With InLeo's "successful" proposal for $180,000, I wanted to do some digging into what this looks like for Hive and how much of an impact it has. Considering they have another they put in for over $460,000 for 2025, it should be interesting. I noticed in their header above, they claim to have on-boarded with around 13,417 new MAU (monthly active users).
A recent quote from a video a couple days ago. "InLeo is starting to so much activity on the blockchain is filling up all the blocks on the blockchain".
For years it has been estimated Hive has around 5,000 to 20,000 active users. While this is a wide range, it's hard to be completely accurate as most users have 5-10 accounts.
The first thing I did was look at posts/comments over the last 12 months.
While there are peaks, the overall trend is fairly constant. The start and end are pretty much at the same place. For example in January 2024 we had an average of 2,639 posts/day and 21,177 comments/day. In January 2025, we had 2,798 posts/day and 23,389 comments/day.
If you fact in a few things going on, this is actually even less impressive. As many may know, Hive has had a flood of spam in the last few months with spammers making thousand accounts and copying old posts from the blockchain from other users and reposting them. There is another significant factor, but I will cover that in a bit.
I brought this up on the post announcing the new InLeo proposal and got this response.
Ok, let's look at threads. If you are not familiar with threads, they are basically comments in daily container posts to bring Twitter like activity to Hive.
These threads numbers are largely inflated by spam and AI bots being used to pad the numbers and improve SEO.
For example, if we break down the entire chain daily comments for a 30 day period and compare it to just one user, we can see this accounts for as much as 15% of the entire blockchains activity.
This is largely due to the pattern of posting random news shit a couple hundred times a day using AI, then having another AI bot follow up each of them with 10 ai generated summary comments.
You can see the pattern here:
These ai comments can post almost 10,000 comments a day. When I was looking into this, you can see the raw data here for the amount of comments/day just from the summaries.
Similar activity could be found on the defunct @leoglossary account which spammed ai wikipedia articles with heavily keyword stuffed articles to improve SEO. This in reality actually did quote the opposite for Hive and InLeo ironically.
While we might have 10,000 more active users, it is largely a handful of users I suspect. In the last 12 months, there are 916 accounts created by leo.voter that have more than 10 comments.
Honestly, I can go on and on, what's the fucking point since the proposal is pretty much funded.
Enjoy the sell pressure I guess.