Ecency spent the week tightening the bridge between Hive and the broader Web3 stack: sign up with MetaMask, link an existing Hive account, and even transact across chains from the app. Hive Keychain, meanwhile, said its EVM integration is entering formal testing — another path toward the same idea. On the product side, Hive Hangouts launched as a dedicated space for live voice rooms on Hive, and it showed up at the top of the week's reward chart. This issue connects those threads with core and frontend dev work, governance, and the posts the chain paid most attention to.

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Editor's Take

Three threads dominated the week. Ecency treated MetaMask as a first-class citizen — not a gimmick, but onboarding, account linking, and cross-chain transactions in the same product story as mobile 3.5.3 (AI tooling, 3Speak uploads, Waves redesign). Hive Keychain framing EVM work as entering testing signals that "Hive account meets EVM" is moving from slide deck to something operators can actually try. And Mantequilla Soft shipping Hive Hangouts gives creators a concrete venue: voice-first community without leaving the ecosystem.

Under the hood, hive.blog (denser) kept evolving — biometric unlock via WebAuthn, tighter e2e coverage, and polish on multi-image posts — while hivemind fixed an edge case where account_update could wipe profile metadata with empty strings. None of that is flashy on a changelog, but it is the kind of fix users feel when profiles stop "randomly" blanking.

The Story of the Week: Wallets, Bridges, and Hangouts

Last issue touched on core networking and explorer work; this week the product story is access. Ecency's MetaMask flow lowers friction for people who already live in browser wallets — they can land on Hive without treating account creation as a separate ritual. Keychain's EVM phase pushes the same boundary from the signing side: one key story, two teams, different surfaces.

Hive Hangouts adds a different dimension: not just how you log in, but where you spend time once you're here. Voice rooms tied to Hive identity are a bet on synchronous community — complementary to long-form posts and short updates. The launch post led this week's payout window, which is both a congratulations and a signal that curators noticed.

Development Pulse

hive.blog (denser) merged a meaningful stack of UX and reliability work: WebAuthn PRF support for biometric unlock, fixes for empty-login-challenge errors, multi-image upload ordering, a Hive API mock for Playwright tests, and CI that is easier to run behind caching proxies (npm and apt patterns echoed elsewhere). hivemind shipped a fix so account updates no longer overwrite JSON metadata with empty strings — important for any app that edits profiles often. haf picked up tokenizer download support alongside e5 embeddings; hive itself stayed in the "deps + CI ergonomics" lane with ecosystem package bumps and pip/apt proxy support for builds.

On GitHub, Mantequilla-Soft had the busiest week: hivesnaps moved hard on multi-account flows (active key storage, migration screens, login integration), new-3speak-tv landed Pro subscriptions and smarter post routing, and embedvideos hardened large uploads against timeouts. Core GitLab repos with no merges in the window are omitted here on purpose — silence isn't the story.

Project Spotlights

Ecency — Shipped Ecency Mobile 3.5.3 with AI tools, 3Speak uploads, and Waves redesign, alongside a coordinated MetaMask narrative: sign up, link an existing account, and transact across chains from the app. Mobile release post.

Hive Keychain — EVM integration entered its testing phase; iOS users saw a temporary change called out separately.

Mantequilla Soft / Hive Hangouts — Hive Hangouts is live, with a how-to for hosts and participants.

3Speak — Encoder network weekly report — week 18.

OCD — Continued niche community curation reports through the week.

Worldmappin — Daily Travel Digest cadence unchanged; strong signal in the hot feed.

Dungeon Cities — DHF & HDF explainer update from a DHF creator account.

Network Stats

HBD explained: Hive Backed Dollars are Hive's dollar-pegged token; the blockchain tracks HBD debt against the HIVE supply. When the debt ratio is high, new HBD minting stops (print rate hits zero) even though HBD still trades on markets — same family of mechanics we unpacked in issue #75; this week the snapshot is print rate 0 with effective HBD (~10M) after excluding @hive.fund treasury from the naive ratio helper.

Powering up: Power-ups still show conviction from individual accounts (see governance block); the seven-day net figure is negative because power-downs in the window were larger in aggregate — a macro headwind, not a verdict on every participant.

Governance

Twenty of the top 21 witnesses report v1.28.3; @deathwing remains on v1.28.0 — worth watching if the gap persists.

The DHF still routes the largest slices to long-running infrastructure: HBD Stabilizer (~12,000 HBD/day), VSC (~1,151 HBD/day), Hive Keychain (~600 HBD/day), and major dev and frontend proposals below that.

Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups

• Most powered up - 7 days | @ezrider — 25,853 HIVE
• Most powered up - 30 days | @honey-swap — 530,000 HIVE
• Total Hive powered up - 7 days | 157,470 HIVE
• Total Hive powered down - 7 days | 630,080 HIVE

Top Community Posts This Week

• 374 HP — @mantequilla-soft: Hive Hangouts is Live! Here's How to Use It — 441 votes, 10 comments. Launch + how-to for Hive-native voice rooms; curators treated it as the headline product story of the window.
• 323 HP — @theycallmedan: Preview of Hive AI — 931 votes, 39 comments. High vote count for an AI-direction teaser; the comments read like a mix of hype and skepticism in the best Hive tradition.
• 272 HP — @solominer: Further troubleshooting on Array-C — 446 votes, 23 comments. Ongoing grow-journal series; practical detail beats generic farming chatter.
• 266 HP — @solominer: Desfrán – Day 10 — 431 votes, 9 comments. Second high entry from the same author in the same payout slice — rare, and a sign of sustained curation on the thread.
• 261 HP — @asgarth: When NPM gets messy, let your agent do the boring part — 390 votes, 5 comments. PeakD-adjacent engineering voice; developer tooling metas continue to land with HP.

Don't miss

• From Orebić to Žuljana - Peljesac Peninsula, Croatia [ENG/PL] — @inmyframe
• More Success Stories with the Claude Subscription to HIVE related Projects… — @louis88
• If you can't handle me at the lows — @acidyo
• Proposal: Ecosystem Operations, Bizdev and Growth Retrospective — @crimsonclad
• Hiveinvite is dead - long live hiveinvite! — @pharesim
• Trading Activities on the Hive DEX are Trending Upwards — @dalz
• Why Hive Still Feels Like Home to Me — @curamax
• Quality over Quantity — @josediccus

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