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Hive Creators / Labs

Notes from inside the Hive network.

Partnerships, analysis, and the prototypes we ship. Every post is a piece of the work — written in public so other builders can fork it, test it, or push back.

The archive

Field reports from inside the network.

What the liketu rebuild tells us about Web3 social in 2026.

A small Hive team just shipped a photo-first rebuild. It is the cleanest working answer yet to 'what is Web3 social for in the creator economy?'

What magi.eco teaches us about building economic-resource services on Hive.

A working cross-chain asset-management protocol on Hive. The security-and-liquidity paradox is structural, and the primitives to dissolve it ship natively.

How community-originated ideas find product-market fit: the scrobble.life subscription thesis.

Hive Subs is a bottom-up product thesis: six creator-support friction points a Hive user has already named, mapped to primitives the chain already ships. The product-market shape is rare and worth reading.

Mantequilla-Soft and the small-team pattern that ships the Hive surface area.

A walkthrough of the github.com/Mantequilla-Soft repositories, the lightweight tooling patterns that hold them together, and why this is the kind of work Labs is built to amplify.

Why low-cost infrastructure is the only way blockchain innovation survives.

A thesis on the cost structure of Web3 innovation, three primitives that make it cheap to ship, and the kind of teams that win when the floor is low.