By dalz on Skatehive
Happy new year Hivers! 2025 is behind us and it’s time to take a look at the top earners for the year. Unlike the other reports that are monthly this one will be a yearly one summarizing the whole year. 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 year. 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, reward.app, null and 3Speak are excluded. I have ma