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"content": "\n\n*Originally published on [Hive](https://peakd.com/@hivetoday/82). Follow us there for the full community experience.*\n\n---\n\n# Sunlit Handshakes, Late-Night Merges—and Barcelona on the Calendar\n\nHive met in person again this week. Builders and fans shared photos and stories from **Hive Open Days** in **Alicante**. The same crowd is already bookmarking **HiveFest XI** in **Barcelona** this September—picking up the thread from [last issue’s HiveFest save-the-date](https://peakd.com/@hivetoday/81).\n\nUnder the hood, core devs kept pushing **balance-class** work on the main node. The **3Speak** desktop team shipped more **OpenPods** upgrades. Wallets, games, and fresh explorers rounded out the week.\n\nThis is HiveToday—a weekly recap of the Hive blockchain ecosystem.\n\n**New here?** Hive runs on delegated proof-of-stake: token holders elect witnesses who produce blocks. You can blog, comment, and play games without paying gas on every click. The chain has been live since March 2020.\n\n---\n\n\n**Editor's Take**\n\nThree threads stood out.\n\n**First**, the **Alicante** meetup was the social headline. Recaps, bilingual day-by-day posts, and a long **HOD** summary filled the reward leaderboard. That energy matters for a chain that still wins fans face-to-face.\n\n**Second**, **Barcelona** is now the north star on the calendar. [@hivefest](https://peakd.com/@hivefest/save-the-date-hivefest-xi-barcelona-the-heart-of-catalonia-17-20-sept-2026) locked **17–20 September 2026**. If you started planning after issue #81, this week’s community posts are your reminder to watch **hivefe.st** for hotels and tickets.\n\n**Third**, builders did not slow down. **OpenPods** and **Hangouts** picked up another round of fixes on the video side. **Ecency** answered DHF questions. **Keychain** teased **USDC** for new accounts. The week felt like travel stories up top and shipping code underneath.\n\n---\n\n\n**The Story of the Week: Hive Open Days in Alicante, With Barcelona on Deck**\n\nThe reward data tells the story. [@schmidi](https://peakd.com/@schmidi/this-were-the-hive-open-days-in-alicante-3004-03052026-gereng) posted a bilingual recap of **Hive Open Days Alicante** (30 April–3 May) and topped the week at **286 HP**, with more than **1,000 votes** and **64 comments**. [@livinguktaiwan](https://peakd.com/@livinguktaiwan/hod-alicante-2026-summary) added a conference-style **HOD Alicante 2026** summary—another long thread with **60 comments**.\n\n[@palomap3](https://peakd.com/@palomap3/hive-open-days-dia-3-hive-open-days-day-3) documented [**Day 3**](https://peakd.com/@palomap3/hive-open-days-dia-3-hive-open-days-day-3) and [**Day 4**](https://peakd.com/@palomap3/hive-open-days-dia-4-hive-open-days-day-4) in Spanish and English. **Day 3** alone drew roughly **1,400 votes**; **Day 4** kept the momentum with nearly **1,000 votes**. That is the kind of cross-language hospitality that keeps regional hubs alive.\n\n[@demotruk](https://peakd.com/@demotruk/the-rise-abuse-and-quiet-migration-of-introduceyourself) and [@demotruk](https://peakd.com/@demotruk/why-spanish-speakers-stay-on-hive) framed the bigger picture: how **#introduceyourself** changed over the years, and why Spanish-speaking creators still choose Hive. Read together with the Alicante posts, the week reads as “meet in person, then explain why the network is worth staying on.”\n\nIn parallel, [@hivefest](https://peakd.com/@hivefest/save-the-date-hivefest-xi-barcelona-the-heart-of-catalonia-17-20-sept-2026) reinforced **HiveFest XI** in **Barcelona**—the same city thread we highlighted in issue #81, now with fresh community chatter (**74 comments** on the save-the-date post). Alicante was the handshake; Barcelona is the appointment on the calendar.\n\n---\n\n\n**Development Pulse**\n\nCore node work moved toward cleaner **money types** on chain. Engineers added **balance-class** definitions and tests, and pointed more tooling at the **database API** instead of older wallet-bridge paths in tests. That is groundwork for safer accounting as Hive apps multiply.\n\nOn **hive.blog**, the open **denser** test suite grew again—full paths for **post creation**, **validation edge cases**, and **payout combinations**. The goal is fewer surprises when authors edit posts or claim rewards.\n\nInfrastructure tools tracked **Hive 1.28.6** dependencies. The **HAF block explorer** gained a new **operation-type statistics** endpoint—useful for dashboards that slice chain activity by operation kind.\n\n**Video and OpenPods:** The **3Speak** / **Mantequilla-Soft** repos merged a busy week—**OpenPods** guest mode, deep links, share buttons, **Pro** gating for audio, and fixes for join races on **3Speak TV**. **Snapie Audio** doubled its upload ceiling to **100 MB**. [@thecrazygm](https://peakd.com/@thecrazygm/hardening-the-gopher-hole-a-security-audit-of-go4hive) published a security audit of **Go4Hive** on [C/HiveDevs](https://peakd.com/hive-139531/trending).\n\n**Community-built tools:** [@mateodm03](https://peakd.com/@mateodm03/hive-engine-blocks-launch-a-block-explorer-designed-to-be-easy-to-understand) launched **Hive Engine Blocks**, a reader-friendly **Hive Engine** explorer. [@cadawg](https://peakd.com/@cadawg/hive-arena-a-top-down-shooter-battle-royale-powered-by-hive-blockchain-data) introduced **HIVEMIND**, a battle-royale concept that uses Hive posts as in-game weapons. [@iamkaye](https://peakd.com/@iamkaye/why-google-doesnt-hate-hive-it-just-cant-find-us) argued Hive’s discovery problem is SEO and indexing—not a search-engine grudge. [@hivepulse.app](https://peakd.com/@hivepulse.app/hivepulseapp-daily-development-pulse-with-prelaunch-activities-2zu) is logging prelaunch work on **HivePulse.app**. [@sagarkothari88](https://peakd.com/@sagarkothari88/f61ec754) continues daily shipping notes across **HiveReactKit**, **hSnaps**, and related apps—see the latest [C/HiveDevs](https://peakd.com/hive-139531/trending) entry for the current build.\n\n---\n\n\n**Project Spotlights**\n\n**Ecency** — [@ecency](https://peakd.com/@ecency/ecency-scaling-hive-access-infrastructure) outlined how it scales **Hive** access and infrastructure, then followed with a [proposal Q&A](https://peakd.com/@ecency/ecency-proposal-follow-up-q) on roadmap and DHF plans.\n\n**Splinterlands** — [@splinterlands](https://peakd.com/@splinterlands/escalation-conflicts-prepare-for-battle) teased **Escalation Conflicts: Prepare For Battle**, the game’s main official post this week.\n\n**Magi Network** — [@magi.network](https://peakd.com/@magi.network/magi-just-shipped-a-token-factory) shipped a **token factory** and opened a [writing contest](https://peakd.com/@magi.network/magi-writing-contest-dollar500-usd-in-btc-and-90k-hp-in-delegations-up-for-grabs) with **BTC** and delegation prizes. [@tibfox](https://peakd.com/@tibfox/1c035f1c) and [@asgarth](https://peakd.com/@asgarth/peakd-updates-magi-swaps-decent-memes-and-nicer-code-blocks) covered **Magi** swaps on **PeakD**.\n\n**Hive Keychain** — [@keychain](https://peakd.com/@keychain/0b170671) previewed creating a **Hive** account with **USDC**—onboarding without leaving familiar stablecoins.\n\n**Actifit** — [@actifit](https://peakd.com/@actifit/actifit-web-v1100-security-shield-smarter-rewards-landing-page--signup-glow-up) released **Actifit Web v1.10.0** with security hardening, smarter rewards, and a refreshed signup flow—the launch post trended on [C/HiveDevs](https://peakd.com/hive-139531/trending) this week.\n\n**3Speak / OpenPods** — No new root post on [@threespeak](https://peakd.com/@threespeak) this week; shipping showed up in **OpenPods** / **Hangouts** merges and [@thecrazygm](https://peakd.com/@thecrazygm/hardening-the-gopher-hole-a-security-audit-of-go4hive)’s **Go4Hive** audit.\n\n**Worldmappin** — Daily [**Travel Digest**](https://peakd.com/@worldmappin/travel-digest-2918) series continued (#2914–#2918), keeping the travel community on a steady cadence.\n\n**Hive NFTs** — [@mateodm03](https://peakd.com/@mateodm03/hive-nfts-new-feature-nfts-auctions-and-other-features) added **NFT auctions** and related marketplace features.\n\n---\n\n\n**Network Stats**\n\n| Metric | This week |\n| --- | --- |\n| HIVE price (CoinGecko) | ~$0.060 |\n| HIVE market cap | ~$32.4M |\n| HBD market cap (trading) | ~$31.0M |\n| CoinGecko rank (HIVE) | #666 |\n| 24h HIVE change | −0.96% |\n| HBD print rate (chain) | **0** |\n| HIVE powered up (7d) | ~164,746 HIVE |\n| HIVE powered down (7d) | ~880,008 HIVE |\n| Net staking flow (7d) | ~−715k HIVE (more powered down than up) |\n\n**HBD, short:** The chain still shows **no new HBD** paid in author rewards (`print rate` **0**). Trading data puts **HBD** near **$0.93** with a market cap around **$31M**—that is what exchanges price, not the full face-value supply sitting in wallets and the **hive.fund** vault. For haircut and debt-ratio detail, see [issue #75](https://peakd.com/@hivetoday/75) and the live dashboard—not a back-of-the-napkin **HIVE-supply** fraction.\n\n**Powering up:** Large **power-downs** dominated the seven-day tally even as meetup hosts like [@livinguktaiwan](https://peakd.com/@livinguktaiwan/hod-alicante-2026-summary) added stake. Net flow is a snapshot, not a verdict on sentiment.\n\n---\n\n\n**Governance**\n\nTwenty-one top witnesses mostly run **v1.28.3**. **@deathwing** remains on **v1.28.0**—worth an upgrade when convenient, not an emergency.\n\nFunded **DHF** proposals above return **#0** this snapshot:\n\n| Proposal | Focus |\n| --- | --- |\n| **#377** | **HBD Stabilizer – Renewal R2-2026** (~12,000 HBD/day) |\n| **#368** | Ecosystem operations / retro |\n| **#350** | Open-source project bundle |\n| **#360** | Hive dev proposal #2 |\n| **#336** | Ecency development & maintenance |\n| **#293** | Hivewatchers & Spaminator |\n\n[@shortsegments](https://peakd.com/@shortsegments/why-im-voting-to-renew-the-hbd-stabilizer-and-why-you-should-too-dzk) published a cluster of plain-language posts on the **stabilizer**, remittances, and **HBD** mechanics—useful if you vote on **#377**.\n\n***Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups***\n\n- Largest power routes (7d) include **@themonetaryfew**, **@tamiil**, **@coininstant**, **@risingstargame**, **@livinguktaiwan**\n- Powered up ~**164,746 HIVE** · Powered down ~**880,008 HIVE** (7d)\n\n---\n\n\n**Top Community Posts This Week**\n\n**HP** means **Hive Power** paid to the author after payout—not “horsepower.”\n\n- **286 HP** — [@schmidi](https://peakd.com/@schmidi/this-were-the-hive-open-days-in-alicante-3004-03052026-gereng): *Hive Open Days in Alicante [GER/ENG]* — 1,034 votes, 64 comments. The flagship recap from the Alicante meetup.\n- **245 HP** — [@demotruk](https://peakd.com/@demotruk/the-rise-abuse-and-quiet-migration-of-introduceyourself): *The Rise, Abuse, and Quiet Migration of #introduceyourself* — 552 votes, 37 comments. A thoughtful look at a tag every longtime user remembers.\n- **230 HP** — [@palomap3](https://peakd.com/@palomap3/hive-open-days-dia-3-hive-open-days-day-3): *Hive Open Days: Day 3* — 1,420 votes, 47 comments. Bilingual daily coverage with huge vote pull.\n- **209 HP** — [@hivefest](https://peakd.com/@hivefest/save-the-date-hivefest-xi-barcelona-the-heart-of-catalonia-17-20-sept-2026): *Save the Date: HiveFest XI – Barcelona* — 522 votes, 74 comments. Official fest news feeding the Barcelona arc.\n- **148 HP** — [@livinguktaiwan](https://peakd.com/@livinguktaiwan/hod-alicante-2026-summary): *HOD Alicante 2026 summary* — 1,032 votes, 60 comments. Conference-style notes tying the week together.\n\n***Don't miss***\n\n- [@demotruk](https://peakd.com/@demotruk/why-spanish-speakers-stay-on-hive): *Why Spanish-Speakers Stay on Hive*\n- [@cutehive.com](https://peakd.com/@cutehive.com/hive-top-holders-v1-2-update-notes): *Hive Top Holders v1.2 update notes*\n- [@cadawg](https://peakd.com/@cadawg/hive-arena-a-top-down-shooter-battle-royale-powered-by-hive-blockchain-data): *HIVEMIND* game concept\n- [@iamkaye](https://peakd.com/@iamkaye/why-google-doesnt-hate-hive-it-just-cant-find-us): *Why Google Doesn't Hate Hive (It Just Can't Find Us)*\n- [@solominer](https://peakd.com/@solominer/solos-solar-array-production-stats-april-2026): *Solar production stats – April 2026*\n\n**Top tippers (7d):** [@gamingphoto](https://hive.blog/@gamingphoto), [@krazzytrukker](https://hive.blog/@krazzytrukker), and [@silversaver888](https://hive.blog/@silversaver888) led the week at roughly **3.7**, **2.7**, and **2.6 HBD** tipped.\n\n**Posting streaks:** [@tarazkp](https://peakd.com/@tarazkp), [@bradleyarrow](https://peakd.com/@bradleyarrow), [@elizabethbit](https://peakd.com/@elizabethbit), and [@silvertop](https://peakd.com/@silvertop) remain above **2,400 consecutive days** on-chain.\n\n---\n\n**This is HiveToday #82** — weekly coverage of the Hive blockchain ecosystem.\n\nConnect: [Hive](https://hivel.ink/@hivetoday) | [X](https://x.com/hivetoday) | [Substack](https://hivetoday.substack.com) | [Medium](https://medium.com/hivetoday) | [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/hivetoday.bsky.social) | [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/hivetoday) | [Nostr](https://nosta.me/npub14gcd064f7nl7l30hk7tkd3msmk3nwaygwkkzfxmlqgmmrr555pfqfcrsj6) | [Discord](https://discord.gg/PKYqbSGscD)\n\n[Get a Hive account](https://ecency.com/signup?referral=hivetoday) | HiveToday is an unofficial community newsletter, brought to you by [@hivetrending](https://hive.blog/@hivetrending)\n\n---\n\n\n**About Hive**\n\nHive is a decentralized proof-of-stake network for social apps, games, and finance tools. Witnesses you elect produce blocks. Most everyday actions—posts, votes, transfers—skip the small per-click fees common on other chains. Developers share open APIs and frontends so users can pick the app they like while keeping the same account.\n",
"createdAt": "2026-05-16T15:12:42.000Z",
"title": "Sunlit Handshakes, Late-Night Merges—and Barcelona on the Calendar",
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