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Ship a Hive app with the chain's economics built in.

Start with a community. Prove the value before you ship. Make Hive the rail your product runs on.

Run the process See Hive sectors

Discover the primitives

Five primitives that change what your product inherits from day one.

Read what each one gives your product on day one.

  1. hub

    Reliable

  2. primitive

    Fast

  3. primitive

    Trust

  4. primitive

    Scale

  5. primitive

    Open

Run the project

Four steps from a community insight to a Hive app.

Pick the community. Build with it. Plug the app into the economy. Stay in the loop.

  1. 01

    Ideate, then validate

    Pick the community. Name the missing value. Run the brief past five of them.

  2. 02

    Build

    Ship the smallest version the community can react to. Rebuild in the same week.

    Open the build pack
  3. 03

    Wire the economy

    Pick the primitives that match the value. Wire them in before you launch.

  4. 04

    Participate

    Stay in the loop once the app is live. Vote, curate, reward — the same way your users do.

Pick your sector

Four sectors where Hive's primitives remove the hard part.

Match the sector to the idea. Read what Hive removes from each one.

  • Games

    Mature

    No per-action fee on every match, trade, and reward. Game economies stop having to push their loops off-chain to survive, and become a real participant in the network.

    Hive primitive: account-as-identity + tokens — players own their items and balances as part of their Hive account, with no separate wallet or inventory.

  • Social apps

    Active

    The user arrives with their graph. A new social surface does not have to bootstrap reputation or rebuild follows, and collapses the cold-start problem most products spend their first year fighting.

    Hive primitive: content-as-state — posts are durable, signed, and portable across frontends, so any dapp can read what the user has already published.

  • Decentralised economy apps

    Growing

    Tokens, transfers, curation, and rewards are primitives the chain already ships. An economy on Hive is not an overlay on a fiat flow; it is a direct participant in the network's economic layer.

    Hive primitive: tokens + transfers + reward pool — Hive tokens are first-class accounts, and transfers, staking, and curation rewards settle without a per-tx fee.

  • Data CMS & on-chain databases

    Emerging

    A typed-JSON layer you do not have to host. `custom_json` operations persist signed, queryable data against any Hive account, and the data travels with the user.

    Hive primitive: `custom_json` operation — up to ~8KB of typed JSON per write, signed by the posting key, scoped by `app_id` and an arbitrary `key`.

Bring the idea. We will help you ship the smallest honest version.

Bring the brief. Run it past the community. Ship what survives.

Open the build pack