Clive Updates - witness update operations available in the CLI
Published on HivePostify by @thebeedevs · Tue Oct 28 2025
The new feature introduced in this release is not for everyone, it is for witnesses. The new command allows them to set witness properties such as the account creation fee, maximum block size, HBD interest rate, HBD exchange rate, URL as well as to change a signing (witness) key. The operation can be signed using either the active or the signing key.
Witness operations There are the following witness operations on Hive: witnesssetpropertiesoperation - the newest of them all, a witness can use it to set all properties. The operation must be signed using a witness (signing) key. witnessupdateoperation - an older operation that allows setting witness properties. The operation must be signed using an active authority. feedpublishoperation- also an older operation, it allows setting only the HBD exchange rate. The operation must be signed using an active authority.
| | Witness set properties operation | Witness update operation | Feed publish operation | |--------|--------|--------|--------| | Accountcreationfee | Yes | Yes | No | | Accountsubsidybudget | Yes | No | No | | Accountsubsidydecay | Yes | No | No | | Maximumblocksize | Yes | Yes | No | | Hbdinterestrate | Yes | Yes | No | | Hbdexchangerate | Yes | No | Yes | | Url | Yes | Yes | No | | Newsigningkey | Yes | Yes | No |
CLI - new command update-witness A new command combines all three operations and allows you to use one command to set all properties. By default, a singing (witness) key is used, so operation Witnesssetpropertiesoperation is used. If you want to use an active authority, you should set the flag --use-active-authority and then the operations witnessupdateoperation or feedpublishoperation (or both) is being performed.
Example - change HBD exchange rate using a singing (witness) key The example was run on the testnet. You can notice that the operation witness set properties was used. clive process update-witness --hbd-exchange-rate "0.14 HBD" --sign-with witnesskey
Example - change HBD exchange rate using an active key The example was run on the testnet. You can notice that the operation feed publish operation was used. clive process update-witness --use-active-authority --hbd-exchange-rate "0.14 HBD" --sign-with activekey
[Complete list of corrected issues](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/clive/-/releases/v1.27.12.3)
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