I recorded a quick update on the upcoming WLEO relaunch, the recently released updates to the LeoFinance UI and also our progress on the November roadmap as we roll out more features from the LeoFinance V2 P2 update and also the newest LeoInfra integration.
It's been a minute since I recorded a video and admittedly, I felt super rusty.
EDIT: I meant to edit a part out from the beginning where I just lost my train of thought mid-sentence. Oh well, guess you get some comedy there. The struggle is real.
I tried to keep it brief and to the point about the upcoming developments since we have so many projects releasing in a short period of time this week and next.
In This Update:
- LeoFinance.io V2 P2 Development Progress
- WLEO Relaunch Date and Important Info
- WLEO Wallet Update to the LeoFinance UI
- UI Feedback - New Curated Page for Manually Curated Content Feeds
- New LEO Tokenomics Widget and Real-Time Stats
- WLEO LP Returns - What's The Best Way to Provide Value to the LEO Ecosystem and Earn the Best APY?
Tomorrow, the WLEO intro post will go live on the @leofinance account which will contain our new architecture design, how we've built a more secure infrastructure and other relevant info on the WLEO relaunch. Stay tuned 🦁
LeoFinance is a blockchain-based social media community for Crypto & Finance content creators. Our tokenized app allows users and creators to engage and share content on the blockchain while earning cryptocurrency rewards.
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▶️ 3Speak
The constant development is blowing my mind 🤯 The twitter signup is gonna ba huge 🌞
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It will offer direct access from a rather large market. The users on Twitter hit hundreds of millions per month.
Imagine if we get even .01% of that total.
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I will be waiting for tomorrow post and I'm looking forward to WLEO Relaunch
Signing up with twitter?!
That must be huge for on boarding.. This is starting to get ridiculous, how many awesome features can we expect to see? It will be difficult for you to top these incredible features in the near future..
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We’re going to keep building em’!
The goal is to make the onboarding process as seamless as possible. from there, it’s up to us and the community to bring new people to the platform and give them a reason to hit get started and spend 30 seconds to sign up and then a few minutes to write their first piece of content.
Oh if you could only see the roadmap for 2021 🤠
We’re just getting started
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I dont know if I mentioned this but I am looking forward to the microblogging piece on Leofinance. 😁
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That is utterly fantastic!
I suppose twitter is the number 1 platform people are using to promote Hive and Leo content, so it makes perfect sense to have them sign up using their twitter accounts. As for bringing people, I'm currently working on something that haven't been done before (to my knowledge), so it will be fun to track the results from that. If it works like it should and like I hope, it should definitely result in more traffic at least.
That basically means that we bring them all the way to the door. Just like you do with MetaMask and the upcoming Twitter sign up.
I have a really good feeling about this..
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In fact, with this feature, LeoFinance community is actually adding value to Twitter as a Twitter account could now be linked to crypto via LEO.
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Working late huh, and with all the development not surprising you may get tired and lose train of thought.....bounced right back into your evenly-balanced eloquence though :)
I love the look and feel of the LF interface - with lights out, the orange text is striking. The ubiquitous vote power indicator is great, as is the tag suggestion feature yet to unroll. As for the Twitter signin, that could be YUUUUGE!
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Since you won't brag on your contributions, I will! Thank you so much for the many graphics that you have created for LEO Finance. I have used a few myself!
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Really nice of you to say so, it's very encouraging to hear and also to see the images being used. Many thanks Sarge 🙏😃😎
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You are more than welcome! 🙏
Great point @sgt-dan. We all have a role to fill and those with graphics ability can really enhance the view of the site.
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Great to hear TM, I'll continue creating as and when the inspiration fires 👍
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Sign up with twitter is definitely going to bring more traffic to the site. No doubt, a huge step in onboarding new users, with this options, people might be compelled to visit to the site as fun at first but they are gonna stuck here becasue of what they will find here, Leofinance is addictive, as well.
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I am glad I am not the only one. We will have to start a rehab for this at some point. 😁
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Hahaha... Agreed😃
With that Twitter sign up you can actually target prominent Crypto Tweeters because that "sign up with Twitter" gives them an easy entry to at the least step in the door. It's genius really.
I wonder then.. since on this platform exists "poshbot" which is showing people here that their here-content was shared on Twitter, then what about sharing Tweets of prominent Tweeters here on LEO. On a type of "tweeter guest list" and a simple comment on that Tweet like "your tweet was shared on LEO" could simply exist as a notice to them and also as a sneaky way to entice that Tweeter user to try out LEO on their own time. It's only natural for someone who dedicates their time to talking about Crypto on mainstreet, to seek out the LEO audience, who live Crypto!
IMO, the whole cross sharing of content is under-utilised. Sharing works at generating interest and that works as network effect so I personally believe the system of Hive, where content MUST BE ORIGINAL is limiting. I don't mean that plagiarism be practised, but if outside content (and it's authors) know that their content has attention here, then they are likely to come with interest, or at the least.. lurk. It's essentially like poaching talent, but without the spammy shilling manner of what others are doing.
Well done for your moves anyway.
Sounds like a good idea. If LeoFinance users share and discuss some prominent crypto author's Tweets and Twitter later decides to cancel that author, then that author and their followers might be delighted to see that some of the best content of that author is backed up on LeoFinance coupled with value-adding discussion.
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Yeah exactly. Your point actually reminded of the LEO recent group chat where they talk about a way to post video content onto YouTube and 3Speak (and likely other platforms) simultaneously. That's a great tool which might then be expanded on to do the same in reverse. Pull content from other platforms/networks and in a few clicks be migrated over to the Hive network.
In fact if that existed NOW Hive might likely be making news in the censorship resistant saga. Experiencing a large intake of users and a better token price even.
Imagine how convenient that would be if channels that were receiving breach notices from mainstream could have their world migrated to Blockchain in a few simple clicks. All they would then need to do is convince their followers to support their move, which a large amount would.
If then again the migration process was simplified on Hive like how LEO is doing, Hive wouldn't be lacking activity. These things aren't difficult to do either so I can't help but think that Hive is failing not because the technology isn't good but because the development and improvement is just too damn slow.
Hive developers have been focusing on scalability. Too bad scalability isn't much use if there isn't much demand for the capacity created. In reality, the entrenched top 20 witness population hasn't been too concerned about adoption as much as their own bottom lines. The exclusive focus on scalability has lowered their costs and helped them stay profitable in spite of the lackluster price action of HIVE.
Hopefully the second layer can greatly enhance adoption. If Hive were to gain a lot of new users, then that would also help scalability because the stress testing of Hive hasn't really even begun, yet. How are we to know how it would break if it has never operated above 1/1000 of the maximum capacity?
You express my views almost like a psychic medium. I've seen that too for a long time.. there's no progress because those select few get paid either way. In fact slow uptake suits them better because more users means rewards go down.
I don't see that second layer rolling out anytime soon. The recent talk between the coders was a little worrying. @blocktrades essentially had to spell out what second layer means to the other coders. So how is it that after all this time they're not even clued to it? It proves SMT was always just a great idea but existed as a dusty whitepaper only.
So for that I see at least half a year before activity becomes significant. The H-E second layer by @aggroed seems just like a money grab so I just don't see that as a solution. People who code things here want money first, when there's really no businesses minds here or a large enough userbase for that to make sense. Hence everything has very tiny communities.
The current model just isn't making Hive attractive. Even if something is ready soon, people outside still need to find out about it, projects still need time to get established, and users take time to migrate.
From my perspective, as long as Discord is the default chat for Hive users and there's no superior mobile app to get into people's hands then this is not at all going to be anything more than a niche blogging chain. Leo is achieving success because crypto blogging is relevant.
Any other group though is just fine on the mainstream platforms because they're well catered for.
I'm fairly optimistic about Leo not just because crypto blogging is relevant but because the leaders and developers of Leo have demonstrated serious drive.
I agree on the lack of business sense here. I've been trying to get people to vote on the new active witnesses outside of the top 20. Perhaps it's a design flaw to DPoS that the top tends to become entrenched, which kills all dynamism.
Speaking of mobile apps, have you tried Dapplr? I haven't because it's still not availabe for iPhones.
Yeah LEO is more than content. It embodies all that crypto/blockchain claims to be so it's great to see them making moves.
The favouritism is by design on Hive because dapplr should really be better received by the "establishment of Hive" but instead they shunned it. @ecency is the 'pet mobile app' of the hive group but the development of that only started moving when dapplr showed how easy it was too develop a good mobile experience.
I haven't tried it though because I have goggl services disabled on my phone and they only offer it through the appstore. It does look good though and they're well received by users that utilise it.
It shows what communities can do here and the powerful thing is that they offered it for free. Coincidentally, ecency then removed their beneficiary clause from using their app shortly after dapplr released free. Funny that.
Anyway I'm not against making money.
My one main gripe with things here is that people don't seem to realise that users need to find this attractive, welcoming and sustaining. For years this project of "social with rewards" has just not done that. For the million plus that have come through the door, only a tenth of that remained and then a tenth of that could say they're well rewarded.
So second layer sure better be amazing or who's even going to care!
If we can trade WLEO in leodex.io, is it better for LeoFinance users?
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You wont be able to trade wLEO in Leodex since it is on the Ethereum blockchain.
LEO is what is traded on Leodex/Hive-Engine.
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Thanks for the preparation of our minds for WLEO2 and the new LeoInfra integrations to LeoFinance.io. Certainly, 2021 would be a big year for the LF community as more functionalities gets unlocked.
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It is going to be huge.
We are really in the early stages with a great road map ahead of us.
As awesome as 2020 was for Leofinance, 2021 will be so much better.
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From all the news in here I find signing up with twitter as the massive one. I don't know much about WLEO but I like the changes you brought to the Leofinance UI.
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They target two different markets.
Obviously Twitter is huge while wLEO is targeting the Ethereum crowd.
That is the value of what is being created. We are seeing the tentacles of Leofinance spreading out. We will likely see Google and Facebook sign ups before the end of the year.
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Are you kidding me?...
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Just a guess but I know it is on the horizon at some point, at least Google is. The idea is to enable people to sign in and get involved in as many ways as possible.
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It's definitely a great idea. Hope to see it a realty asap.
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Great updates and I'm guessing that more features will be coming in the near future. :)
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A lot more features.
It is going to be an exciting 6 months.
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Well, that's good news for all of us then. Good luck and wishing for your success @taskmaster4450le!
That's some pretty bullish news, loving the distribution chart update, looks great. Can't wait to see WLEO back at it again I have no doubt its going to do well and additional exchanges and back data aggregators, yes please
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Thank you for keeping us updated! I can only imagine the flow of new lions when Twitter sign-up becomes a reality!
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You know given that I re-powered up everything I wouldn't mind AT ALL if you delayed the launch of WLEO by another week. Take your time! No rush AT ALL!
Also is the new wrapped coin going to be called the same as the old wrapped coin? So you won't need to get re-listed on coinceckgo for example?
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Wow! Do you know that I read the post almost without breathing?
We hang on your lips now when you talk about LEO updates😁😁
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That is a nasty visual.
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Just pretend it said “we hang on your every word!”
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🤣 Cross-cultural colloquial expressions do sometimes lose something in literal translations !
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Yeah that is very true.
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Thank you for all the hard work @khaleelkazi! This project definitely going straight to the moon! As you knew I am almost new here, but I have seen many changes in this last couple of days and that keeps me excited and motivated. I still have to check all the roadmap and use the UI more to see if I can give some kind of feedback.
One thing that I would love to have is a place where I could calculate rewards for Leo, I think that this was possible on HiveStats.io but since the last HF I haven't been able to check them, not even the regular rewards from Hive... I sent you a message earlier today, maybe it's a complicated question but let me knew if I can help.
And awesome news for the WLeo relaunch!
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Hivestats.io has been down since HF24. That has been my best tracking tool. I'm hoping that Khal's team are working towards having HIvestats back again soon.
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Yes, I also wish to have that tool back. But it's not the only one and I think it's more of a problem with the Hive blockchain than with the sites, right? Also, hivetasks.com (the Hive version of SteemWorld.org) has not been working properly, can't even see the curation rewards...
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Hivestats.io will be back online at some point. They just need to work out the API issues.
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I LOVE YOU @LEOFINANCE AND wLEO RELAUNCH IS ON MY TO-DO LISTS ON WED
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Crazy features out there and simply love the additional UI elements and information that we can harvest out of it. One that I love is the LEO TOKENOMICS which is a summary within a summary. Keep on enriching the site and making it a one shop stop for all financial and crypto enthusiast along with doing wallet operations out of it.
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Twitter sign-up is magic.
Too bad I don't speak English, but from what I read in the comments there are good things for LEO.
I am enjoying the curator's picks personally! Love the variety of crypto/finance related posts that appear there and like that you know they've been manually picked/reviewed as well! I tend to glance at the top banner of 5 and if I've already commented then have a glance at trending, before going to the curated picks. It just all flows really nicely - top work on that!
That widget is pretty cool too to see the percentages, like that it's quick and "at a glance"! Wonder how the spread will look as the wLEO pool thing (my technical phrasing haha) opens up!
Oooo that suggested/automated tag thing looks really good too! I'm always unsure about the tags to use as I know the first 5 are important for categorising the post so want to make sure it can be discovered - that will really help. The next 5 tags after that don't matter so much as they aren't indexed right or is that not the case anymore?
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The party goes on in this community! ;)
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Hi LeoFinancians, I hope you are feeling good here.
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