Top Hive Earners by Category | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest | May 2025

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 hbdstabilizator, 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.

@oflyhigh is on the top.

There are around 8.5k accounts that have received rewards in April 2025. The median payout is 10 HIVE, while the average is around 110 HIVE.

Top Curators

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

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

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 12k 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 13 accounts received funding in May 2025.

The @valueplan account is on the top here, there was a big payout in May with 240k HBD.
The @vsc.network account is on the second spot here followed by @keychain, @ecency etc. A total of 350k HBD paid from DHF in May 2025.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, with 370k 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 27k HBD, followed by the @sps.dao and @yunnie. A total of 96k HBD was paid as interest rewards in May 2025.

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 @valueplan is on the top here followed by the @vsc.network and then @lazy-panda.

All the best
@dalz

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P.S. Most of the Hivers want to check the author rewards so here is a longer table with the top 100.

Rank	Account	Total	Author	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	201,706	0	201,706
2	null	77,560	0	77,560
3	reward.app	13,350	0	13,350
4	nomnomnomnom	7,463	0	7,463
5	poshtoken	6,647	4,815	1,832
6	commentrewarder	6,047	165	5,882
7	spk.beneficiary	3,632	0	3,632
9	oflyhigh	3,621	3,620	1
8	distriator.bene	3,509	0	3,509
10	cryptoandcoffee	3,068	3,068	0
11	hanshotfirst	2,987	2,986	1
12	tarazkp	2,838	2,831	6
13	acidyo	2,265	2,250	15
14	libertycrypto27	2,180	2,136	44
15	trumpman	2,065	2,064	1
16	taskmaster4450le	2,031	817	1,214
17	papilloncharity	2,020	1,970	50
18	solominer	1,974	1,941	33
19	galenkp	1,894	1,893	1
20	tattoodjay	1,878	1,856	21
21	bozz	1,854	1,843	11
22	steemychicken1	1,775	1,775	0
23	worldmappin	1,742	1,740	1
24	sports.guy55	1,730	1,730	0
25	edicted	1,718	1,717	1
26	mango-juice	1,708	1,708	0
27	curamax	1,674	1,673	1
28	lauramica	1,624	1,445	179
29	kkarenmp	1,607	1,606	1
30	x-rain	1,594	1,539	55
31	daveks	1,558	1,541	16
32	liketu	1,535	0	1,535
33	revisesociology	1,424	1,423	0
34	moeenali	1,414	1,413	0
35	meno	1,381	1,361	19
36	incublus	1,380	1,380	0
37	giathebao	1,374	1,374	0
38	macchiata	1,326	1,052	274
39	beelzael	1,308	1,305	3
40	nainaztengra	1,290	1,289	1
41	claudio83	1,285	1,282	2
42	leofinance	1,273	49	1,224
43	mipiano	1,238	1,218	21
44	gooddream	1,227	1,179	48
45	detlev	1,220	1,220	0
46	josediccus	1,217	1,214	3
47	ecoinstant	1,206	1,094	112
48	gungunkrishu	1,202	1,202	0
49	giuatt07	1,202	1,198	4
50	dalz	1,192	1,182	10
51	wiseagent	1,189	1,188	1
52	zing.fund	1,177	0	1,177
53	danielcarrerag	1,171	1,166	5
54	silversaver888	1,166	1,166	0
55	honeydue	1,150	1,075	75
56	r1s2g3	1,148	1,148	0
57	noemilunastorta	1,143	1,143	0
58	calebmarvel24	1,118	1,117	0
59	underlock	1,110	1,110	0
60	bhattg	1,101	1,077	24
61	jcrodriguez	1,098	888	210
62	bxt	1,095	1,095	0
63	neruel	1,086	1,086	0
64	anggreklestari	1,084	960	124
65	whoisjohn	1,065	1,063	1
66	mrspointm	1,064	1,064	0
67	mrdani12	1,063	1,063	0
68	hjsolf	1,060	1,060	0
69	sps.dao	1,045	34	1,011
70	celeste413	1,044	1,014	30
71	dbooster	1,031	1,031	0
72	vikisecrets	1,029	1,029	1
73	hive-105017	1,010	0	1,010
74	riverflows	1,003	1,002	1
75	avdesing	1,002	967	35
76	jychbetter	1,001	1,001	0
77	hive-140169	993	0	993
78	rivalhw	993	993	0
79	nurfay	987	986	1
80	pravesh0	987	609	377
81	tengolotodo	985	975	10
82	zhangyan-123	980	980	0
83	thebighigg	980	980	0
84	plantasticka	980	973	6
85	evelynchacin	971	971	0
86	livinguktaiwan	970	939	30
87	beauty197	968	968	0
88	mahar26	964	964	0
89	rtonline	961	960	0
90	yonilkar	958	349	609
91	beaker007	956	943	13
92	manujune	955	954	1
93	arieswilly	955	954	0
94	atyh	940	940	0
95	vinzie1	939	936	3
96	michupa	938	938	0
97	mattsanthonyit	937	937	0
98	davidke20	936	875	61
99	dwayne16	933	933	0
100	jlinaresp	933	918	15