How many active accounts does the Hive blockchain have in 2025? What are they doing on chain, posting, gaming, transferring funds?
The Hive blockchains has around **2.56M**. What percentage of these accounts are active?
How has the market influenced the number of active accounts?

Let’s take a look!


 


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## Top Four Hive Operations
We will be looking at the activity on the chain by the top operations made:
-	Post and comment
-	Votes/Curate
-	Transfer coins
-	Custom JSON transactions

Apart from the above, *reading*, or page views, is also a crucial part of this ecosystem, but this type of operation is not stored on the blockchain. 

We will be looking at the number of active accounts by the operations stated above for the 2020 – 2024 period. 
We will be looking at the number of DAUs (daily active users), the number of MAUs (monthly active users), and then summary for the whole year.

## Daily Number of Active Accounts 

First let’s take a look at the number of accounts active per day. Here is the chart.

 


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The above is the chart for DAUs, for accounts making any type of operation. 
This chart is from the Hive creation fork, back from March 2020. As we can see at first in 2020 the number of DAUs was low with around 15k to 20k accounts making any type of operation on the Hive blockchain daily. 

Then in the summer of 2021 this number increased significantly driven by the success of Splinterlands. At one point the DAUS reached 500k per day. 
After the craze of 2021 the number of DAUs dropped and we are now at **24K** DAUs.


Most of these movements are due to Splinterlands active players.


### Active Accounts by Category
What type of operations are these accounts making?
From previous analysis we know that most of the DAUs are coming from Splinterlands. If we take a look at a chart with active accounts per operation, we got this:

 


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The top line are the accounts making **custom JSON** operations, that in most cases are gaming/Splinterlands operations. The number of these accounts have been much higher then the rest of the operations that we can barely see them on the bottom of the chart. Although we can notice that they have declined significantly. 

**If we zoom in 2024-2025 we get this**:

 


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This is a period where we have more stable numbers. We can see that the custom JSON accounts are now close to the voting/curating accounts both with around **13k** daily. The number of accounts posting daily is around **3.3k** and accounts making transfers around **1.6k**.


**Active Accounts Posting or Commenting**
If we focus only on the core activity so to speak, the chart for accounts making post or comments looks like this:

 


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We can notice the uptrend until January 2022, and then a steady downtrend since then. 
In the recent period we can see a small growth in the number of posting accounts, from bellow 3k up to**3.3k** DAUs where we are now. 



## Monthly Number of Active Accounts 

The monthly numbers might give a better perspective for active accounts, as not all the users are making operations daily. Here is the chart.


 



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We can see the sharp increase in the MAUs back in 2021. From around 50k to more than 700k in a few months. After the peak at the end of 2021, the number of MAUs has steadily been going down.
The lows were in the summer of 2024, then a growth toward the end of the year. 

Again these strong oscillations are driven from the Splinterlands activity. 

**When we zoom in 2024-2025 for MAUs we get this:**

 


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More stable data here.
We can notice that back in the spring of 2024 the numbers were close to 200k, then a drop in the summer of 2024 and in September we were close to 50k. Towards the end of the year we have seen a growth up to 100k MAUs, double than the previous lows. February 2025 has seen a drop again. 

The recent movement are more price driven.


Around 400k MAUs at the beginning of 2023, while we are now at 55k. All these wild oscillations are mostly due to Splinterlands. The 50k MAUs seems where we were in 2020, so it might be the bottom. 

When we breakdown **the monthly active accounts by type of operation** we get this:

 


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As for the DAUs, we can see that the custom JSON operations dominate this chart as well. 
Back in 2021 there were 700k accounts making custom json operations while now we are in the range of 50k to 100k. 


## Active Hive Accounts by Category

For the last 30 days, the number of MAUs, summarized by categories looks like this. 


 


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Number of active accounts in October 2024 by operation:
-	Custom JSON - 31k
-	Votes – 17k
-	Transfers – 10.8k
-	Post and Comments – 10.5k

Gaming is on the top, in the second spot with 16k is curation/votes, then comes transfers and posting comes at the end. 


All the best
@dalz