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 March 2025. The median payout is 11 HIVE, while the average is around 110 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 15 accounts received funding in March 2025.

The @valueplan account is on the top here followed by @vsc.network, @keychain etc. A total of 150k HBD paid from DHF in March 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 @investegg and @yunnie. A total of 96k HBD was paid as interest rewards in March 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 valueplan account is at the top for March 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	222,718	0	222,718
2	null	46,680	0	46,680
3	reward.app	10,467	0	10,467
4	distriator.bene	6,511	0	6,511
5	nomnomnomnom	5,430	0	5,430
6	commentrewarder	4,196	36	4,161
7	poshtoken	3,981	2,443	1,537
8	spk.beneficiary	3,202	0	3,202
9	oflyhigh	3,729	3,728	2
10	tarazkp	2,840	2,829	12
11	cryptoandcoffee	2,519	2,519	0
12	daveks	2,336	2,316	20
13	curamax	2,277	2,276	1
14	papilloncharity	2,235	2,174	61
15	honeydue	2,220	2,026	194
16	mango-juice	2,106	2,106	0
17	tattoodjay	2,102	2,069	33
18	taskmaster4450le	2,031	793	1,238
19	libertycrypto27	1,960	1,903	57
20	trumpman	1,928	1,927	1
21	solominer	1,880	1,846	34
22	kkarenmp	1,677	1,677	0
23	acidyo	1,674	1,664	10
24	steemychicken1	1,670	1,670	0
25	bozz	1,625	1,611	15
26	worldmappin	1,553	1,553	0
27	sps.dao	1,544	53	1,491
28	liketu	1,519	0	1,519
29	leofinance	1,501	203	1,298
30	galenkp	1,401	1,398	3
31	hive-140169	1,363	0	1,363
32	dalz	1,343	1,318	25
33	anggreklestari	1,340	1,218	122
34	edicted	1,307	1,302	5
35	mipiano	1,294	1,281	13
36	detlev	1,275	1,273	2
37	onyfest	1,262	1,255	7
38	claudio83	1,213	1,207	6
39	revisesociology	1,209	1,208	1
40	wiseagent	1,186	1,186	1
41	x-rain	1,184	1,169	15
42	slobberchops	1,151	1,143	8
43	josediccus	1,148	1,144	5
44	moeenali	1,135	1,135	0
45	danielcarrerag	1,128	1,126	2
46	giuatt07	1,123	1,123	0
47	noemilunastorta	1,107	1,107	0
48	riverflows	1,101	1,096	5
49	akipponn	1,085	1,081	4
50	aswita	1,083	1,082	1
51	macchiata	1,081	760	321
52	rivalhw	1,076	1,076	0
53	gungunkrishu	1,050	1,050	0
54	tengolotodo	1,049	1,019	30
55	michupa	1,036	1,031	5
56	incublus	1,031	1,031	0
57	juliakponsford	1,029	442	587
58	dbooster	1,021	1,021	0
59	vikisecrets	1,020	1,020	0
60	lauramica	1,019	897	122
61	yolimarag	1,017	891	126
62	ewkaw	1,010	924	86
63	pravesh0	1,009	639	369
64	jlinaresp	988	958	30
65	zekepickleman	986	986	0
66	beaker007	968	960	8
67	azircon	960	951	9
68	mrspointm	959	959	0
69	altheana	958	957	1
70	bhattg	949	933	16
71	bxt	944	944	0
72	coldbeetrootsoup	940	789	152
73	silviabeneforti	935	935	0
74	verbal-d	935	934	1
75	jychbetter	932	932	0
76	monochromes	922	901	22
77	hive-105017	920	0	920
78	celeste413	915	897	18
79	abh12345	907	903	4
80	dwayne16	903	903	0
81	mattsanthonyit	887	887	0
82	nainaztengra	887	887	0
83	avdesing	884	862	21
84	irenenavarroart	877	877	0
85	evelynchacin	873	873	0
86	underlock	864	864	0
87	silversaver888	862	845	17
88	ecoinstant	857	770	87
89	costanza	850	848	2
90	nurfay	848	846	1
91	josehany	846	846	0
92	yonilkar	840	533	307
93	beelzael	839	837	2
94	jesuslnrs	832	752	81
95	acesontop	824	814	11
96	zing.fund	824	0	824
97	gooddream	819	775	44
98	davidke20	818	787	32
99	kristal24	815	815	0
100	sanjeevm	814	811	4