Core Development

Oct 29, 2026• hdev

Hive Dev Proposal #3

Hdev team DHF proposal 3 for development focused on growing hive core code, apps and projects serving hive and bringing it further to the world

Oct 6, 2026• blocktrades

HAF API stack 1.28.8 release notes: changes since 1.28.6

Hive stack 1.28.8 released: Changes to hived, HAF, HAF apps and the HAF API server stack in past 6 months

Sep 8, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #84

I tried to do some sound balancing, tell me if it's better than usual :)

Aug 11, 2026• howo

Hive is now a multi client network, the forking incident I caused, and reducing my proposal to 150 HBD a day

Gopherd produced Hive's first block not made by hived. Multi client chain, the fork incident, and 150 HBD a day

Aug 4, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #83

... howo went on and on about #core ...

Jul 6, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #82

Pretty long one as @andablackwidow and @lordbutterfly went on a big question session

Jun 2, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #81

Feel free to ask in the comments if you have any questions :)

May 7, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #80

Whev can't believe it's been 80 montly meetings already, feels like yesterday when we started those

Apr 14, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #79

Hello, here's the core dev meeting of the month, I apologize we lost 5 minutes early on as there was a recording issue

Apr 10, 2026• blocktrades

Release of new HAF API stack 1.28.6 next week

It has been quite a while since I've made a post, but it doesn't mean the BlockTrades team hasn't been busy, quite the opposite

Apr 7, 2026• howo

Core development proposal year 7

I have had the pleasure of working on Hive for six incredible years, and I am grateful for the support you have all given me

Mar 3, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #78

... howo went on and on about #core ...

Feb 14, 2026• beggars

My First PR to the Hive Core Codebase: SMT Metadata, Delegated Spending and gap closing work

I've been building on Hive for years now

Jan 5, 2026• howo

Core dev meeting #77

Here is the first core dev meeting of the year :)

Dec 16, 2025• howo

November core dev update

It's been a while since I've done one of these so I figured I'd share what I've been working on

Dec 1, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #76

The biggest takeway from this meeting if you're a developer is to check out claude code: @blocktrades goes at length over it

Nov 3, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #75

Can't believe we are only 25 meetings to 100

Nov 2, 2025• blocktrades

HAF API server stack ready to be released 11/3/2025

As many of you already know, we recently released 1.28.3 of hived with the hardfork scheduled for November 19th

Oct 9, 2025• mcfarhat

In mid-2024, we embarked on an exciting journey to contribute to the development of key Hive-focused tools and projects within the HAF ecosystem, working closely with @blocktrades' core development team

Oct 7, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #74

Please let me know if you have any questions in the comments :)

Sep 9, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #73

Sorry for the late publish ! I got some file issues

Aug 24, 2025• andablackwidow

Undo session and other live mode optimizations

After unplanned health related delay here comes third article of the series about recent optimizations that started with pool allocator and followed with comment archive

Aug 18, 2025• mcfarhat

Development Updates - Hive Core Projects

It's been a while since we have provided large-scale updates (though we've shared weekly updates under swarm of swarms initiative ran by @hivetoday - thank you for including our content), So today, we are sharing some

Aug 13, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #72

Extra long meeting as we talk about a bunch of different topics and brainstorm a bunch

Aug 1, 2025• blocktrades

Improving Hive’s semantic search performance

HiveSense is a HAF app that creates semantic embeddings for Hive posts

Jul 31, 2025• andablackwidow

Comment archive - for node operators and technical

This is continuation of previous post about latest optimizations. This article is going to contain description of second optimization listed there - comment archive

Jul 23, 2025• andablackwidow

Pool allocator optimization - for node operators and technical

Recently three big ticket items from my dream list for Hive were done. This article highlights first one

Jul 8, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #71

This is more of a broad overview so you can see what topics were discussed but I heavily encourage you to listen to the thing

Jul 7, 2025• blocktrades

Updates for Hive roadmap from the BlockTrades team

As you might expect, the nearer things are on the timeline, the more "concrete" they are, and things out in the future are more speculative

Jun 2, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #70

... howo went on and on about #core ...

May 8, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #69

... howo went on and on about #core ...

May 1, 2025• blocktrades

2nd update of 2025: Hive API stack v1.27.11 officially released

Today we officially tagged the latest version of the Hive API node stack (v1.27.11)

Apr 23, 2025• howo

Core development proposal year 6

I have had the pleasure of working on Hive for five incredible years, and I am grateful for the support you have all given me

Apr 9, 2025• howo

Hive core dev meeting #68

Sorry for the poor video quality, I had internet issues

Mar 24, 2025• andablackwidow

Checkpoints (for node operators)

Checkpoint is a configuration option where you can specify id of block that has to match when node is about to process it. If block does not match given id, the node should stop

Mar 20, 2025• thebeedevs

Hive is five

Birthday needs a gift 🎁 and we, & x1F41D; thebeedevs group, prepared a few for you, to make this platform better and simplify application development

Mar 10, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #67

This is our biggest meeting to date both in terms of attendance and length so strap in

Feb 4, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #66

I've decided to stop providing transcript because my provider basically does a bad job and I think having nothing is better than something inaccurate

Jan 16, 2025• howo

Core dev meeting #65

Blocktrades started talking about stuff without warning so the recording is missing 2-3 minutes 😅 we are talking about adding a new api called get profiles for @asgarth implemented by yours truly here

Jan 13, 2025• andablackwidow

Flood protection in 1.27.7

New features in 1.27.7 protecting against flood attacks on Hive network for witnesses and node operators

Jan 8, 2025• blocktrades

1st update of 2025: Releasing API node software this week

Originally I planned to release in December, but just before the holidays kicked into full gear, I found an issue with the HAF upgrade process during my testing

Dec 14, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #64

In a terrible twist of fate I missed this core dev meeting

Nov 25, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #63

Apologies for the delay It's been a busy few weeks

Nov 21, 2024• blocktrades

10th update of 2024: API node software release in Dec, hardfork tentatively set for Q1 2025

Here’s a quick update on what the BlockTrades team has been working on since my last report

Nov 8, 2024• thebeedevs

Core services - the block log revolution is here!

It's official now, you can configure your hived node to get rid of some of the 490+ gigabytes of compressed block log burden

Oct 26, 2024• blocktrades

8th update of 2024: Work on Hive apps (User Interfaces)

As promised last week in my previous post, here’s an update on the “frontend” work we’ve been working of for the past few months

Oct 18, 2024• blocktrades

7th update of 2024: early "release notes" for Hived and HAF apps

I've been super busy for a while, so I fell behind a bit on reporting progress (it's been about 4 months since my last report...)

Oct 17, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #62

All right, so yeah, on my end, I after some discussion in Mattermost, I finally went back and finished the muted reason thing

Sep 30, 2024• mcfarhat

Development Updates - Hive Core Projects

This is another update on the work done over the last month by myself and several part-time resources that I have onboarded to learn about Hive and its technologies, and is separate from the work we do in developing &

Sep 24, 2024• felixxx

Hive As A Black Box - Operations

Dealing with ops

Sep 24, 2024• gtg

You Have No Idea! (How much development is happening on Hive Core)

Many people asked me to share a video that some of you may have seen during the core developers panel on the first day of HiveFest at Meštrović Gallery in Split (while being there or via the online stream)

Sep 12, 2024• thebeedevs

Discover projects that have been quietly enhancing your Hive experience!

Thank you for joining me on the presentation at HiveFest

Aug 29, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #61

I think you can only see some on YouTube, they have to be numbered

Aug 10, 2024• pibara

Could we make L2s RC-powered on HIVE ?

A relatively wild idea about layer-2 resource credits tax on (new) custom json operations

Jul 13, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #59 and #60

Sorry for the lack of updates on the core dev meeting, I've been travelling abroad for a few months and I forgot the file recording for the meeting 59 on my computer at home which means I couldn't upload it in time 😅

Jun 17, 2024• blocktrades

6th update of 2024: Wax release planned at end of June, hived/HAF 1.27.7 at end of July

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

May 22, 2024• blocktrades

5th update of 2024: Lite hived nodes, 2nd layer plans, and lots more

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

May 3, 2024• blocktrades

4th update of 2024: improving imagehoster performance

I’ll report on our general development work in a bit (probably next week or so), but we made some nice improvements to the imagehoster infrastructure in the past few days that I figured was worth sharing now

Apr 19, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #58

So, new month, new things.I'm still working on the Coinbase integration

Apr 15, 2024• howo

Core development proposal year 5

I have had the pleasure of working on Hive for four incredible years, and I am grateful for the support you have all given me

Apr 2, 2024• blocktrades

3rd update of 2024: HAF API stack officially released, begin scoping of next release

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

Mar 16, 2024• blocktrades

2nd update of 2024: Releasing the new HAF-based stack for Hive API nodes

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

Mar 5, 2024• thebeedevs

For those developing a Hive

This article is addressed to everyone interested in a simplified way of operating with Hive blockchain (what should allow you to drop the beekeeping suit from the picture above)

Mar 5, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #57

No transcription this time due to the length of the meeting

Feb 19, 2024• andablackwidow

Soft fork vs hard fork (technical).

This is a continuation of discussion with @edicted from comments under that article. While the article itself is not about difference between soft and hard fork, somehow that topic emerged

Feb 7, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #56

In terms of updates, I've been quite sick for the past two weeks, so it's quite lean

Jan 29, 2024• blocktrades

1st update of 2024: Change notices for HAF app developers

Changes to HAF APIs in 2024

Jan 10, 2024• howo

Core dev meeting #55

I'm just going to look through my merge requests and stuff that happened over the past month

Jan 2, 2024• howo

Core development report

I haven't done one of those in a while, usually I link to development happening in the core dev meetings

Jan 1, 2024• felixxx

Hive As A Black Box

Introduction: Hive As A Black Box

Dec 23, 2023• blocktrades

7th update of 2023: Final testing of HAF 2.0 and associated apps

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

Dec 4, 2023• andablackwidow

Fragile state - a development story (technical).

Some of you might have heard that RC will become part of consensus some time in the future. The plan is to make all necessary changes first, then leave it with no changes for one whole hardfork

Dec 4, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #54: Big one with lots of updates

Very long meeting today, we had lots of things to cover

Nov 12, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #53

On my end, finished the community type stuff

Sep 20, 2023• blocktrades

6th update of 2023: Putting finishing touches on new releases of just about everything

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

Sep 12, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #52

All right, so on my end, I am still working on communities

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 18, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #51

So on my end, thank you for the review bartek

Jul 29, 2023• blocktrades

5th update of 2023: including new apps Denser and WASM-based beekeeper, plus wax library

We’ve recently added five new programmers that were previously working on another project to our Hive team: three frontend devs, one frontend tester, and one backend dev

Jul 4, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #50

Given that we didn't have a lot to sync on last month, we decided to skip the may issue that's why there wasn't a dev meeting in may

Jul 2, 2023• blocktrades

4th update of 2023: Putting HAF apps through their paces

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

May 11, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #49 summary

It seems there was an issue with the recording hence, this is one of those "summary only" meetings

May 10, 2023• blocktrades

3rd update of 2023: Building on HAF

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

Apr 9, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #48 (with full transcript)

As usual now I've included a rough transcript

Mar 12, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #47 (with full transcript)

I am done with the development of the recurrent transfer updates, I have stumbled upon some issues on the CLI wallet parts, because basically now we have a unique id at the end so that you can specify the pair

Feb 9, 2023• blocktrades

2nd update of 2023: Moving to Ubuntu 22, binary storage for hive operations in HAF

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last report

Feb 6, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #46 (with full transcript)

I apologize for the framing + distorted sound, something went wrong with the recording

Jan 24, 2023• howo

Core dev meeting #45

Apologizes for the delay, it has been a busy week

Jan 9, 2023• howo

Recurrent transfer documentation

Recurrent transfers can be a little tricky to understand, they do not in fact work like a series of transfer operations

Jan 2, 2023• blocktrades

Hive-related software updates in past couple of months by BlockTrades team

It has been a while since my last post, but that’s just because I’ve been lazy about reporting, not because there’s not a lot going on

Nov 7, 2022• howo

Core dev meeting #42

many heart attacks of people telling me it doesn’t work when in fact it’s something they did wrong

Oct 22, 2022• hiveio

HF27 is Coming on October 24th - Some Slight Additional Evolution Needed

Quick Schedule Fix HF27 will come into effect on or after Monday, October 24th at 12:00 UTC, when consensus is reached.

Oct 9, 2022• hiveio

The Evolution of Hive: Hardfork 26

Hive is set to run a major protocol update, titled Evolution, on October 11th at 12:00 GMT.

Sep 28, 2022• blocktrades

15th update of 2022: New Hive HF26 release candidate 3 released

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Sep 7, 2022• blocktrades

14th update of 2022: Hive HF26 release candidate and mirrornet api node ready for app testing

hive hardfork 26 release candidate

Aug 3, 2022• howo

Core dev meeting #40 full steam on hf26 !

Kind of a special edition, Given that everyone is full steam on HF26, we focused solely on that.

Aug 2, 2022• blocktrades

13th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Jul 21, 2022• blocktrades

12th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Jul 6, 2022• howo

Hive core dev meeting #39

We are still trying to reach the july 2022 date, so code freeze is likely going to happen next week unless we hit an unexpected roadblock.

Jul 2, 2022• howo

The monthly core dev meeting is monday, what would you like to see brought up ?

As you guys may (or may not) know, the first monday of every month, the core dev team gets on a meeting to share progress, discuss ideas and figure out how to collaborate more efficiently.

Jun 30, 2022• blocktrades

11th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Jun 23, 2022• blocktrades

10th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below are a few highlights of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Jun 11, 2022• blocktrades

Some screenshots from new HAF-based block explorer

hive blockchain software blocktrades

Jun 6, 2022• howo

Hive core dev meeting #38

Jun 5, 2022• blocktrades

9th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Recent work on hive blockchain network software

May 16, 2022• blocktrades

8th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below are highlights of some of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

May 9, 2022• howo

Core dev meeting #37

it's best to listen to this one

May 8, 2022• blocktrades

One-Block Irreversibility for Delegated Proof-Of-Stake (DPOS)

One-block Irreversibility (OBI) is a proposed protocol change whereby a block will be considered irreversible as soon as a sufficiently large super majority of the currently scheduled block producers vote that the block in question should become the next valid block in the blockchain.

May 5, 2022• blocktrades

7th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Apr 21, 2022• blocktrades

6th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Apr 14, 2022• howo

Core dev meeting #36

A special edition where I use my camera !

Apr 7, 2022• blocktrades

5th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Mar 25, 2022• blocktrades

4th update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post.

Mar 19, 2022• arcange

Happy Forkday to the Hive Community

Today we celebrate the second year since our community decided to take their destiny into their own hands and fork Steem

Mar 15, 2022• blocktrades

3rd update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team during the past two weeks.

Mar 14, 2022• howo

Core dev meeting #35

Lots of discussions here and there, it's best for you to listen to this directly

Feb 18, 2022• blocktrades

2nd update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team during the past two weeks.

Feb 15, 2022• howo

Core dev meeting #34

I had a bunch of hivemind questions that would have been faster answered by voice.

Feb 4, 2022• blocktrades

First update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

We put a lot of effort into creating new user documentation for HAF ...

Feb 1, 2022• howo

Hive core dev meeting #33

Short meeting this time but a decent amount of updates from @howo and @blocktrades

Jan 4, 2022• howo

Hive core dev meeting #32

First meeting of 2022! Happy new year to all :)

Dec 6, 2021• howo

Hive core dev meeting #30

Quite a short meeting this time !

Dec 1, 2021• blocktrades

31st update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Nov 23, 2021• blocktrades

30th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Nov 17, 2021• blocktrades

29th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Nov 8, 2021• blocktrades

28th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Oct 29, 2021• blocktrades

27th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Oct 18, 2021• blocktrades

26th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Oct 18, 2021• howo

Hive core dev meeting #29

Listen to that one

Oct 6, 2021• blocktrades

25th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Sep 24, 2021• blocktrades

24th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Sep 16, 2021• blocktrades

23rd update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week ...

Sep 7, 2021• blocktrades

22nd update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues

Sep 6, 2021• howo

hive core dev meeting #28

It's better to listen to this one

Aug 27, 2021• blocktrades

21st update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

It’s been a while since I last posted a progress update, so I apologize for the delay.

Aug 15, 2021• howo

Hive core developer meeting #27

This meeting was pushed back a few times because most of the team was in the middle of developments or busy improving the api nodes/gitlab so there weren't much to sync on.

Aug 2, 2021• blocktrades

Reconfiguration notice for api.hive.blog API node infrastructure

As I mentioned in my last post on development progress at BlockTrades, we’ve been asking Hive-based apps to change the way they broadcast transactions.

Jul 29, 2021• blocktrades

20th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week or so:

Jul 20, 2021• blocktrades

19th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week or so:

Jul 19, 2021• howo

Hive core developer meeting #26

I fixed the api problem and now am building automated test cases.

Jul 12, 2021• howo

Core development report #12: Good progress on direct rc delegations

I usually do my reports via voice during the hive developers meeting, but due to some vacations here and there and rush with hard fork 25, we decided to postpone it a few times so I figured I'd make an update about my progress via text.

Jul 9, 2021• blocktrades

18th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team since my last report.

Jun 29, 2021• blocktrades

17th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during last week or so:

Jun 22, 2021• howo

Hive core developer meeting #25

I basically recommend that you listen to the whole thing, usually it's pretty easy to tl;dr but on this one we talk about a lot of various subjects that are basically dev/testnet sync.

Jun 20, 2021• blocktrades

16th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by BlockTrades team during the last week or so:

Jun 19, 2021• hiveio

Hive Hardfork 25 is on the Way: Hive to reach Equilibrium on June 30th, 2021

Earlier this week we notified cryptocurrency exchanges that the upcoming hardfork to the Hive blockchain network, dubbed Equilibrium, is planned for the end of June.

Jun 10, 2021• blocktrades

15th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Work by the BlockTrades team slowed a little in the last period, as much of our staff was off for Corpus Christi holiday, and in the past two days there was a company-sponsored recreational trip to the mountains (and today many people are probably recovering from that).

Jun 2, 2021• blocktrades

14th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team during the last week:

May 25, 2021• blocktrades

13th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team during the last week:

May 25, 2021• howo

Hive core developer meeting #24

This meeting was very focused on the testnet and it's operation and what was needed ...

May 17, 2021• blocktrades

12th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Below is a list of Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team during the last week:

May 10, 2021• blocktrades

11th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software

Last week we’ve been focused on testing hived in preparation for a final feature freeze and fixing bugs as we find them. So far most of the bugs we’ve found are very old bugs that have been around for many years.

May 10, 2021• howo

Hive core developer meeting #23

We are finally done with all the changes and expect to code freeze and launch the final testnet by wednesday

May 5, 2021• howo

Direct RC delegations vs RC pools and tentative direct rc delegations spec

First let's settle on the terms, when I say "RC pools", it refers to the implementation where everyone can delegate to pools and then pools can delegate to users, with more notions like overdelegation (you can delegate more RC than there is available in the pool) etc, we'll get back to it later.

May 4, 2021• blocktrades