Top Hive Earners by Category | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest | May 2026

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 hbdstabilizer, 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.

@cryptoandcoffee is on the top followed by @acidyo.

There are more than 4k accounts that have received rewards in May 2026. The median payout is 16 HIVE, while the average is around 200 HIVE.

Top Curators

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive curators that earned the most in the month.

@blocktrades is on the top here followed by @alpha and @appreciator.

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 13k 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 8 accounts received funding in May 2026.

The @cczswap account is at the top here with 31k HBD, followed by@peakd, @keychain, etc. A total of 88k HBD was paid in May 2026.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from here, since it is dominant on the top, with 300k 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 25k HBD, followed by the @investgg. A total of 72k HBD was paid as interest rewards in May 2026. There is a small decline in the paid HBD interest, due to decline in the HBD in savings, but also the savings rate has slightly dropped from 14% to 12%.

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 accounts are on the top, with @lazy-panda as the top HBD interest receiver, with more DHF funded project afterwards. The value that is put in the system now is dominated from the DHF accounts.

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	Author	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	281,392	0	281,392
2	null	71,635	0	71,635
3	poshtoken	32,067	29,288	2,779
4	nomnomnomnom	31,096	0	31,096
5	commentrewarder	8,214	32	8,182
6	cryptoandcoffee	7,764	7,762	3
7	reward.app	7,689	0	7,689
8	acidyo	5,467	5,422	44
9	worldmappin	4,784	4,765	20
10	threespeakfund	3,606	0	3,606
11	bozz	3,522	3,490	32
12	tarazkp	3,500	3,498	1
13	erikah	3,467	3,431	36
14	avdesing	3,459	3,392	67
15	oflyhigh	3,266	3,264	2
16	ladytruckview	3,009	2,935	73
17	tattoodjay	2,879	2,835	43
18	gungunkrishu	2,868	2,842	27
19	papilloncharity	2,769	2,716	54
20	cutehive.com	2,663	932	1,730
21	daveks	2,581	2,557	24
22	meno	2,555	2,502	53
23	belkyscabrera	2,373	2,373	0
24	demotruk	2,354	2,340	14
25	palomap3	2,305	2,143	163
26	steemychicken1	2,285	2,285	0
27	sports.guy55	2,270	2,268	2
28	wiseagent	2,248	2,248	0
29	davidke20	2,237	2,159	78
30	yolimarag	2,188	2,188	0
31	claudio83	2,076	2,042	34
32	bhattg	2,016	1,922	94
33	galenkp	1,942	1,937	4
34	jlufer	1,939	1,021	918
35	revisesociology	1,875	1,868	8
36	macchiata	1,866	1,710	156
37	monochromes	1,862	1,820	42
38	jychbetter	1,841	1,841	0
39	michupa	1,826	1,825	1
40	gooddream	1,818	1,706	112
41	riverflows	1,794	1,792	1
42	rivalhw	1,788	1,788	0
43	ramisey	1,763	1,728	35
44	noemilunastorta	1,758	1,758	0
45	ruffatotmeee	1,744	1,742	2
46	starkerz	1,730	1,727	3
47	mango-juice	1,719	1,709	10
48	pranavinaction	1,708	1,708	0
49	detlev	1,701	1,698	3
50	leofinance	1,692	29	1,664
51	ecency	1,679	1,628	51
52	kristal24	1,675	1,675	0
53	mrspointm	1,674	1,674	0
54	elizabeths14	1,672	1,656	16
55	livinguktaiwan	1,658	1,636	22
56	untilwelearn	1,625	1,625	0
57	zekepickleman	1,616	1,616	0
58	ph1102	1,610	1,374	236
59	alexa.art	1,609	1,604	5
60	bxt	1,607	1,607	0
61	noalys	1,603	1,603	0
62	josediccus	1,597	1,588	9
63	jlinaresp	1,591	1,586	5
64	virgilio07	1,584	1,584	0
65	sagarkothari88	1,580	1,533	47
66	asgharali	1,580	1,580	0
67	taniagonzalez	1,562	1,552	10
68	cetb2008	1,553	1,553	0
69	honeydue	1,550	1,542	8
70	marpa	1,540	1,535	5
71	leannwithdoublen	1,536	1,527	9
72	lauramica	1,532	1,520	13
73	hanshotfirst	1,532	1,530	2
74	cielitorojo	1,531	1,531	0
75	vikisecrets	1,525	1,524	1
76	silversaver888	1,521	1,519	2
77	irenenavarroart	1,516	1,515	1
78	curamax	1,511	1,511	0
79	nurfay	1,504	1,503	1
80	jesuslnrs	1,500	1,440	61
81	omarcitorojas	1,487	1,487	0
82	thecrazygm	1,480	1,465	15
83	jelenaa	1,459	1,448	12
84	friendlymoose	1,444	1,421	23
85	seattlea	1,437	1,435	2
86	katerinaramm	1,427	1,214	212
87	morepina	1,416	1,416	0
88	x-rain	1,413	1,380	34
89	yesenia.romero	1,408	1,408	0
90	saavedraa	1,394	1,394	0
91	akipponn	1,392	1,390	2
92	rlathulerie	1,378	1,378	0
93	vesytz	1,370	1,364	6
94	nainaztengra	1,361	1,361	0
95	equipodelta	1,332	1,330	3
96	fermionico	1,323	1,323	0
97	logen9f	1,317	1,317	0
98	yessi08	1,302	1,302	0
99	eugelys	1,300	1,257	44
100	vvodjiu	1,294	1,293	2