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The current price of Hive is $0.05024 with a 3.00% change in the last 24 hours.
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Hive is a Layer 1 blockchain designed for social and content applications. It produces a block every three seconds, charges no transaction fees, and stores posts, comments and votes directly on chain. Block space is paid for with Resource Credits, a renewable allowance derived from staked HIVE, so the cost of posting depends on stake held rather than a fee per action.
Hive uses Delegated Proof of Stake: stakeholders elect witnesses, who produce blocks and set network parameters, and around 100 witnesses run nodes competing for slots. One clarification: this page describes the HIVE blockchain and its native token, not a Canadian mining company that once traded under a similar name.
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Hive has no founder in the usual sense. It was created on 20 March 2020 by a community hard fork of the Steem blockchain.
The trigger was governance, not technology. In February 2020, Justin Sun's Tron Foundation acquired Steemit Inc, the company behind Steem's largest application and holder of a very large pre-mined stake. When Steem's witnesses moved to neutralize it, several major exchanges voted customer deposits to replace the elected witness set. The community concluded that a chain whose governance could be captured this way was not the chain they signed up for, and forked.
Hive launched with the Steem state copied over and HIVE distributed to STEEM holders one for one, with the Steemit Inc stake excluded. That exclusion is the fork's central design decision: Hive exists specifically to be a chain where no single entity holds a decisive share. Its whitepaper is dated 28 September 2020, so it describes the chain as built rather than as proposed.
Delegated Proof of Stake with a small producing set A maximum of 21 witnesses produce per round: 20 elected by stake-weighted voting plus one rotating backup slot, which gives smaller operators regular production.
Fee-less transactions through Resource Credits Staked HIVE, called Hive Power, generates Resource Credits that regenerate over time, so ordinary users almost never encounter a cost. That is what makes on-chain social applications workable.
A three-asset model HIVE is liquid. Hive Power is staked HIVE granting voting weight, Resource Credits and a share of inflation, returned over 13 weekly installments. HBD is a separate token designed to track one US dollar.
Proof of Brain reward distribution Part of issuance goes to content by stake-weighted voting, with a separate downvote allowance so flagging does not consume a user's upvote budget.
An on-chain treasury The Decentralized Hive Fund takes a share of issuance and pays proposals stakeholders vote to support, funding development without a foundation controlling the purse.
The chain is verifiably live: a query to a public node in September 2026 returned a head block above 109.6 million, with irreversibility keeping pace.
Hive's own site counts 158 applications and 248 communities.
HIVE is used for:
HIVE is inflationary and has no hard cap. Issuance starts near 9.78 percent annually and narrows by 0.01 percentage points every 250,000 blocks until it reaches a 0.95 percent floor. Roughly 65 percent goes to content rewards, 15 percent to stakers, 10 percent to the Decentralized Hive Fund and the rest to witnesses.
Hive's security depends on how stake is distributed and on the honesty of the elected witnesses, who can be replaced quickly by stakeholder vote. The mechanisms that matter are continuous stake-weighted elections, a backup rotation that keeps the operator pool broad, witness price feeds used for HBD conversion (an oracle dependency), layered keys so a leaked posting key cannot move funds, and the 13-week power-down.
Hive exists because a community executed an exit. When governance was captured, the users forked, took the state with them and kept running, which makes it a working reference case for stakeholder exit in practice rather than in theory. It is also a rare fee-less chain with genuine consumer usage: social applications at scale need something close to its Resource Credit model, because charging per post does not survive contact with real users.
HIVE trades on centralized exchanges, and availability varies by region. Because HIVE is the native coin of its own chain, withdrawals require a Hive account name rather than a hexadecimal address, and many exchanges require a memo. Getting either wrong can cause permanent loss, so check the deposit instructions.
HIVE is commonly associated with venues such as:
Pairs are usually quoted against USDT, BTC or KRW.
HIVE can sit on an exchange, or in a Hive account secured by your own keys, so that daily posting does not expose spending authority. Key management tools are listed on the official wallets page. Stake can be held as Hive Power, which earns a share of issuance but takes 13 weeks to unwind, and HBD can sit in savings at the witness-set rate.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Hive is $0.05024 with a 3.00% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $93,179.44 representing a 7.13% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Hive is $27,638,745, ranking #453 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Hive is $56,190,058, calculated assuming the total supply of 1,118,445,313 HIVE is in circulation.
Circulating: 550,140,465. Total: 1,118,445,313. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, Hive traded between a low of $0.04851 and a high of $0.0507.
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The Bitcoin mining industry needs roughly $50 billion to complete planned AI infrastructure projects, with IREN, Riot Platforms and HIVE Digital facing major funding gaps.
HIVE’s BUZZ HPC unit has secured a five-year GPU cloud agreement valued at about $350 million, accelerating the miner’s expansion into AI infrastructure.
HIVE's BUZZ HPC signed a five-year, $350M GPU cloud deal, adding $70M in ARR, its second large NVIDIA cluster deal in two months.
HIVE Digital reports that GPUs for AI compute earn 10x more per hour than Bitcoin mining ASICs, prompting a revenue shift to over 50% from AI this year.
HIVE shares rose after BUZZ HPC signed a $220M AI cloud deal with Bell and Cohere, adding sovereign GPU capacity in Canada.
The deal is expected to add approximately $70 million in annual recurring revenue as the company scales its AI-focused operations.
