API Nodes

Oct 17, 2026• thecrazygm

PR #141: Letting Hive-Engine Lite Nodes Catch Up Before Cleaning House

In my last update, I broke down the Knobs A, B, and C changes and teased what was coming next

Oct 15, 2026• mahdiyari

Witness update - 2026 October 15

The plan is to update my HAF nodes one by one to 1.28.8 and that probably is going to take at least a week

Sep 24, 2026• thecrazygm

Recap of the Useful Knobs for Hive-Engine Nodes

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been chipping away at a series of performance tweaks and operator controls for the Hive-Engine node

Sep 17, 2026• thecrazygm

Helping Hive Engine Nodes Catch Up Without Getting Too Clever

I have been working through the next small performance bundle for the Hive-Engine node, and this one is about the part of the node that fetches Hive blocks

Aug 25, 2026• thecrazygm

Making Hive-Engine Nodes Do Less Waiting

I have been continuing the small, careful performance work on the Hive-Engine node

Aug 8, 2026• thecrazygm

PR #138 - A Couple of Useful Knobs for Hive-Engine Nodes

I have been spending some time in the Hive-Engine node codebase, looking at a larger list of possible performance and lite-node improvements

Jul 19, 2026• thecrazygm

Playing Traffic Cop, Part Two: When the Cop Pulls Over Everybody

A little follow-up to my original Playing Traffic Cop - Limiting the bandwith Hive-Engine can use post

Jul 18, 2026• gtg

How to lose all your peers in one block (a witness update)

This is my weekly monthly regularly scheduled irregular one

Jul 10, 2026• thecrazygm

A Good Week for Small Hive-Engine Fixes

I had two Hive-Engine related PRs accepted

Jul 5, 2026• thecrazygm

An Accidental Stress Test for Hive-Engine Data Integrity

I ended up running a brutal, unplanned stress test on my new Hive-Engine data integrity branch this morning

Jul 1, 2026• thecrazygm

Fixing Data Integrity Issues in Hive-Engine Nodes

I have been digging into a class of problem that is deeply frustrating from an my experience: data loss and corruption after power outages or hard resets

May 19, 2026• serpent7776

Hive-index now shows dapps activity

Dedicated dapps activity page for hive-index

May 8, 2026• serpent7776

Hive-index now has a combined all operations chart

Combined chart showing activity of all visible operations

Apr 28, 2026• serpent7776

hive-index trend

hive-index has now trend indicator that helps you quickly see whether the operation is getting more popular or not

Apr 27, 2026• thecrazygm

The Hive-Engine Failover Fix Is in Main

The Hive-Engine failover fix I have been testing is now merged into main

Apr 22, 2026• mahdiyari

Witness update - 4/22

I’ve been away for a while due to real-life complications, but I’ve been able to keep an eye on the services I maintain

Apr 14, 2026• serpent7776

hive-index now shows last 30 days activity

With hive-index you can see not only the total number of operation counts, but also the last 30 days dynamics of each operation

Apr 13, 2026• thecrazygm

The Hive-Engine Failover PR is Live After a Week of Successful Testing

In my previous post, I talked about why Hive-Engine nodes sometimes "limp along" instead of failing over cleanly when a primary RPC goes bad

Apr 2, 2026• thecrazygm

Minimal Hive-Engine Failover Fix Branch, Looking Better Under Live Testing

I wanted to write this while the work is still in motion instead of waiting until everything is polished and then pretending the path from problem to fix was cleaner than it really was

Mar 30, 2026• thecrazygm

Hive-Engine RPC Failover Is Not Rolling Over Cleanly, Here Are the Two Fix Paths I’d Pitch

Lately I have been digging into a streamer issue on the Hive-Engine node that I think a lot of operators have probably felt, even if they did not immediately know where the problem lived

Mar 24, 2026• serpent7776

Hive-index now shows operations stats

Hive-index page showing Hive operations type live stats

Mar 19, 2026• asgarth

A cleaner foundation for Hive Node Beacon

A more modern and developer friendly Hive Node Beacon for the Hive ecosystem

Mar 4, 2026• serpent7776

Introducing Hive Index: A real-time custom json operations explorer for Hive

A web UI for exploring custom json operation activity on Hive

Jan 8, 2026• mrtats

Introducing Hivemoji! | An open custom emoji API for Hive!

Who does not like having custom emojis of their own?

Jan 2, 2026• thecrazygm

Restoring Hive-Engine Full-Node: How I Fought MongoDB's WiredTiger Throttle and Won

I’m upgrading my Hive Engine node from "Lite" to "Full." I have the hardware to make this trivial: a Dual Xeon Gold server boasting 80 logical cores and 64GB of RAM, backed by fast SSD storage

Dec 5, 2025• thebeedevs

Healthchecker: Smarter provider selection for Hive apps

Healthchecker is a reusable React component that helps your apps select the best node to connect to

Nov 23, 2025• thecrazygm

Playing Traffic Cop - Limiting the bandwith Hive-Engine can use

Running a Hive Engine node at home is a great way to support the ecosystem, but it comes with a hidden cost: Upload Bandwidth

Nov 12, 2025• thebeedevs

How to Bake a Raspberry PIe

Thank you again for meeting us at HiveFest

Nov 6, 2025• thecrazygm

How I rate limit my Hive-Engine Node

"joys" of a fresh reformat is rediscovering all the background noise

Aug 26, 2025• gtg

Updates. Re: branding. It’s about me and the mirror. And also HiveFest.

So, first things first: I’ve changed my avatar

Jun 9, 2025• howo

How to use postgrest with hivemind

If you haven't been following the recent development with hivemind

May 14, 2025• mahdiyari

Witness update - Public nodes update

For the past couple of months I have been busy with a Hive related project which will be announced soon

Apr 21, 2025• techcoderx

My Weekly Update (LOL)

I was going to use this title on April Fools' Day, but I ran out of time

Feb 26, 2025• themarkymark

Setup a Hive witness using the new rolling block log feature

Running a Hive witness is typically done on rented hardware due to the demanding space and reliability requirements

Nov 20, 2024• wlfreitas

How to use the Hive Blockchain API in Godot - Getting Accounts Information

To start, I have no idea where my Owner/Master Key for my @wlffreitas account is, so I'm posting through this old account

Nov 10, 2024• therealwolf

Major Hive Witness Essentials Upgrade - V2

Hivers, it’s been four years since I released the last major version of Hive Witness Essentials

Nov 4, 2024• rishi556

Removing Kansas City Node From Seed Nodes

My kansas city node is no more

Aug 12, 2024• rishi556

4 nodes right now(will be 3 soon, sad to say bye to Kansas City node, but hard to keep all the lights on, and Chicago is close enough) in the cluster keeping it alive all running under hiveseed.rishipanthee.com

Jul 17, 2024• gtg

Hive Node Setup for the Smart, the Dumb, and the Lazy.

Hardware: x86-64, 32GB RAM, 1TB fast storage (SSD / NVMe) Software: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Jul 13, 2024• rishi556

A New Hive Seed Node Appears

Chicago Hive Seed Node

Jul 7, 2024• gtg

gtg witness update

A week ago, I marked 8 years since creating my account on this chain

Jun 26, 2024• rishi556

Progress!

So I stopped by the datacenter yesterday to drop off some supplies, and I was surprised to learn that one of the servers had arrived

Apr 25, 2024• gtg

gtg witness update

Me again. Usual doing/writing balance issues

Apr 22, 2024• rishi556

Plans For Mirroring API Node Snapshot

Got more plans for mirroring the API Node Snapshots

Apr 15, 2024• sagarkothari88

2024-04-15 - Image upload with HiveAuth On Flutter WebApp

Daily updates from Hive witness @sagarkothari88 for date 2024-04-15 for different projects on Hive Blockchain

Apr 14, 2024• sagarkothari88

2024-04-14 - How to upload an image to Hive Post on Flutter Anroid/iOS App?

Daily updates from Hive witness @sagarkothari88 for date 2024-04-14 for different projects on Hive Blockchain

Apr 13, 2024• rishi556

Seed Nodes Plans

2 more seed nodes planned by the end of this year on my custer

Apr 13, 2024• sagarkothari88

2024-04-13 - How to upload an image to Hive Post?

Daily updates from Hive witness @sagarkothari88 for date 2024-04-13 for different projects on Hive Blockchain

Apr 12, 2024• actifit

New Upgraded Hive HAF API Server

We are excited to announce our new and upgraded server for running Hive API/RPC node

Apr 7, 2024• themarkymark

Monitoring Performance Metrics on your witness nodes

A couple of days ago I shared how I use Uptime Kuma monitor my witness nodes for up/down events

Apr 5, 2024• themarkymark

Remote monitor servers like your witness Nodes free!

Today I am going to share with you a cool free utility to monitor remote servers that you can even remotely host

Feb 11, 2024• ecency

How Hivesearcher works?

Hivesearcher is a search engine designed for the Hive blockchain, enabling community members to quickly and easily find the information they are looking for. It indexes all the comments and posts on the

Feb 1, 2024• sagarkothari88

All You need to know about SPKNetwork's Union Indexer Node

With this post, let's talk about unsung hero - Union Indexer Node

Jan 29, 2024• sagarkothari88

3Speak Mobile App / dApps can integrate new Acela-Core to login

With this post, I'll talk about new APIs which mobile app will be using

Jan 29, 2024• disregardfiat

Haf API Node Setup

Setting up a "full API node" has never been so easy. Let's walk through it

Nov 2, 2023• themarkymark

Monitor Witness - Know your backup witness has failed before you depend on it

If you are witness and run more than one witness node, even if you don't, you might find this handy

Sep 29, 2023• gtg

Seed nodes health, EU meetup reminder, and new wallet's first steps

If you are a witness or a service provider committed to Hive, please consider operating a public seed node

Aug 21, 2023• blocktrades

A New API for Hive

When Hive was first launched, an early topic of discussion among all of Hive’s devs was “How should we create a next generation API for Hive?”

Aug 4, 2023• mahdiyari

How to run a HAF node - 2023

It is highly recommended to setup ZFS compression with LZ4

Jul 4, 2023• mcfarhat

Tutorial: How to setup a Sting chat node

As you're probably aware, we have recently integrated Sting chat onto actifit.io's experience (check the announcement post here We find Sting chat quite useful for expanding and better interconnecting hive communities

May 17, 2023• deathwing

Announcing Drone | Leveling up Hive API Nodes and User Experience

After rigorous testing and impressive performance results, I am excited to announce the initial/early release version of Drone

Apr 22, 2023• deathwing

Drone and api.deathwing.me Upgrades! | Global API Expansion Part 3

Drone is my custom implementation of "Jussi" which is a caching, reverse proxy app used by every node operator

Apr 11, 2023• gtg

Time for updates (v1.27.4 is here)

Hello again, and as usual, later than expected

Mar 28, 2023• sagarkothari88

3Speak - Ecency integration - upload_info api with open source sample code

Hello Team Ecency, With this Video, I'll explain followings video upload with TUS thumbnail upload with TUS consume upload info API Where to find source code? Here EndPoints const studioEndPoint = "

Mar 27, 2023• balaz

Step by step guide to setup a Hive Witness node from scratch without Docker

Whenever I do a new setup and learn something new, it is my practice to write a guide and keep it as my reference. Recently I had to migrate my witness from one server to another server. This article is

Mar 13, 2023• sagarkothari88

3Speak - Creator Studio - APIs explained along with example usage

Hello Community Members, This is an unofficial update from @sagarkothari88 about 3Speak. Official updates will be provided by @threespeak 's handle. Supporting PostingKey based user sessions Following

Feb 2, 2023• mahdiyari

Announcing my public RPC node

I did set up a new public RPC node for Hive

Feb 2, 2023• freebeings

HAF Plug & Play: Delegations API

Vesting Delegations API is now live

Jan 20, 2023• peak.open

Incentives for using Hive Open Stats

Incentives for developers and content creators to utilize the open source Hive Stats project

Nov 10, 2022• deathwing

api.deathwing.me in the United States! | Global API Expansion Part 2

As you may know, a couple of weeks ago I created a DHF proposal to help fund the global expansion of api.deathwing.me both to increase overall capacity while reducing latency and improving responsiveness for Hive users

Oct 18, 2022• deathwing

Global API Node Infrastructure DHF Proposal v2 | Major API Expansion

A little over a year ago, I created a proposal to help fund a global API node infrastructure

Oct 13, 2022• emrebeyler

hived-rpc-scanner update: v0.1.1

CLI tool to check the status of Hive RPC nodes by testing certain endpoints

Oct 9, 2022• gtg

Hive HardFork 26 Jump Starter Kit

All you need to do to bring your new Hive instance up within a couple of hours, or upgrade within minutes.

Oct 9, 2022• primersion

Downtime: Upgrading to HF26

It's time for the next Hive Hardfork 26, which will probably happen on Tuesday October 11th. I will be taking my server offline for the next few hours to perform scheduled maintenance and to upgrade my

Oct 6, 2022• someguy123

The easy way to upgrade to Hardfork 26 (Hive-in-a-box)

Read this if you've got an existing Hive-in-a-box (hive-docker) installation running the current version of Hive (HF25).

Oct 6, 2022• therealwolf

Upgrading your Witness Node for HF26

HF26 is right around the corner, on the 11th of October 2022. If you're a witness, now is the time to update your node(s).

Oct 4, 2022• themarkymark

How to update your witness to hardfork 26 release canidate 4 (Updated)

Update: Release canidate 4 has been released to fix an issue with rc delegations. Post has been updated to reflect this.

Sep 18, 2022• primersion

Engine Light Node and Snapshot Update

In this post I will be giving an update on how Hive-Engine light nodes are coming along and an update on a few other small changes.

Jun 14, 2022• mahdiyari

How to build and run a hive node - witness/seed/consensus and account history nodes

A guide for building hived node on ubuntu from scratch. This guide covers witness, seed, and account history node.

Sep 4, 2021• gtg

gtg witness log

Updates once a week? I don’t think it’s possible, but I’ll keep trying.

Aug 28, 2021• gtg

gtg’s abbrs.

A low-effort post (not really) about some of the stuff that I’ve been busy with.

Jul 14, 2021• gtg

Hive Pressure #3: Catching up with the head block.

Before your node becomes fully functional, it has to reach the head block of the blockchain.

Jun 30, 2021• someguy123

[Quickstart] How to upgrade Hive-in-a-box (HIAB / hive-docker) to HF25

How to upgrade Hive-in-a-box (hive-docker) from Hive HF24 to HF25 as quickly as possible

Jan 27, 2021• emrebeyler

hived-rpc-scanner: A tool to check the status of Hive RPC nodes by testing certain endpoints.

`hived_rpc_scanner` is a CLI tool to check the status of Hive RPC nodes by testing certain endpoints.

Jan 5, 2021• blocktrades

Hive API node performance measurement

This post describes the Jussi Traffic Analyzer software that we created to measure the performance of our production Hivemind node and some of the results we’ve recently obtained from it.

Dec 29, 2020• ecency

RPC-Proxy for blockchain, opensourced

Excited to opensource our RPC Proxy code.

Dec 16, 2020• hiveio

GetBlock x Hive : Providing Hive Node Services, Presenting at HiveFest, and a HIVE Giveaway

@GetBlock is now providing Hive API node services, presenting at HiveFest, and they're having a HIVE giveaway!

Nov 27, 2020• good-karma

Hivesearcher website opensourced

Although structure of website is quite simple, we think opensourcing website just like hivesearcher hivemind plugin would allow more development contribution and transparency on how things work.

Nov 24, 2020• peakd

Hivemind API Extension, Community Curated Content and More

A new release with new tools, features and more improvements

Nov 8, 2020• rishi556

How To Set Up A Hive Witness Using HIAB At Version 1.24.4

Because @someguy123 hasn't written a post about using HIAB I decided to do it, mainly because I use it and always end up referring to discord chats on how to set it up.

Nov 6, 2020• gtg

DIY Eclipse Jump Starter Kit - Pure and Undiluted

Intended for the Hive API node operators, witnesses, and developers.

Oct 30, 2020• peakd

Announcing the Hive Node Beacon project

Releasing Hive Node Beacon, main features and future plans.

Sep 29, 2020• reazuliqbal

Open sourcing BeeChat Client And Developer Documentation

Sep 10, 2020• good-karma

Hivesearcher - free, integrate it into your Hive apps

Aug 23, 2020• gtg

Witness Update: Release Candidate for Eclipse is out.

Nearly two months ago, the first version of Eclipse code was released. It was tagged as v1.0.0 You can read more about it in my previous witness update.