Hive Keychain Development Proposal 2026

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A lot has happened this past year, and if you've followed @keychain account posts, you know that we have continued building, improving, and expanding Hive Keychain across our mobile apps, browser extensions, and supporting infrastructure.

Let's start with some numbers to put Hive Keychain in perspective:

For a detailed breakdown of how resources have been used, please refer to our transparency report: 👉 Transparency Report

The current proposal is coming to an end, but there is still much we want to achieve to continue strengthening Hive’s ecosystem — which is why we are submitting this new proposal.

Hive Keychain DHF

This new proposal will start immediately after the current one ends, with no overlap between the two.

Our vision remains unchanged and continues to focus on three main goals:

Development: Maintaining, improving, and expanding our extensions, mobile apps, and infrastructure based on user needs and ecosystem demand.

Cooperation: Working with dApps and services both inside and outside of our Hive ecosystem.

Bridging Hive: Expanding Hive’s reach through multichain integrations, starting with EVM (now in internal testing phase).

I. Development

Developing and maintaining Hive Keychain products remains our core objective.

The following sections highlight both what has been achieved and what we aim to improve next across this full stack.

1/ Keychain Extension

Our extension remains at the forefront of development and continues to be the first platform to introduce new features.

Some highlights from this year:

Introduced Keyless Mode for travelers, nomads or single use of a borrowed device
Started the integration of several on/off ramp, swap and bridge providers for Hive and non-Hive cryptos
Expanded anonymous request capabilities
Introduced new requests and detailed history for operations such as savings and escrow transactions
Added more information on the confirmation pages for better verification
Improved RPC handling
Improved the Hive Multisig integration
Added Shortcuts to change account and navigate through the extension instantly
Started internal testing of the EVM integration. More on this below (see 3/)
Prepared a key change and account recovery tool
Continuous UX and performance improvements
Implemented all new features introduced by the Hard Fork: extended multisig window, multiple recurrent transfers to the same user, new Voting Mana calculation

We also have a few features that have already been developed but will be shipped with EVM as they are used on both ecosystems:

A proper contact list
A standardized warning system
Customizable push notifications

Next steps:

Improve EVM UX based on our several rounds of testing. After the current internal round of testing, we will go through a closed Alpha, then an open Beta. More on this in section III/
Keep enhancing our notifications system by making it more beginner-friendly
Continue implementing community-requested features
Add support for Hive-x402 for Hive native payments (Read more)
Introduce our Gamification system (on both extension and mobile), to encourage user retention on Hive, by giving incentives to try different dApps. This is still in the ideation stage, but here are some ideas we have in mind:
- Show users'stats with a leaderboard for each parameter.
- Reward them for healthy, productive, or socially valuable actions with an XP system.
- Display badges, levels, and progress bars inside Keychain.
- Trigger optional shareables for social media or Hive posts.
- Create campaigns with other dApps to promote all Hive dApps beyond our Ecosystem page.
Maintain compatibility with future Hive Hardforks
Introduce new Partnerships and chain integrations
Add Lite Account support when available
Add a more streamlined Ticker Action page
Add support for more hardware wallets
Introduce an interactive Onboarding Guide for new users
Users / Devs support
More in the III/ Multichain section

2/ Keychain Mobile

Mobile continues to be one of our main focuses. It is now very close to full parity with the extension in terms of features, except, of course, for the coming EVM integration. On top of that, our in-App browser is now packed with new features which make your everyday mobile Hive experience even better!

Some highlights from this year:

Improved browser navigation through gestures
Enhanced favorites & history Management (introduced reordering and deletion through gestures)
Added the Dynamic Hive Engine RPC to avoid intrusive "Change RPC" popups
Download Media and Find in Page browser features
Ability to "Open", "Open in another tab", "Copy link", or "Share" a link after a long press in the browser
Security updates and account management improvements
Swap integrations and feature parity with extension
Big refactor of the login now allows direct biometrics login rather than necessitating both the PIN and biometrics
Browser navigation state is now preserved across restarts
Added a way to change the login PIN code
Performance and UX refinements
Expanded anonymous request capabilities
Introduced new requests and detailed history for operations such as savings and escrow transactions
Added more information on the confirmation pages for better verification
Implemented all new features introduced by the Hard Fork: extended multisig window, multiple recurrent transfers to the same user, and new Voting Mana calculation
New languages added

Next steps:

Bring full EVM support to mobile. We made a clear separation between our EVM UI/UX and the utilities that can be shared between the extension and the mobile Apps. This will cut our development time drastically, although it will remain a huge endeavour.
Continue improving browser usability
Expand feature parity with extension
Optimize performance and stability
Introduce the gamification system
Introduce an interactive Onboarding Guide for new users
Add light accounts when they come out
Enable NFC capabilities and integrate the Debit Card (we are currently waiting for the @hivedebit team to provide us their SDK)
Introduce portfolio and ticker widgets for iOS
Enable import of accounts through a .kc file, as is already possible on the extension side
Implement OTA (over the air) updates on mobile so we can deliver faster updates directly in-App)
Add support for Hive-x402 (see in 1/)
Submit an appeal to Apple after they forced us to remove the 'Conversion' core chain feature from the App

3/ Keychain Swaps

Keychain Swap continues to play a central role in connecting tokens across Hive and beyond. This year, we improved safety and reliability (better price handling, failure cases, and routing) while integrating providers such as StealthEX and Changelly to open direct paths between Hive assets and the wider crypto ecosystem.

The next evolution is the introduction of a full aggregator experience inside Keychain. The first version will combine Portfolio, Buy, Sell, Swap, and Bridge into a single interface, powered by multiple providers (6 to start). This will allow users to seamlessly move between Hive, L2 tokens, and external chains while always getting the best route based on price and reliability.

Beyond UX, this is a key part of our business model: by aggregating liquidity and routing across providers, Keychain can begin generating sustainable revenue, helping reduce long-term dependency on DHF funding while continuing to deliver core infrastructure to the ecosystem.

We already started working on the Aggregator, and here is a sneak peek for you:

Next steps:

Expand routing across multiple swap providers, aggregators, and bridges to provide the fastest and cheapest routes
Integrate EVM-compatible assets
Launch the full Aggregator
Improve rates, reliability, and execution efficiency across providers
Improve and expand our Swap Widget capabilities to match our in-app Swap.

4/ SDK & Playground

Developer tooling remains a priority for easy access to all devs to our ecosystem and Hive. Making it easy to integrate Hive Keychain into any dapps is the fastest way to deploy any project on Hive, and for that, we:

Revamped the Playground (Gitbook-style interface)
Expanded request support for savings and all escrow transactions (transfer, accept, reject, dispute)
Improved documentation and testing tools

Next steps:

Continue improving developer onboarding processes
Expand SDK capabilities with EVM requests
Support new request types and integrations (including EVM)
Update our landing page with all the information about EVM integration and new partnerships
Create a Keychain AI Skill to make it even easier to integrate Keychain

5/ Infrastructure & Backend

Our backend infrastructure has evolved significantly, especially with the introduction of multichain (EVM) support.

A key component of this is the development of a light node system, a heavy backend layer that continuously monitors addresses across supported chains. This is necessary in order to provide advanced features that are not readily available on public RPCs, while mitigating the costs of using third-party providers.

Supporting this level of functionality requires a robust and scalable infrastructure, with significant DevOps work to maintain uptime and performance while adding multiple third-party integrations to enrich data and capabilities

This backend layer powers critical features such as:

Full transaction history across all chains
Token and NFT discovery and metadata enrichment
Smart contract interaction analysis
Gas fee oracles and transaction gas estimation
Cross-chain asset visibility

As Keychain evolves into a multichain wallet, this infrastructure becomes a core pillar of the product, ensuring a seamless and reliable experience for users across all supported ecosystems.

6/ And much more

Over the past year, we have continued delivering features across all components of our stack, including several core projects that power our ecosystem. Beyond the extension, mobile apps, swaps, and SDK, our work also spans:

Keychain Store: the easiest way for merchant payments + global map, powering 77 businesses (mostly in Venezuela) to accept HBD payments in their store
Hive Multisig: is now maintained by the Keychain team to provide multisig and 2FA on Hive here
Landing Page: hive-keychain.com with a new look, more languages, and better SEO performance
Keychain Commons: shared utilities across projects
Tools: Hive QR Code generator, recovery tool, our dashboard and more

II. Cooperation

1/ On Hive

We continue working closely with projects across the Hive ecosystem:

Supporting dApps with Keychain integration
Adding new dApps to our Hive ecosystem screens, for easy dApp discovery on both extension and mobile
Collaborating on onboarding and UX improvements
Contributing to ecosystem-wide features (multisig, 2fa)
Creating social campaigns with different dApps using our social channels

Future cooperations:

implementing the Hive Debit Card as soon as their SDK is ready
adding Hive-built swaps and bridges when production-ready (Magi swaps, wrapped HIVE, etc.)

2/ Outside of Hive

We are actively expanding Hive’s reach beyond its current ecosystem:

Partnerships with swap providers and aggregators
Discussions with external crypto companies and L1 blockchains
Pushing for HIVE / HBD listing whenever possible

Some providers we've contacted already support Hive, while others are evaluating integration. These efforts aim to make Hive more accessible and connected globally. We're also looking into digital and physical debit card providers to see if there are some possibilities for Hive integration.

You can find more details about this topic in our latest transparency report.

III. Multichain

Multichain integration has become a major focus of our work over the past year and represents a significant investment of time and resources from the team. Although this code hasn't been deployed to production yet, it can be found in the feature/evm branch that is currently 697 commits ahead of the master branch. We strongly believe this major update will be a game-changer for Hive, as it will enable the ecosystem to connect directly with the broader crypto landscape rather than operate in isolation.

EVM integration is not just about adding new chains; it is about bringing liquidity, users, and interoperability to Hive, while making it easier for developers from outside ecosystems to interact with Hive using familiar standards.

We are currently in the internal testing phase of our EVM integration. This stage focuses on validating core flows, ensuring stability, and identifying edge cases before exposing the feature more broadly. Once we're satisfied with this, we will continue with a closed alpha testing phase with a few selected testers and finally, a wider open alpha, on which anyone will be able to participate.

We will actively look for testers willing to spend time using the product and providing meaningful feedback, as these testing phases will be critical to ensuring a solid transition to a multichain wallet.

Our first version aims to provide a full-fledged EVM wallet experience on 7 of the most popular EVM chains: Ethereum, Base, BSC, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, and Arbitrum, as well as their testnets.

To list a few of the many features we've implemented:

Account creation and management across selected EVM chains
Automatic token and NFT discovery
RPC handling
Full history
Account value
Token and NFT transfers
Contact list
Automatically switch to the chain the current dApp is using
Login and Transaction signing for EVM dApps
Gas fee calculation
Spam token/NFT detection
ENS detection
EVM Swaps
Smart contract analysis
Security warnings during dApp requests

Next steps:

Improve EVM UX and stability based on testing feedback
Expand supported features
Add chain coverage
Bring EVM support to mobile
Strengthen interoperability between Hive and EVM ecosystems
Add onboarding funnels from EVM users to Hive

IV. Additional Work

1/ Support

We continue to provide support through Discord and community channels, helping users and developers integrate and troubleshoot.

2/ Community Growth

We continue expanding Hive Keychain’s presence beyond Hive through social platforms (X, Linkedin) and partnerships.

3/ Infrastructure

We maintain and scale backend systems required to support our APIs, swaps, multisig, as well as our current multichain integration.

V. Budget

For this new proposal, we are reducing our budget to 540 HBD/day, a 10% decrease from our past proposal, in order to lower a bit our impact on the DHF. Our medium-term goal is to reduce further our proposal's budget once we have a stable income from our swap aggregation services. This cut, along with a non-negligible increase in our infrastructure and API costs due to the multichain integration, will translate into a 24% cut of our development costs. This has been rendered possible by the rapid improvement of AI technology, which allows us to greatly increase our output while reducing the manpower involved. That being said, there are limits to this, especially for software as security-sensitive as a crypto wallet. After these changes, our monthly budget will look as follows.

Development (2 full-time senior devs, 1 part-time): $ 11,400
CM & Ecosystem growth: $ 850
Tools (AI): $ 440
Tools (others): $ 130
Admin: ~ $ 1,000
Infrastructure: ~ $ 900
EVM third-party providers: ~ $ 480
Misc: ~ $ 1,000
Total: $ 16,200

For more information about these different items, read our transparency post.

VI. Commitments

Keep our extensions, mobile apps, and main projects open-source
Continue regular updates and transparency posts
Deliver features aligned with the proposal scope
Strive to generate more revenue through our swap features, in order to reduce our reliance on the DHF. Publish revenue publicly.
Include Hive in any way possible in all marketing efforts and collaborations with new partners.

VII. Our Team

@stoodkev : Founder - Witness @cedricguillas : Lead Developer @manuphotos : Ecosystem Growth Lead - Witness @yabapmatt : Advisor - Witness

VIII. Downloads & Contact

Find all apps, extensions, and resources here: 👉 Landing page

For support and discussions: 👉 Discord link

Support Hive Keychain development by voting for this proposal (#373) on PeakD, or with HiveSigner.

100% of the rewards of this post are going to the DHF

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My full support; excellent work, high quality and technology. Very well done; at Hive we continue to move forward and grow. And if this proposal aims to bring Hive closer to more users, excellent!
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Kudos to the developers and the brain behind these awesome developments.

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That's the goal! Thanks for your support!

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Quite interesting. Are you going to have a Hive-metamask bridge possible, that would be super cool and probably help move funds around bringing ETH and stablecoins to Hive.

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We will support chains available on Metamask directly within Keychain, using the same standards as Metamask. This means that any dApp currently using Metamask for signing would also work with Keychain right out of the box. As for our swap aggregator, it will work both with:

Keychain only (Hive + EVM)
combination of Keychain for Hive and Metamask for EVM tokens

Hope I'm answering your question =)

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I cannot wait to see, the main entry level issue for now i think is the lack of an easy way to connect big blockchains to hive, if this is solved, the potential is immense.

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For this new proposal, we are reducing our budget to 540 HBD/day, a 10% decrease from our past proposal, in order to lower a bit our impact on the DHF. Our medium-term goal is to reduce further our proposal's budget once we have a stable income from our swap aggregation services.

I suppose it would be great to see the current income numbers from these services? Just to check out if development is going in a good direction of self-sustainability... I know that numbers are probably low, but having a visual chart (for example) of income in the last 12-24 months would be a great incentive and motivation for others to support this proposal... 😉

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Great question! We currently only have our swap service on Hive and Hive Engine, since our wallet only serves Hive at the moment. The problem is that is the liquidity is very small, we make a few hundred HBDs, up to a thousand (rare), on a good month. One of the advantages of having Keychain become multichain is that we will then be able to provide access to many more chains and tokens, as well as some types of services that simply do not exist on Hive. Take on/off ramps for example. You'd be able to buy or sell HIVE or HBD directly from Keychain, with only one intermediary step to convert it into an EVM token. We don't offer this for now as no provider currently provides a direct HIVE on/off ramp.

EDIT: As briefly mentioned in the commitment section, we will prepare a public page to keep our earnings transparent once everything is ready on the EVM side.

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My guess is that since Hive Keychain already supports Hive-Engine they probably would support MAGI. Whether or not Hive Keychain would continue the support after @lasseehlers drives most of the users away from that ecosystem with his toxic as Hell "crypto expert" LARPing is harder to predict.

But at least peakd.com already has the barebones for a MAGI wallet.

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Replying to @holovision.cash

Actually, we already developed Magi integration long ago (it was still VSC at the time). We will release it when there's enough demand for it.

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I use it daily, and when features were requested they got delivered... There is much more to come and it's a must for hive, I'll support this

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Thanks for your support!

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Fantastic product, use it daily. Glad to see the live development and plans for enhancement, keep up the great work! !PIZZA

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Will do!

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Great progress and a clear vision for where Keychain is heading. The multichain/EVM direction is a strong strategic move, and i appreciate the transparency around the roadmap. It’s a big year ahead, and i’m supporting the proposal with the hope that the focus remains on the features that bring the highest impact to the ecosystem — looking forward to seeing the execution unfold.

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Thanks for your support! That will be a lot of work but yes I think this could impact Hive for the best

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Well done! I'm always with you!

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Thanks for your continuous support! =)

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Avec plaisir, mon ami ! 🤗

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Excellent team and great news! Many improvements are coming to the app this year.

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Thank you!

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Is there an issue with the browser in keychain app? Hive Engine site doesn’t work in it at all but oddly does anywhere else I try, meaning any standard browser. Hive engine automatically takes me to keychain so I always used the browser in it but it’s not functional at all now.

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Hey @stoodkev @keychain I think I need some help. I've updated the app to 2.13 and can't log into the app, it says PIN is wrong even though it is not.

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Great! I support this proposal because the keychain is essential for me. I don't think there's anything similar on Hive that provides such security and peace of mind. You're doing an excellent job, and my greatest wish is that you make Hive a better place for everyone and that, thanks to your efforts and progress, more users join. I wish you much success.

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Keychain app browser having issues again?

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I’m having same problem now? Are you still Gene?

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How so? There was no update affecting the browser recently. Can you describe the issue here or on our Discord?

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So nothings down? Weird, hive engine told me I should blame browser for it not working, I was using the browser on keychain app. It didn’t sound right honestly, sorry for the confusion. Just wanted to check 👍.

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@keychain @forkyishere I've read about efforts to "Promote HIVE/HBD listing where possible Some providers we've contacted already support Hive, while others are considering integration. These efforts aim to make Hive more accessible and globally connected. We're also examining digital and physical debit card providers to see if there's any potential for integration with Hive." HIVE is currently trading well below $0.05068. As an investor, what do you intend to do to drive the price up? It's literally time for Hive to be listed on various exchanges. On some current platforms, you can only buy it, but not trade it. It's frustrating to see thousands of 'shitcoins' listed with no real utility or value, while Hive is listed on just a few exchanges. I'd also like to know the number of users and the total number of projects and native dApps currently running on the Hive blockchain. Thank you!!!

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As an investor, what do you intend to do to drive the price up?

I don't think I can explain this to you in a few words... I would need to have a very long conversation first and try to understand what you know first about Hive, otherwise, I could literally confuse you.

It's literally time for Hive to be listed on various exchanges.

Hive is listed on a lot of exchanges... check https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hive-blockchain Adding more exchanges does not necessarily help, because if there are no traders or traders don't care about trading Hive, then its a loss of time and money to list HIVE in those. Plus, centralised exchanges demand expensive fees most of the time...

You have a lot of other options too:

You can trade HIVE for HBD on the internal market for free (no fees) - my preferred place, to be honest.
You can trade via pools on Magi (a layer 2 under HIVE) now too... which has a bridge to BTC already, and soon more will come, plus it is aimed to be decentralised, non-KYC and no limits dependent. The current only interface with all the functionalities is Altera: https://altera.magi.eco
You can trade "pegged" HIVE or HBD and/or many other tokens via Hive Engine (another older layer 2 under HIVE). There are many interfaces for this... including Hive Keychain (PC/Desktop version) where you can trade between Hive Engine (layer 2) and Hive (layer 1).
Others, but probably harder to explain...

On some current platforms, you can only buy it, but not trade it. It's frustrating to see thousands of 'shitcoins' listed with no real utility or value, while Hive is listed on just a few exchanges.

Agree on the sentiment of cryptocurrencies in general. But again, I don't think we have need for more exchanges... please provide evidence of what exchanges would bring in terms of users... give an example for me to understand.

I'd also like to know the number of users and the total number of projects and native dApps currently running on the Hive blockchain.

It's very dificult to tell number of users, because of how blockchains work... in general. You have many tools that would tell you how many accounts exist and how many are active... for example, use this tool to run your own investigation: https://hivescan.info

dapps, the other day, I have asked AI to count the number of repos that have code that interacts with Hive, and AI estimated around 400-600 dapps (repos), but these are just the public repos, there are more private and others that the source code is not public yet. I have probably used +100 or so... estimated by the almost 10 years of life I have here... In my view, it's a bit irrelevant at this stage how many exist, especially now with AI vibe coding... what matters is they do "useful" things and get used by users, which given the nature of Hive, most of them are open source, and anyone can either run them, or play with them and create new ones. There are too many things around, and that can create confusion among users that don't know how to navigate quality.

Let me know what KIND of dapps you are looking for, as I don't think useful to give you just the ones I like... because you may dislike them or not be interested.

For example, all the tools I have given you here, are Hive dapps. With the exception of the CoinMarketCap website, obviously.

Hope to have helped with this comment. I am happy to continue the conversation if you have more to ask or need more details.

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Hi @forkyishere , thanks for replying. I don’t know what to do to raise the price, a few years ago, I suggested not burning tokens so as to reduce their number, but I read that the idea was rejected. I think that improving social platforms like 3speak, liketu, by working on graphics, taking content from YouTube and liketu from Instagram would help. Also, bringing in companies, working with production companies, music studios, film production houses, the same goes for liketu, museums, and art galleries. This would also improve the quality, which currently discourages me from posting. I use Instagram more for graphics, content, and companies, art galleries, and museums. This would encourage users to switch to these social platforms. I’m sorry that d.buzz closed down, as there’s now Wsocial in Europe, as you’ve probably read on X, which uses the AT protocol, a “technological engine” that aims to create a decentralized social ecosystem where users are not locked into a single proprietary platform. Bluesky is currently the most famous application built on this protocol, but it’s not the only one. I do know that being listed costs a lot. I see that it is not listed on Kraken, but it is possible to buy it there, the same goes for Bitpanda, and crypto.com where you can also buy HBD. Hive keychain and hive creator should promote the few social media platforms as much as possible, at least the two mentioned above. For me, Hive is like Google, which has a browser, an operating system, mail, YouTube, and Meta, WhatsApp, and Facebook. This is what we should tell users and potential investors so that they buy Hive instead of BTC, Solana, Shiba, etc., which have no value because they have nothing. I read that Peakd had to ask for a little bit of money because of the value of Hive in order to continue their business.

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I will start by saying, you might not be considering a LOT of things here... and I am going to assume (note me saying assume) you don't know all that is happening around Hive, all the apps, all the developers initiatives, all the developing at the core level, etc.

And the reason I am stating this "assumption", is because I also don't know it!

And Hive is such a large decentralized community that is very hard to say "We should do this, because that solves that". We can surely try, but I can already tell you, it will never solve things in the long term... why? because the crypto market is constantly evolving, people are constantly evolving, its a mess in terms of "when will we know the current state", to "define a clear and robust strategy" in order to raise the price (which by the way, is not a real objective for a decentralized chain per si, just a tool to attract investors).

I think you are looking to resolve a very complex problem, with very good suggestions... when the problem isn't resolvable by a single strategy. And because of all things that constantly are adapting, if you don't form the base layer of something that can survive, you can't control it anymore, and you can't define any strategies. And then, its just what it is...

Hive is people... and people change. Therefore the value of each person, also changes... So, Hive value will always change... and if one thinks that there is a magical recipe that will make Hive go to 1k USD, well... I am sorry to disapoint you, there is not.

Having that said, it does not mean it can't one day reach that... but what I am trying to say, is that even if we do ALL the "right things" (not in the sense of these are the correct ones to do, but in the sense of navigating towards the direction of accruing scarcity to the token and making it speculatively more valuable) that would exist in the world... like...

... make it deflationary instead of inflationary system... ... burn all the HBD in the HDF... ... big investor constantly doing marketing on F1, Football, basketball, racing sports, everywhere... even on rockets! ... Lots of money from a big investor for conferences around the world with free food and events... ... plugging the code into comercial businesses that now depend on Hive... ... an so on, you get the idea...

EVEN if you would do all these and more, you won't get the 1k USD miracle guaranteed...

WHY!!!?

Because Hive is people... people change! And I can guarantee you (even if I can't really... up to you for taking my word or not) that even if you do all the above, the price would eventually go down... again.

Investors would like a ROI
Big scammers will want to attack Hive and due to how humans work, big investors would get scammed, and liquidation of large amounts would cause a lot of damages...
Security of the chain would be overlooked... vs monetary value or desire to make a profit.
High costs of running infrastructure because of scale (deflationary systems don't scale or reach high costs very soon) - hence why Hive is inflationary...
etc...

There are so many variables, that assuming there is a solution, is basically irrelevant and pointless.

So, what should we do? Give up?

NO! Not me at least...

This is best experience I have ever had in my life, in terms of being at the edge of technology and people at the same time.

Hive should never be seen as "this will get me rich one day". That's BTC... lucky gambling, winning a lottery or a lucky stock purchase that 1000Xed like NVIDIA, etc...

Hive is a social experiment, run by Humans! Not by machines... 😎

I LOVE HIVE! And I understand what you are trying to say, but the right way forwards is not trying to raise the price. That's a temporary solution in my view. I am not saying we should not try, I am saying, technically that's temporary. There is way more things that need to be in place, for that to be cost effective.

The way forward is to adjust this experiment (which is already possible and done by design) until the mass expansion of its community reaches its autonomous existence - by Forky

What does that even mean? In simple words, fine tune the way Hive works so that the rate that Hive expands in terms of users and their stake is higher than the rate of users giving up or selling peanuts (at the moment).

Once that happens, Hive will be what you probably always dreamed about, and maybe even more...

That state is yet to be observed, and depends on so many things, that again, I would not wish to go through it here. Even if by now I might already regret if I have confused you with all this huge comment.

And again, to my point with all this, raising the price with hype, will be temporary... raising the price by doing marketing will be temporary... raising the price by creating scarcity will be temporary... etc...

Anyways, I am not (I can't say never because I am human, but if you discount that part, then its, never) giving up, you should not give up too if you like or identify with anything I just said, even if any part of my comments reduce your motivation.

Hive is people!

Contribute what you can, connect with people around the world... learn how it works... use what you like, feedback or do what's in your control. Own it, by having stake on it...

I am very sentimental today... sorry. See you around!

Forky, out.

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hive-keychain — Activity Summary (2025-04-16 → 2026-04-16)

Headline numbers

Metric	Value
Repositories (total / active)	25 / 17
Commits	1,013
Lines added	625,796
Lines deleted	561,909
Net lines	+63,887
PRs opened	97
PRs merged	29
PRs closed without merge	57
PRs still open	~11
Issues opened	11

Per-repo breakdown (active repos only)

Repo	Commits	+Added	−Deleted
hive-keychain-mobile	580	472,488	443,462
hive-keychain-extension	285	104,049	83,711
hive-keychain-commons	46	1,775	1,826
keychain-sdk-playground	26	5,420	5,563
hive-keychain-api	13	7,879	1,306
keychain-landing	13	951	174
evm-e2ee	11	8,004	221
keychain-sdk	9	2,868	1,385
hive-tx-js	9	4,061	4,089
hive-multisig-frontend	8	7,626	6,302
tutorial	5	994	914
sscjs	4	9,422	11,925
swap-widget	2	255	1,027
hive-account-recovery	1	0	0
react-shimmer	1	4	4
hive-multisig-sdk	0	0	0
keychain-store	0	0	0

Dormant repos (no pushes in the window)

hive-qrcode, hive-qrcode-generator, hive-multisig-backend, hive-multisig-granularity-bot, hive-multisig-onboarding, hive-multisig-2fa, stores-map, hive-keychain-landing (archived).

Observations

hive-keychain-mobile dominates — ~57% of commits, ~75% of additions, ~79% of deletions. Those line totals almost certainly include lockfiles and generated assets; real "human-written" churn is a good deal smaller.
hive-keychain-extension is the next powerhouse (~28% of commits).
Merge ratio is low: 29 of 97 opened PRs merged (~30%). 57 closed-without-merge suggests lots of bot PRs (Dependabot / Renovate) being dismissed, or heavy PR triage.
Strategic focus in the window: core wallet (mobile + extension) plus a clear push on EVM (evm-e2ee, +8k lines) and API (hive-keychain-api, +7.8k / −1.3k — mostly growth).
Several side repos went quiet (hive-multisig-*, hive-qrcode*, onboarding) — the multisig line appears to be in maintenance mode.

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There are actually many more commits than that on the extension side if you check the feature/evm branch (807 commits)

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PIZZA!

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Please consider switching to maintenance mode

Right now it looks like people grabbing silverware off the Titanic while it sink

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17 votes

I've said it several times, I don't believe stopping development is the way forward if we want the price of HIVE to recover. Spend smarter instead. That's why we're aiming to work on things that can bring users to Hive, improve the ecosystem as a whole, and slowly reduce our weight on the DHF by generating revenue.

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1 vote

Clearly that is your opinion.

I have a different opinion. My opinion is based on the fact that we have NO MONEY.

While your idea is great, what would you suggest we do if we have no money?

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17 votes

Yeah I don't think we'll agree on that one. I don't see passivity improving the current situation.

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Replying to @stoodkev

I don't see any disagreement.

Either we have the CASH or we don't. It is as simple as that.

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18 votes

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2 replies

Were you using Hive Keychain when you were dumping your own LASSECASH token?

https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@holovision/lasseehlers-dumping-his-own-lassecash-token

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Hive Keychain Development Proposal 2026

Hive Keychain DHF

I. Development

1/ Keychain Extension

Some highlights from this year:

Next steps:

2/ Keychain Mobile

Some highlights from this year:

Next steps:

3/ Keychain Swaps

Next steps:

4/ SDK & Playground

Next steps:

5/ Infrastructure & Backend

6/ And much more

II. Cooperation

1/ On Hive

2/ Outside of Hive

III. Multichain

IV. Additional Work

1/ Support

2/ Community Growth

3/ Infrastructure

V. Budget

VI. Commitments

VII. Our Team

VIII. Downloads & Contact

Support Hive Keychain development by voting for this proposal (#373) on PeakD, or with HiveSigner.

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WHY!!!?

So, what should we do? Give up?

NO! Not me at least...

Hive is people!

hive-keychain — Activity Summary (2025-04-16 → 2026-04-16)

Headline numbers

Per-repo breakdown (active repos only)

Dormant repos (no pushes in the window)

Observations

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