0	70,672
3	nomnomnomnom	20,067	0	20,067
4	reward.app	18,142	0	18,142
5	distriator.bene	11,372	0	11,372
6	poshtoken	10,849	8,959	1,890
7	commentrewarder	8,864	174	8,690
8	oflyhigh	4,003	4,002	1
9	cryptoandcoffee	3,279	3,279	0
10	spk.beneficiary	3,039	0	3,039
11	libertycrypto27	2,767	2,728	39
12	tarazkp	2,752	2,749	3
13	solominer	2,592	2,583	9
14	erikah	2,514	2,499	14
15	hanshotfirst	2,489	2,487	1
16	galenkp	2,383	2,381	3
17	worldmappin	2,197	2,196	1
18	threespeakselfie	2,178	1	2,176
19	tattoodjay	2,177	2,157	21
20	bozz	2,144	2,136	8
21	papilloncharity	2,063	2,014	49
22	taskmaster4450le	1,943	675	1,267
23	steemychicken1	1,786	1,786	0
24	daveks	1,708	1,695	13
25	gungunkrishu	1,651	1,645	6
26	kkarenmp	1,622	1,621	1
27	liketu	1,622	0	1,621
28	gooddream	1,572	1,490	82
29	mipiano	1,567	1,542	25
30	curamax	1,550	1,550	0
31	wiseagent	1,541	1,541	0
32	danielcarrerag	1,490	1,483	7
33	acidyo	1,469	1,462	6
34	underlock	1,453	1,449	4
35	x-rain	1,453	1,440	13
36	avdesing	1,451	1,426	25
37	revisesociology	1,435	1,434	0
38	ecoinstant	1,426	1,180	247
39	claudio83	1,420	1,417	2
40	tengolotodo	1,417	1,405	13
41	mango-juice	1,398	1,398	0
42	josediccus	1,397	1,396	1
43	dalz	1,377	1,366	11
44	giuatt07	1,362	1,359	3
45	leofinance	1,338	269	1,069
46	riyat	1,293	1,293	0
47	bhattg	1,288	1,228	60
48	riverflows	1,275	1,274	2
49	sanjeevm	1,269	1,258	11
50	incublus	1,245	1,244	1
51	celeste413	1,214	1,170	44
52	vinzie1	1,213	1,204	10
53	mrspointm	1,196	1,196	0
54	aswita	1,179	1,179	0
55	silversaver888	1,161	1,160	1
56	macchiata	1,155	869	286
57	moeenali	1,145	1,145	0
58	hive-105017	1,133	0	1,133
59	jychbetter	1,126	1,126	0
60	lizelle	1,125	1,109	16
61	stayoutoftherz	1,117	1,105	13
62	dbooster	1,114	1,114	0
63	jcrodriguez	1,114	1,085	29
64	vikisecrets	1,107	1,105	2
65	fermionico	1,106	1,106	0
66	detlev	1,090	1,089	1
67	zhangyan-123	1,088	1,088	0
68	bemier	1,078	914	164
69	neruel	1,060	1,060	0
70	jlinaresp	1,050	1,026	24
71	verbal-d	1,048	1,048	0
72	seattlea	1,046	1,046	1
73	mattsanthonyit	1,043	1,043	1
74	sports.guy55	1,028	1,028	0
75	atyh	1,017	1,017	0
76	irenenavarroart	1,016	989	27
77	coldbeetrootsoup	1,016	1,016	1
78	ramisey	1,012	967	45
79	nainaztengra	1,008	1,008	0
80	juliakponsford	1,002	586	416
81	beaker007	1,001	996	5
82	rivalhw	1,001	1,001	0
83	finpulse	999	999	0
84	noemilunastorta	990	990	0
85	mrdani12	989	987	2
86	solumviz	989	504	484
87	bxt	984	984	0
88	michupa	981	981	0
89	nnurdiani	979	979	0
90	azircon	975	970	5
91	shiftrox	974	974	0
92	bala41288	970	970	0
93	patif2025	961	959	2
94	logen9f	960	960	0
95	lauramica	949	840	109
96	holoz0r	940	940	1
97	yonilkar	939	71	868
98	susanli3769	938	938	0
99	torem-di-torem	937	937	0
100	dexpartacus	932	926	6
101	thecrazygm	932	927	4