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The current price of Hivemapper is $0.002328 with a 5.46% change in the last 24 hours.
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Hivemapper is a decentralized street-level mapping network on Solana. Drivers mount a purpose-built dashcam, drive their normal routes, and the imagery they collect becomes map data that businesses buy. Contributors are paid in HONEY, and buyers pay by burning HONEY for non-transferable Map Credits.
That burn-and-mint loop is the design. Buyers must destroy tokens to consume the data, and part of what they destroy is reissued to the people who collected the imagery, so the token settles between two groups rather than acting as a reward with no sink.
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Hivemapper was founded in 2015 by Ariel Seidman, initially building maps from drone imagery and working with United States government customers. The drone approach did not scale to continuous road coverage, so the company pivoted to dashcams. The network launched publicly on Solana on November 1, 2022, the launch date the documentation also gives for HONEY. Since then the hardware and enterprise side has moved under the Bee Maps brand, and the third-generation device, the Bee, has replaced the original Hivemapper Dashcam and Dashcam S, both listed as discontinued.
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Buy or subscribe to a certified device Bee Maps is the only certified manufacturer. The current offer for the United States and Puerto Rico is a Bee Membership at 19 US dollars per month on a 24-month contract, bundling the camera, an LTE data plan and the Beekeeper fleet software, with a separate Bee LTE option for other regions. Contributing carries a recurring cost, not a one-time purchase.
Mount it and drive The Bee carries a 12.3 megapixel main sensor at 30 Hz, 800p stereo depth, 64 GB of onboard flash, dual-band L1 and L5 GNSS for lane-level positioning, a six-axis inertial measurement unit, edge compute, and two USB-C ports. Imagery uploads over WiFi or cellular.
Accept that not all driving pays equally The global reward pool is split into regional pools by progress score, then among contributors by factors including usable imagery, clarity of view and map tile saturation. A road already well covered and fresh pays far less than one that is not, and earnings are not guaranteed to cover the subscription.
Optionally contribute without driving Map editing and quality assurance, framed as training the map AI through annotation, is a separate reward category needing no device.
Imagery is collected at the edge, uploaded, verified and assembled into map data structured over a hexagonal grid. Customers do not buy imagery with dollars directly. They burn HONEY to create Map Credits and spend credits against the map.
Under MIP-26, effective May 4, 2026, consumption became demand-driven. Developers place hex-based work orders naming the geography they want and a priority bid, priced at roughly 0.011 credits per unique H3 level 12 hex cell fulfilled, and contributors completing validated work earn from the resulting pool. Imagery collected before 2026 carries an extra burn of 0.2 HONEY per credit.
HONEY has a documented maximum supply of 10,000,000,000, allocated 40 percent to contributors, 20 percent to investors, 20 percent to employees, 15 percent to Hivemapper Inc. and 5 percent to the Hivemapper Foundation. Two mechanics define how it moves.
Minting to contributors New HONEY is minted weekly for contributions made over the previous Monday to Sunday. The documentation allocates 80.5 percent of each weekly mint to map coverage, 10 percent to map editing and quality assurance, and 9.5 percent to operational rewards, leaving 90.5 percent for contributors. The weekly amount follows Global Map Progress rather than a fixed schedule, and the Foundation can adjust the weightings.
Burning for access Map Credits are fixed at 0.0075 US dollars each, decoupling what customers pay from what HONEY is worth at that moment. A customer burning HONEY receives whatever number of credits that dollar amount buys. Of the HONEY burned, 75 percent is permanently destroyed and 25 percent is reminted as Map Consumption Rewards, capped under MIP-15 at 500,000 per week.
Other reward types include Map Coverage (Fleet), HONEY Burst for customer-requested areas, Bounties funded by Foundation proposals, and one-off Foundation rewards such as device activation grants.
One verification note on the cap. HONEY is an SPL token on Solana at mint address 4vMsoUT2BWatFweudnQM1xedRLfJgJ7hswhcpz4xgBTy with 9 decimals. A read of that mint account on 2026-09-11 showed both a mint authority and a freeze authority still set rather than renounced, so the 10,000,000,000 maximum is a policy commitment enforced by governance, not a limit enforced by the token account. That is normal for a network minting rewards weekly, but it should be understood for what it is.
Most token-incentivized hardware networks reward supply and hope demand arrives. Hivemapper routes demand through the token: map data cannot be bought without burning HONEY, and Map Credits cannot be held as a tradable asset because they are non-transferable. Pricing credits in dollars while paying contributors in tokens also means a customer cost does not swing with the token, which is what makes the network sellable to businesses at all. MIP-26 extends that by letting buyers point incentives at specific hexes.
Against Helium, Hivemapper sells a data product rather than connectivity, and its contributors produce a perishable asset: road imagery goes stale, so the network needs continuous re-collection rather than static coverage. Against DIMO, which reads vehicle telemetry, Hivemapper looks at the world outside the car. Against traditional mapping operations, its cost structure differs because it does not own or route a fleet. Contributors carry hardware cost and route risk, and saturation mechanics mean the most convenient roads are usually the least rewarding.
Settlement, reward distribution and token burns happen on Solana, so the token layer inherits Solana security. The harder problem is data integrity, handled off chain through imagery verification and quality scoring, backed by device certification so only approved hardware can contribute. Governance changes flow through Map Improvement Proposals.
Hivemapper is one of the few token networks where the whole loop can be traced end to end: a person buys a camera, drives, produces a verifiable asset, a business burns tokens to consume it, and most of what is burned never comes back. Whether the economics work for an individual driver is a separate question, and often they will not. As a demonstration that a token can settle real-world data collection at scale, it remains among the most complete examples available.
HONEY trades on centralized exchanges and on Solana decentralized exchanges. Availability varies by jurisdiction. Contributors also receive HONEY directly from the network.
HONEY is commonly available on:
Confirm the mint address before adding HONEY manually. Token symbols on Solana are not unique, and the documentation maintains a warning page about fraudulent airdrops using the Hivemapper name.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Hivemapper is $0.002328 with a 5.46% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $58,049.61 representing a 6.89% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Hivemapper is $15,263,168, ranking #603 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Hivemapper is $23,281,529, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 10,000,000,000 HONEY is in circulation.
Circulating: 6,555,912,758. Total: 6,557,867,043. Max: 10,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Hivemapper traded between a low of $0.002306 and a high of $0.00248.