Sportsblock — Community Transparency Report
Snapshot generated: 2026-04-16T20:36:23.874Z. All numbers pulled live from Postgres, the Hive blockchain, and Hive Engine.
From day one the deal has been simple: if you create, predict, or play — you earn. Sportsblock keeps nothing it doesn't need. Here is every number that backs that up.
Sportsblock was set up to help grow the Hive Blockchain rather than hinder it in any way and the team are all long term Hive stalwarts from back in the Steem days. We might not be on Discord saying GM to everyone but we are all active. We have the best interests of Hive at heart. We believe it we set up the systems properly in the back end then the Community can not only sustain itself without any handouts but will thrive. Sportsblock is gathering pace. What begun as long form post community is not everything but with sportsbites, predictions , live match threads with match stats in a comment container so people can interact with live matches in their own container and the popular contests . Contests are proving a great success we were taken aback by the level of detail that went into the IPL Cricket Boundary blackjack contest ran by @talesfrmthecrypt. His daily posts with the match previews was some of the best analysis of a sporting event ever to be seen on Hive. Turns out our beloved tales has pedigree and runs his own cricket website. But the posts were exactly the kind of posts we are looking for on Sportsblock. The contest just drove the content and all of a sudden we were Cricketblock for a couple of weeks with users posting up about the IPL. Over the 3 rounds we had over 100 Hive users join the contest which in this time on Hive right now is some going. We also onboarded a few external users who were interested in the IPL contests so this filled us with optimism.
With all the money grabs going on at Hive at the moment we want will be transparent with our Community so that they can trust that we are growing our Community rather than buying flat iron steaks with bearnaise sauce from their MEDALS purchases. Yes every penny will be accounted for and we run a tight ship. At least the Sportsblock user will know that if there is money spent, it will be for their best interests. But guess what , we haven't really had to spend anything yet. Who knew!! I am trying to twist @niallon11 's arm for a $6 twitter subscription for the sportsblock account but he hasn't replied to my whatsapps. Anyway here are the numbers so far.
Headline numbers
HIVE Power staked on sportsblock |
13,052 HP (effective: 13,654 HP) |
MEDALS held in community wallets (not sportsblock, not on the market) |
4,401,604 of 19,263,055 circulating |
| → of which staked long-term | 4,365,636 |
| → of which liquid | 35,968 |
| MEDALS returned to community (prizes + curation + rewards) | 49,372 |
MEDALS burned (deflationary — sits in null forever) |
1,945 |
| Tips sent between users (100% to recipient) | 1,412 across 128 tips |
1. MEDALS sales — where the HIVE goes
Every time someone buys MEDALS on the app, the trade is routed through honey-swap on the Hive Engine market. 0.5% of the HIVE side is retained as a liquidity fee to sportsblock. That HIVE is then manually powered up into HIVE Power to back the community.
Current sportsblock position on Hive
| Asset | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIVE Power (own) | 13,051.535 HP |
| HIVE Power (delegated out) | 0.000 HP |
| HIVE Power (received from users) | 602.383 HP |
| HIVE Power (effective voting weight) | 13,653.918 HP |
| Liquid HIVE | 1.086 HIVE |
| Liquid HBD | 0.001 HBD |
All 13k+ HP was accumulated by powering up HIVE received from MEDALS sales, post rewards, and curation — none of it has ever been powered down. Full on-chain history scan (7,806 ops) on sportsblock shows 12,778.648 HIVE self-powered-up across 41 separate power-ups.
Follow the money: MEDALS sales → HIVE → HIVE Power
When someone buys MEDALS on the app, the HIVE proceeds arrive at sportsblock as SWAP.HIVE (a wrapped Hive-Engine token). Those are then converted back to real HIVE via hivepegged_withdraw and powered up. The full chain is independently auditable:
| Step | Amount | Count |
|---|---|---|
SWAP.HIVE withdrawn from Hive Engine (= HIVE proceeds from MEDALS sales) |
12,693.932 HIVE | 22 withdrawals |
HIVE powered up into sportsblock HP (transfer_to_vesting) |
12,778.648 HIVE | 41 power-ups |
| Power-up ratio (HP / sales proceeds) | 100.7% |
100% of HIVE earned from MEDALS sales has been powered up. The ratio being slightly over 100% means other HIVE inflows (post-reward payouts, 5% post beneficiary HIVE, curation) have also been poured into HP rather than cashed out.
Window: 2026-02-18 → 2026-04-15. Raw data: @sportsblock" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hiveblocks.com/@sportsblock for on-chain power-ups; accounts.hive-engine.com/accountHistory?account=sportsblock&symbol=SWAP.HIVE for the SWAP.HIVE withdrawals.
2. The 5% community cut on long-form posts
Every long-form post published through Sportsblock attaches sportsblock as a 5% beneficiary on the comment_options Hive operation. That means 5% of post rewards on long-form content flow straight into the community account — not a wallet belonging to any person.
On-chain rewards received by sportsblock (from the last 7,806 ops, full history):
| Source | HIVE | HBD | VESTS |
|---|---|---|---|
comment_benefactor_reward (the 5% cut) |
73.336 | 0.075 | 122,369.428 |
author_reward (posts by sportsblock itself) |
149.321 | 0.075 | 245,352.926 |
3. Prediction & contest fees — burned, not banked
Every prediction pool takes a 10% platform cut. Every contest with a fee-funded pool takes a 10% platform cut too. In both cases that MEDALS is transferred to the null account and burned forever — it isn't income, it's deflationary pressure that benefits every MEDALS holder.
Predictions
| Markets settled | 151 (22 voided/refunded, 8 currently live/locked) |
| Total staked across all pools | 21,099 MEDALS |
| Biggest single pool | 2,015 MEDALS |
| Paid to winners (on-chain confirmed payouts) | 18,922 MEDALS across 356 winning stakes |
| Refunded on void | 1,155 MEDALS |
| Platform cut taken (10% of pools) | 2,105 MEDALS |
→ sent to null for burn |
2,025 MEDALS |
| → recycled to community reward pool | 80 MEDALS |
MEDALS confirmed in null account (all sources combined) |
1,945 MEDALS |
Contests
| Contest | Status | Prize pool | Entries | Paid out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Masters 2026 | SETTLED | 10,000 MEDALS + 200 HIVE | 20 | 10,000 MEDALS + 200 HIVE to 3 winners |
| World Cup 2026 Fantasy | REGISTRATION | 10,000 MEDALS + 500 HIVE | 0 | Pending |
4. Prize money given out
| Program | MEDALS paid | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Prediction payouts to winners | 18,922 | 356 on-chain confirmed winning payouts across 151 settled markets |
| US Masters 2026 | 10,000 + 200 HIVE | 3 winners, 20 entries |
| IPL Boundary Blackjack — Round 1 | 5,000 | 27 entries, top-3 payouts |
| IPL Boundary Blackjack — Round 2 | 5,000 | 23 entries, top-3 payouts |
| IPL Boundary Blackjack — Round 3 | 5,000 | 20 entries, top-3 payouts |
| Curator rewards (MEDALS paid to authors for team upvotes) | 5,450 | 122 curated posts |
| Total MEDALS paid out to the community | 49,372 | plus 200 HIVE on contests |
Currently live / upcoming
- World Cup 2026 Fantasy — registration — pool: 10,000 MEDALS + 500 HIVE
- Last Man Standing — Premier League 2025/26 — picking — 40 entries — pool: 5,000 MEDALS + 200 HIVE
- Higher or Lower (hol_demo_apr26) — upcoming, starts 2026-04-18 — 9 entries so far, 100 MEDALS entry fee
5. Account overview
| Account | Role | HIVE | HBD | HP | MEDALS balance | MEDALS staked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
@sportsblock" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sportsblock |
Platform — receives 5% post beneficiaries + 0.5% swap fees, pays curator rewards & staking rewards, holds HP | 1.086 | 0.001 | 13,052 | 5,203,428 | 0 |
@sp-predictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sp-predictions |
Escrow — holds in-flight prediction + contest stakes | 0.000 | 0.000 | — | 2,733 | 0 |
null |
Burn account — fees destroyed forever | — | — | — | 1,945 | — |
Where the 19,265,000 MEDALS actually are
| Where | MEDALS | % of supply |
|---|---|---|
sportsblock treasury (liquid reserves for rewards & prizes) |
5,203,428 | 27.01% |
sportsblock open sell orders on the Hive Engine market (still for sale, not yet bought) |
9,638,195 | 50.03% |
SWAP.HIVE:MEDALS liquidity pool |
15,149 | 0.08% |
sp-predictions (in-flight prediction/contest stakes) |
2,733 | 0.01% |
null (burned forever) |
1,945 | 0.01% |
| In community wallets (staked + liquid across all user accounts) | 4,401,604 | 22.85% |
| Total supply | 19,265,000 | 100.00% |
9,638,195 MEDALS (50.03% of supply) are still sitting on the Hive Engine market as open sell orders from sportsblock — those are MEDALS nobody has bought yet. Combined with the treasury, roughly 77.04% of the total supply has never left the platform.
The sportsblock treasury of 5,203,428 MEDALS is pre-minted reserves for the long-term staking-rewards programme (30k/40k/50k/60k MEDALS per week for years 1–4+), curator payouts (100 MEDALS per curated post), and prize pools for IPL BB, LMS, and future contests. It's earmarked for community payouts, not profit.
Of the 4,401,604 MEDALS in community wallets, 4,365,636 (99.2%) is staked long-term — a strong signal of holder commitment. Only ~35,968 MEDALS sit liquid in wallets.
Methodology
- Prediction payouts are the sum of
PredictionStake.payoutwherepayoutTxIdis set (i.e. the on-chain broadcast confirmed). Earlier settlements did not write rows toPredictionEscrowLedger— thePredictionStaketable is authoritative. - Prediction platform cut uses
Prediction.burnedAmountsummed acrossstatus='SETTLED'; thenullaccount balance on Hive Engine is the ultimate on-chain receipt. - Contest payouts are the sum of
ContestEntry.payoutAmountwherepayoutTxIdis set. - IPL Boundary Blackjack totals are the sum of
prize_first + prize_second + prize_thirdacross competitions withstatus='complete'. (Early rounds paid out before the per-entryprizeAwardedfield was wired up, so we use the committed prize pool per round.) - Curation numbers are from the
Curationtable (status =completed), which is only set after the MEDALS transfer broadcasts successfully on Hive Engine. - HIVE Power is computed from
vesting_shares × total_vesting_fund_hive / total_vesting_sharesusing the current dynamic global properties. - On-chain history scan covers the most recent 7,806 operations on
sportsblock(full history). - Snapshot time: 2026-04-16T20:36:23.874Z.
Anyone can verify every one of these numbers. sportsblock and sp-predictions are public Hive accounts — hiveblocks.com and tribaldex.com show the same data. Nothing is hidden.
Estimated Payout
$2.49
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