Top Hive Earners by Category | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest | Apr 2026

[dalz]

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 hbdstabilizer, 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.

@cryptoandcoffee is on the top followed by @worldmapping and @acidyo.

There are more than 4k accounts that have received rewards in April 2026. The median payout is 16 HIVE, while the average is around 200 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 @blocktrades and @ocdb.

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 13k 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 12 accounts received funding in April 2026.

The @vsc.network account is at the top here with 35k HBD, followed by @cczswap, @keychain, @peakd etc. A total of 136k HBD was paid in April 2026.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from here, since it is dominant on the top, with 140k 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 25k HBD, followed by the @sps.dao. A total of 88k HBD was paid as interest rewards in April 2026. There is a small decline in the paid HBD interest, due to decline in the HBD in savings, but also the savings rate has slightly dropped from 15% to 14%, and now on occasions on 12%.

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 DHF funded @vsc.network account is on the top, followed by @lazy-panda as HBD interest receiver, with more DHF funded project afterwards. The value that is put in the system now is dominated from the DHF accounts.

All the best
@dalz

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

Rank	Account	Total	Author	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	191,641	0	191,641
2	null	67,295	0	67,295
3	poshtoken	33,672	31,974	1,698
4	nomnomnomnom	20,759	0	20,759
5	commentrewarder	11,019	36	10,983
6	reward.app	8,463	0	8,463
7	cryptoandcoffee	6,952	6,950	3
8	worldmappin	5,442	5,411	31
9	acidyo	4,732	4,701	31
10	tarazkp	4,113	4,107	6
11	threespeakfund	3,797	0	3,797
12	oflyhigh	3,679	3,674	5
13	erikah	3,621	3,597	24
14	cutehive.com	3,420	2,007	1,413
15	avdesing	3,404	3,249	155
16	bozz	3,217	3,203	13
17	gooddream	2,749	2,599	150
18	claudio83	2,718	2,698	19
19	tattoodjay	2,681	2,646	35
20	wiseagent	2,641	2,641	0
21	louis88	2,496	2,230	266
22	papilloncharity	2,453	2,406	47
23	ecency	2,390	2,339	51
24	solominer	2,389	2,376	13
25	meno	2,377	2,229	148
26	gungunkrishu	2,322	2,306	16
27	hanshotfirst	2,277	2,276	2
28	jesuslnrs	2,253	2,147	107
29	galenkp	2,155	2,150	5
30	ramisey	2,123	2,079	43
31	bhattg	2,112	1,991	120
32	jlinaresp	2,059	2,049	10
33	daveks	2,055	2,031	24
34	sports.guy55	2,053	2,049	4
35	pranavinaction	2,043	2,043	0
36	r1s2g3	2,036	2,032	4
37	davidke20	2,029	1,846	183
38	ladytruckview	2,002	1,960	42
39	bxt	1,992	1,992	0
40	belkyscabrera	1,972	1,972	0
41	riyat	1,934	1,934	0
42	fermionico	1,895	1,852	43
43	samostically	1,882	1,869	13
44	demotruk	1,882	1,870	12
45	mango-juice	1,868	1,861	7
46	josediccus	1,853	1,828	25
47	revisesociology	1,846	1,843	3
48	steemychicken1	1,808	1,808	0
49	yolimarag	1,790	1,790	1
50	monochromes	1,789	1,746	43
51	noemilunastorta	1,785	1,785	0
52	detlev	1,785	1,780	4
53	dalz	1,777	1,753	24
54	curamax	1,774	1,774	0
55	ruffatotmeee	1,761	1,759	2
56	omarcitorojas	1,755	1,755	0
57	taniagonzalez	1,740	1,730	10
58	asgharali	1,738	1,738	0
59	leofinance	1,683	25	1,657
60	rivalhw	1,666	1,666	0
61	jychbetter	1,630	1,630	0
62	rlathulerie	1,615	1,590	25
63	cetb2008	1,569	1,569	0
64	equipodelta	1,554	1,550	4
65	kristal24	1,535	1,535	0
66	nurfay	1,529	1,528	1
67	silviabeneforti	1,528	1,528	0
68	leannwithdoublen	1,507	1,507	0
69	antonydossantos	1,489	1,489	0
70	jcrodriguez	1,472	1,469	3
71	eugelys	1,469	1,415	53
72	x-rain	1,465	1,447	17
73	riverflows	1,456	1,456	0
74	lauramica	1,445	1,440	5
75	nainaztengra	1,431	1,431	0
76	inber	1,427	1,427	0
77	netflixr	1,413	1,413	0
78	new.things	1,409	1,403	6
79	marpa	1,399	1,397	2
80	bulliontools	1,397	1,397	0
81	cohlson	1,397	1,397	0
82	irenenavarroart	1,387	1,339	49
83	ph1102	1,373	1,179	195
84	untilwelearn	1,368	1,368	0
85	michupa	1,366	1,366	0
86	alexa.art	1,362	1,361	1
87	thebighigg	1,350	1,350	1
88	vikisecrets	1,350	1,350	0
89	whosee	1,345	1,345	0
90	bala41288	1,344	1,344	0
91	yessi08	1,341	1,341	0
92	virgilio07	1,339	1,339	0
93	cielitorojo	1,325	1,325	0
94	friendlymoose	1,305	1,223	82
95	mrspointm	1,300	1,300	0
96	aubryd	1,297	1,297	0
97	sagarkothari88	1,275	1,064	211
98	davidpena21	1,262	1,262	0
99	vesytz	1,261	1,255	6
100	katerinaramm	1,261	1,037	224

Comments

[youngezeblinzz]

The earnings chart says a lot about where Hive is investing its future. This is really nice. 👍

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[airhawk-project]

seems abit centralised in my opinion