Top Hive Earners in 2024 | A Yearly Report | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest

Happy new year Hivers! 2024 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 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 attract for them.

@oflyhigh is the top earning Hive author for 2024 with more than 45k HIVE equivalent earned in 2024. @taskmaster4450le is on the second spot with 32k, followed by @cryptoandcoffee.

There are around 15k accounts that have received at least one HIVE as reward in 2024. The median payout is 23 HIVE, while the average is 500.

Top Curators

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

@appreciator is on the top here with 1M HIVE, followed by @alpha with 750k and then @blocktrades with close to 700k.

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 the same amount of HIVE (HP), around 145k HP per year.

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 30 accounts received funding in 2024.

The @valueplan account is on the top here with 1.35M HBD received in 2024, followed by @splinterlands with 365k and @keychain with 218k HBD. A few more accounts with more than 100k HBD earned in 2024 from the DHF. A total of 3.3M HBD was paid out to DHF workers in 2024.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, 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 318k HBD interest earned in 2024, followed by @newsflash with 74k HBD and @alpha.

Top Earners Cumulative

From the data above we can compile the payout for a single ranking on overall top earners on the Hive blockchain in 2024.

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 account is on the top for 2024 with 5M HIVE equivalent earned, followed by @splinterlands and @lazy-panda.

In the top earners for 2024 most of the accounts are DHF workers and curation accounts on the top, with some HBD interest accounts as well.

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 rewards	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	2,979,632	0	2,979,632
2	null	528,684	0	528,684
3	reward.app	132,732	0	132,732
4	spk.beneficiary	57,665	0	57,665
5	oflyhigh	45,370	45,365	5
6	taskmaster4450le	32,875	11,817	21,059
7	cryptoandcoffee	32,829	32,829	0
8	kkarenmp	29,167	29,152	15
9	tarazkp	28,203	28,195	9
10	trumpman	26,331	26,233	98
11	distriator.bene	24,483	0	24,483
12	leofinance	22,897	1,121	21,776
13	alokkumar121	21,683	21,155	528
14	papilloncharity	20,896	20,450	446
15	edicted	20,116	20,116	1
16	steemychicken1	20,115	20,052	63
17	bozz	19,659	19,629	30
18	mango-juice	19,477	19,477	0
19	galenkp	19,200	19,186	14
20	lordbutterfly	19,184	19,162	22
21	liketu	18,843	4	18,839
22	castleberry	18,831	1,328	17,503
23	verbal-d	18,072	18,066	6
24	dalz	17,864	17,317	547
25	mcsamm	17,835	17,815	19
26	poshtoken	17,791	10,310	7,481
27	revisesociology	17,646	17,643	2
28	daveks	17,504	17,456	48
29	erikah	17,339	16,628	711
30	libertycrypto27	17,255	17,063	192
31	lauramica	17,074	14,991	2,083
32	tattoodjay	16,455	16,361	94
33	curamax	16,430	16,418	12
34	mipiano	16,409	15,434	975
35	anggreklestari	16,286	13,026	3,260
36	detlev	16,147	16,122	25
37	khaleelkazi	15,926	15,866	60
38	silversaver888	15,642	15,291	351
39	irenenavarroart	15,551	15,536	16
40	macchiata	14,996	9,207	5,788
41	slobberchops	14,443	14,419	24
42	riverflows	14,308	14,297	11
43	solominer	14,257	14,209	48
44	gooddream	14,098	13,459	640
45	collinz	13,973	13,950	23
46	acesontop	13,928	13,886	42
47	bitcoinflood	13,779	13,779	0
48	zing.fund	13,713	0	13,713
49	danielcarrerag	13,557	13,433	124
50	omarcitorojas	13,552	13,391	161
51	bala41288	13,541	13,541	0
52	alexa.art	13,426	13,409	17
53	bhattg	12,829	11,943	886
54	yolimarag	12,804	11,235	1,569
55	mrspointm	12,799	12,757	42
56	dbooster	12,694	12,635	59
57	ifarmgirl	12,611	12,561	50
58	claudio83	12,581	12,568	13
59	sagarkothari88	12,537	7,122	5,414
60	worldmappin	12,393	12,383	9
61	bxt	12,255	12,255	0
62	acidyo	12,225	11,503	722
63	ramisey	11,901	11,456	445
64	josehany	11,786	11,744	42
65	josediccus	11,670	11,668	2
66	rivalhw	11,556	11,556	0
67	jlinaresp	11,356	11,235	120
68	manujune	11,192	9,028	2,164
69	steemflow	11,159	11,064	95
70	silviared945	10,923	10,909	14
71	vikisecrets	10,910	10,909	1
72	sports.guy55	10,908	10,906	2
73	lucianav	10,905	10,891	14
74	atyh	10,831	10,647	184
75	elizabeths14	10,803	8,522	2,281
76	jychbetter	10,773	10,521	251
77	pravesh0	10,674	6,719	3,955
78	michupa	10,635	10,601	33
79	honeydue	10,506	9,646	859
80	hallmann	10,424	10,387	37
81	actifit.pay	10,393	0	10,393
82	flemingfarm	10,331	10,329	2
83	incublus	10,288	9,985	303
84	nainaztengra	10,268	10,245	24
85	nathyortiz	10,261	10,260	0
86	taskmaster4450	10,182	9,947	235
87	ewkaw	10,103	9,350	753
88	deanliu	10,055	10,031	24
89	torem-di-torem	10,027	10,027	0
90	moeenali	9,962	9,962	0
91	dwayne16	9,911	9,910	1
92	yulilemus	9,837	9,837	0
93	underlock	9,813	9,811	2
94	geekgirl	9,787	9,780	7
95	sugarelys	9,759	9,757	3
96	commentrewarder	9,696	185	9,511
97	cetb2008	9,668	9,667	1
98	zullyscott	9,529	9,417	112
99	kristal24	9,394	9,394	0
100	onyfest	9,393	9,368	25