Personal Progress Update @ Q1 2026 - Hive Power Crossed 11,000!

It's time for another quarterly stocktake of my blogging adventures on Hive. Cool thumbnail, isn't it? It's done by the talented @mightpossibly!

As a quick introduction, I made my first post on 29 Sep 2021 and it was an introductory post about my Splinterlands journey. Since then, it has been around 4 years and I have been actively posting and curating on Hive. Time flies indeed!

And I just want to say how grateful I am to be making friends within this community and receiving so much support, be it in the form of upvotes, comments, or even sharing of new knowledge.

So here's what I have been busy with over the past 3 months:

• Splinterlands: I have continued with my Splinterlands-related postings, even though they had stopped curating.
• World Map Pin: As planned, I have done quite a number of travel posts under Worldmappin (used to be Pinmapple) and it was really nice to see that they were very well liked! I am currently posting about the UK adventures so feel free to check them out!
• Introvert Talks: Introvert Talks was a personal series that I decided to start in 2025. It was a little corner to express my thoughts, to talk about anything that was on my mind. As the writing went on week by week, I found it quite therapeutic actually, because writing sometimes can be a way to release stress and it also helps to clear and organise my thoughts about stuff.
• Weekend Experiences: This was something I discovered in 2022 during my random browsing of the Hive posts, and has now become one of my weekend posts. I really enjoyed challenging myself to come up with something interesting to share for the weekly prompts and I enjoyed reading other sharings within the community to.

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Here's my top 3 posts for this quarter. Last time, most of the top 3 posts, if not all, would be Splinterlands-related. And now, most of the top posts are actually travel-related posts on World Map Pin! Hehe! Big shoutout to the World Map Pin team and thanks again to everyone who has showed your support by upvoting my posts.

Of course, as you can see my profile, such rewards are the exception and most of my posts are single digits. Haha.

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Now onto the financial aspects of my blogging experience, here's what I have accumulated so far as of 1 Apr 2026 (at time of writing).

Hive Wallet

In terms of numbers, compared to the previous quarter, I have accumulated a record 1,426 more HP in my Hive Wallet! This was mainly due to the change of post rewards from 50% HP and 50% HBD to 50% HP and 50% Hive. And correspondingly, for the first time, my HBD saw a decrease because of the lack of HBD rewards and the outflow via the Coffee Fund (more elaboration below).

Considering I was not as active as some previous quarters, this was good progress. In fact this is my best quarter in terms of HP accumulation, but of course, I think it's largely due to the low Hive price. Not too sure how the calculations work behind the scenes, but that's my guess. Of course, others factors contributed to this result well.

• One is getting more votes for my posts, which is partly due to the luck and partly due to my effort. During this lull season, many people have given out and the ones that are still around continue to reap the benefits. Not forgetting the big payouts from some of the World Map Pin posts.
• Two, as the base grows bigger, my curation rewards also grow in tandem. I continue to manually curate on a daily basis whenever I can.
• Third, I have also traded/converted some Layer 2 tokens into Hive this quarter and this contributed an additional 523 Hive, including the 50% liquid Hive from rewards.
• Finally, the base HP also increases at about 3% yield and having a bigger base means a bigger gain too!

All in all, my Hive Wallet has decreased from USD 3,067 in the last quarter to USD 2,485 currently. In terms of USD, the value has fallen because the price of Hive have fallen. It is always heartening to see that my account has continued to grow (or sometimes, I call it "snowball") in terms of Hive and HBD, thanks to passive returns, be it from delegation of HP, delegation of RC, or just the 3% APR for Hive and 14% APR for HBD. That said, nothing has changed for me, it's still business as usual.

P.S. For those who are very sharp, you would notice the Hive and HBD values don't tally with my Hive Wallet. That's because there are some adjustments made to account for some separate projects which I am involved in. With the adjustments, it then makes a meaningful apple to apple comparison across quarters.

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Coffee Fund

In 2022, I decided to formalise this process as my personal funding for my Coffee Fund! As to why it's called the Coffee Fund, it's because I am going to use the money to buy myself coffee while I write my posts or think of writing ideas at the cafe. Hehe!

For background, this was what I formalised:

The topic of profit-taking has been in my mind to reward myself and I have been spending some thought on how to do it in a sustainable way, as I still want to be heavily involved in the Hive community. So after exploring various options, I have decided to withdraw only my HBD interest as "profits" on a quarterly basis. Since HBD is going at 20% APR, it would be around 5% of my HBD each quarter.

Since then, HBD APR saw a dip to 15% in 2024 Q3 and more recently another dip to 14% in 2026 Q1. As usual, I pondered for some time if I should maintain 20% APR (5% of HBD per quarter) or reduce accordingly to peg to the prevailing APR.

For this quarter, and going forward, the lack of HBD rewards also posed a challenge to the sustainability of the Coffee Fund payout if I were to maintain my profit taking at 20% APR. And after much consideration, I would like to think that this situation could be short term, and while my HBD stash would see a decline for a few quarters, these are extraordinary times and hopefully, we should be able to ride out the storm soon, at least before my HBD gets depleted.

As such, for this quarter, it worked out to be 102 HBD. Pretty decent.

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So that's all I have!

As always, thanks for reading and have a pleasant day ahead! See you in the 2026 Q2 update! Let's see what the price of Hive will be by then! :P