I believe this is our fifth proposal for Hive-Engine development funding, and it carries a straightforward message: **we have delivered, and we are willing to keep going.**

Our previous proposals all closed "within budget", with transparent reporting and more work completed than promised. This cycle follows the same open-ended mandate: fix what needs fixing as it comes up, keep building what the ecosystem requires, and document everything publicly along the way.

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## Achievements This Cycle

### Hive-Engine Core: The Failover Fix
We diagnosed and resolved a long-standing reliability issue in `hivesmartcontracts` where nodes failed to fail over cleanly during primary Hive RPC degradation. **PR #134 is now merged into main**, delivering:

* **Request-level failover** across the complete `streamNodes` list.
* **Scheduler-level node demotion** to temporarily pause traffic to failing endpoints.
* **Graceful shutdown** reliability improvements.
* **npm dependency audit** cleanup.

### ssc_tokens_history: Security Audit & Modernization
We conducted an audit on the legacy `ssc_tokens_history` repository, resolving **11 vulnerabilities** (including a high-severity CSRF issue in the axios chain). **PR #33** updated `sscjs`, `pg`, `axios`, and `eslint`. 

We also published a scoped modernization roadmap for the next cycle:
* Flexible single-sided timestamp filtering.
* Cursor-based pagination to replace deep `skip/limit` queries.
* Index strategy revisions based on actual account-history query patterns.
* NFT history lookup path improvements.
* Pre-intervention query telemetry.

### hive-nectar Library Upgrades
**v0.2.14** and **v1.0.0** shipped with the following improvements:
* **Dual beacon support** (Peakd + v4v), with thanks to @brianoflondon for the secondary beacon infrastructure.
* **5-minute on-disk node cache** to reduce beacon load and accelerate application startup.
* **Docker/SQLite path fixes** for containerized deployments.
* **Documentation cleanup** for both `hive-nectar` and `nectarengine`, ensuring clean API references on ReadTheDocs.

### Infrastructure & Operator Documentation
We published two critical diagnostic guides to support the Hive-Engine node community:
* **MongoDB WiredTiger Throttle Fix:** Documented the "Triple Pincer" method for parallel archive restoration on high-core-count hardware, including the `track_restore.sh` progress script.
* **MongoDB Segfault Isolation:** Traced a post-power-outage crash to a systemd environment variable (`GLIBC_TUNABLES`), documenting the exact diagnostic path and resolution.

### HiveTools and Market-Viewr
* Rebranded neo-beeswap to **Mithril Diesel Pool** with a responsive, theme-aware UI.
* Implemented dynamic OpenGraph preview images for pool links using a Pillow backend.
* Added searchable, scrollable token dropdowns to handle long lists efficiently.
* Resolved dark mode rendering bugs across all pages.
* Wired a dynamic sitemap to the Flask `url_map`.
* Fixed the timeframe filtering bug on the Market-Viewr history chart backend.


## Legendary 1 line PR

We can't forget about [our favorite submission](https://github.com/hive-engine/hivesmartcontracts/pull/135), a one-line quality of life fix for node operators:

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## Upcoming Objectives

* **Execute ssc_tokens_history Modernization:** Implement the published roadmap, prioritizing cursor pagination and index enhancements.
* **hivesmartcontracts Maintenance:** Continue to evaluate a dedicated RPC manager abstraction (so-called Option B) with the community.
* **Emergency Response Infrastructure:** Maintain ongoing, un-scoped technical support for critical failures and debugging.
* **Tooling Updates:** Provide continuous maintenance for `hive-nectar`, `nectarengine`, HiveTools, and Market-Viewr.

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## Funding Request

We expect to receive approximately **317 BEE per day** in practice at present. We are requesting the maximum cap of **547 BEE per day**, functioning as a "sweeper" proposal to utilize remaining daily budget funds after higher-priority proposals are serviced.

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All funding goes directly to support our Hive-Engine development, with work fully documented across @open.mithril and @thecrazygm posts. Previous posts in this series have been published on @ecoinstar and also @ecoinstant.  You can now see our company page at https://ecoinstats.net. 

We ask you to extend this trust for another six-month cycle, which is the pace we have been managing.  


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