Hive Witnesses & Consensus API
The Hive blockchain's delegated-proof-of-stake consensus — the witness election — live from the public Hive RPC nodes, no key, nothing cached. Hive is secured by 20 elected witnesses plus a rotating backup, voted in by HIVE holders with their staked (vested) weight; witnesses produce the blocks, publish the HBD price feed and set the chain parameters. The Hive content reader covers accounts, posts and communities, but not the witness consensus; this opens it. Rank the witnesses by vote weight, each with its vote total converted to HIVE Power, missed block count, running node version, published HBD price feed and the chain parameters it sets. Look up a single witness by account for its votes, rank and production. And read a live network overview — the head block, the current witness producing it, witness participation over the last 128 slots, the total vesting (staking) fund and the HIVE-per-MVESTS rate. The consensus-and-governance layer for Hive wallets, witness dashboards, voters and analytics. Live from api.hive.blog and peer nodes.
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