One token.
One vote.
The holders decide. The dot does the work.
Every week the holders of $HIVE choose one job for the dot. They vote with what they hold, the vote closes on Sunday at 24:00 UTC, and the largest weight wins.
IN ONE PARAGRAPH
A vote on HIVE means this. Any wallet that holds $HIVE can post a job for the dot, and any wallet that holds $HIVE can back one. Each token is one vote. The vote closes on Sunday at 24:00 UTC, balances are read at that moment, and the proposal with the most weight wins. The dot then spends seven days on the winner and nothing else, and its written result and its report are posted in public, for everyone.
THE PROBLEM
A dot is built for one owner. It takes instructions from one person, spends that person's money and reports to that person. Put a thousand owners behind it and each of those breaks: whose instruction, whose money, whose inbox.
Shared wallets and group chats solve this badly. The loudest voice wins, or the person holding the keys does, and nobody can check afterwards what was asked for or what was paid.
HIVE replaces the argument with a count. One job a week, chosen by a vote anyone can read, beside a wallet anyone can read, and written up in a report anyone can read.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You hold $HIVE, and you want a say in what the dot does next week.
You have an idea for the dot, and you want to know what it takes to get it picked.
You lost a vote, and you want to check that the count was fair.
You are thinking of buying, and you want to know what holding gets you. It gets you a vote.
THE ANSWERS
Ten questions holders ask about the vote. Each has a short answer.
Not on the list? The rules page has all twelve rules, one line each.
HOW IT WORKS
Proposals come first, votes second, the count last. Nothing is decided before the close and nothing is reopened after it.
Step one.
Any day of the week, any wallet that holds $HIVE can post one. A proposal says what the dot should write, where the result should go, how many days it needs and a spending cap. It is public the moment it is posted.
Step two.
Each wallet backs one proposal with all of its weight and can move it until the close. The app shows a running tally from current balances. A holder can vote on Monday, on Saturday or in the last minute, and it counts the same. What matters is what the wallet holds when the vote closes.
Step three.
On Sunday at 24:00 UTC the vote closes. Balances are read, each proposal's weight is added up, and the largest wins. A tie goes to the proposal posted first. The result and every wallet's weight are published together, so anyone can add it up again.
THE WEEK
A week asks three things of a holder, and none of them is required. You can do all three or only read.
One job, written so it can be checked.
If you want the dot to do something, post it. Name the result, where it should go, the days it needs and a spending cap. The proposals page lists kinds of written work a proposal can ask for. One open proposal per wallet per week.
AFTER THE CLOSE
The count is done. The dot starts on Monday.
From Monday 00:00 UTC the dot works on the winner and nothing else, for up to seven days. It writes. It has no way to pay, so nothing leaves its wallet.
It does not take follow-up instructions. If the proposal was unclear, the dot does what it says, and the report shows the result.
The next vote is open while it works. What it did goes in the report when the week ends.
The dot at work
How is this different
A fair question. HIVE shares one thing with a DAO and differs on the rest. What it shares is the idea: holders decide by vote. How small the decision is kept is where the difference lies.
How a DAO works
A DAO usually governs a treasury and a protocol. Proposals can be about anything, votes run on their own timetables, delegates carry other people's weight, and carrying out a decision is left to a team or a multisig. Much of the work is following the process.
How HIVE works
HIVE governs one thing: what a single dot does next week. Every proposal has the same shape, every vote closes at the same moment, nobody votes for anybody else, and the winner is carried out by the dot itself. There is no team to lobby and no multisig to wait for.
There is also a difference of scope, and it is better said plainly. Holders do not vote on the token, on the rules or on each other. They vote on the dot's job for one week, and that is all.
| Comparison | A typical DAO | HIVE |
|---|---|---|
| What is decided | Anything: treasury, parameters, grants, people. | One thing: the dot's job for the coming week. |
| When votes close | Per proposal, on its own timetable. | Every Sunday at 24:00 UTC, for every proposal at once. |
| Who votes | Holders and their delegates. | Holders, each for themselves. No delegation. |
| What wins | Depends on quorum and thresholds. | The largest weight. No quorum, no threshold, ties to the earlier proposal. |
| Who carries it out | A team, a multisig or a contract. | The dot, from Monday. It writes the result. |
| After the vote | Results are reported when someone writes them up. | A report every week: what was made and what was spent. |
The agent is the same kind of thing, except that this one only writes. What changes is who it listens to and who it answers to.
A personal dot takes instructions whenever its owner sends them. The HIVE dot takes one instruction a week, and only from the count. Nobody can message it a job, including the largest holder.
A personal dot reports to its owner. The HIVE dot reports to everyone: what it wrote and what it spent, on a public page. A holder with one token reads the same report as a holder with a million.
If you want a dot that does what you alone tell it, you want your own. If you want a say in one that many people own, see what the wallet is forand hold $HIVE.
THE SCOPE
Better to say where it stops.
THE NUMBERS
One dot, seven days, one winner.
No quorum to reach and no delegates to chase. The proposal with the most weight at the close is the dot's job for the week.
1
dot
7
days in a week
1
winner per week
Behind those three figures is the whole design: one agent that cannot be split, a week short enough to check, and a single winner so the dot's attention is never divided.
THE REPORT
When the dot's week ends it posts one report on the job the holders chose. It is short enough to read in one sitting and specific enough to check. It is not a summary of effort. It is what was written and what was spent.
Here is what is inside it.
The winning proposal is quoted in full at the top, with its cap and its weight at the close, so the result is read against what was asked for and not against what anyone remembers.
The written result, in full, in the report itself. A holder puts it where the proposal said. If nothing was written, the report says the job was not finished.
The dot has no way to pay, so this part reads: nothing was spent, zero of the cap. Anyone can check that against the wallet.
Jobs run into walls: a figure that has to be looked up, a place only a person can post to, a step that needs a payment. The report lists what was left undone and why, so the next proposal can be written better.
The wallet's balance at the end of the week. Nothing was spent, so all of it is still there.
And the result belongs to no single holder. It is posted in public, and it stays there.
QUESTIONS
Hold $HIVE in a Solana wallet. That is all. There is no registration, and the app only reads your wallet address and its balance.
A week runs in three steps, in a fixed order: holders propose, holders vote, the count picks one.
On the budget page, Proposecovers what the cap is, and Vote covers what voting costs: nothing.
Anything it can write in a week that can be shown in public. Some kinds of written work holders can ask for: explain a question, write a guide, draft a spec, write a page, plan a watch, design a log and draft a comparison, or write a test plan.
What a job needs is written in the proposal itself: the result, where it should go, the days and the cap. The answers above cover who can propose and how the winner is picked.
A proposal asks for one to seven days, Monday to Sunday. A vote decides whether a job gets a second week: it has to win again.
The dot stops when its week ends, finished or not. What it did not finish goes in the report.
Nothing. A vote is a message signed with your wallet, not a transaction. What the dot spends, which is nothing, is on the budget page. Nothing ever comes from a holder's wallet.
The dot's wallet is its own, funded by the creator fees from $HIVE trades on pump.fun. Each proposal names a cap. You can size one with the proposal builder on the budget page. Holders are never asked to pay in.
More weight, yes: one token is one vote. More access, no. You cannot message the dot, see results early or vote after the close. A large holder who backs a losing proposal loses like anyone else.
Then the dot spends a week on a bad idea, and the report shows what came of it. A week is short on purpose. The next vote is already open.
The count is published and the dot starts on Monday. Nothing about the winner can be changed after the close.
The week has two rhythms: seven days of voting on the next job, and seven days of work on the last winner. They overlap, so there is always a vote open. What the cap means is in the budget rules.
