I have been interested in seeing the Hive HP distribution among Splinterlands players for a while. However, I can only get top 200 staked SPS holders from public sources. Soon that is going to be changing as I am told, and the Splinterlands team is going to change the API call from top 200 richlist to top 1000 richlist. Thanks to @cryptomancer, he manually extracted the top 1000 richlist for me yesterday. Now that we have beebalanced, we can extract any data if we have a list (please don't use a long list randomly, and the page will crash).
https://beebalanced.streamlit.app/
So below is the plot of top 1000 hive stakeholders and their hive holding as of today. Just a few min ago @psilence mentioned (sorry bud, I didn't mean to put you on the spot, but you can use some publicity)
If there is no need to hold HIVE, I can see why many SPL players wouldn't [hold hive]
Well the plot above certainly shows that. So Psilence's observation is correct. But my point is that his statement, and most players's action comes from a place of ignorance. Here is a good post and data describing that.
@seattlea/why-splinterlands-players-should-be-more-involved-in-hive-blockchain
Here @seattlea shows data. He projects that he currently earns about $711/yr (projected at current rate) playing splinterlands for his $8000 invested (marked to market, current value). By the way, I really like his 'marked to market' approach! However, his hive earnings are $2,405.28. He holds 6751 HP which has an estimated value of $3,268.63 (currently). However, hive doesn't really have any requirement to hold HP, but holding HP shows your commitment to the chain and support.
Now tell me @psilence; who is stupid?
Back to the plots
Alright I digress! Enough of that. Let us get back to the plots. I know that plot with X-axis in linear scale is depressing! Okay okay, let me change it log-scale!
Alright, both axes are in log scale now, and you can see the names clearly. If you think you have more than 130,039 staked SPS, you can ask me, and if I find time, I can highlight you account.
Yeah currently 130,039 is the base of top 1000 stake SPS. Also top 1000 holds 741,153,670 SPS. Here are the 'big-dogs' of SPS, they hold 27% of 'meaningful stake' together.
Last September 2024 I wrote this post. Over on that post linked before, there was this data.
84 accounts hold HP >10,000 Hive
215 accounts hold HP >1000 Hive
505 accounts hold HP >100 Hive
731 accounts hold HP >10 Hive
817 accounts hold HP >1 Hive
Today we can look at this data again.
| Accounts Holding HP | Sep 08, 2024 | Jan 31, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| >10,000 | 84 | 78 |
| >1000 | 215 | 205 |
| >100 | 505 | 490 |
| >10 | 731 | 721 |
| >1 | 817 | 796 |
Are we doing better with time? No. But the decline is slight within each classes. Also classes are log-scale, which is perhaps too broad. When I find more time I will look into this in more detail.
