The LeoFinance Podcast

Well, after a two week hiatus by the Cat there is much to catch up on as the Sooniverse becomes NOW at a blistering pace!

Recap on some things that have happened before we touch on what is in the works!

• Deployment Real Time Threads: The Threads feed gets updated live whenever there's a new Thread. People loved it but it was a little buggy, so we are cleaning the code to re-launch it some time this week.
• The 2nd official partnership with OnixCoin and their flagship game Army of Crypto went live. Make sure to check their community page and add engagement there. Go check their game and make a review on Leo!
• The Trending Tags got some love and look awesome now, with a hot tag next to the top three.

• Rich search: Lions can search for anything in the search box, and they will get suggestions based on users, tags, and communities. These suggestions are clean and separated from each other, improving the user experience.

• The Explore Page got a whole new feeling. Lions wanted a more friendly discovery option and we heard them. It is now easier to browse content and there's also a who to follow section with some of the most active authors on Threads and most prolific writers in high quality Long form content.

On to what is coming up SOON:

• The bookmarks feature is getting an update
• Image uploading on HiveSigner+ Word count feature, finally
• New tickers are coming
• Threads section to community pages incoming
• Favorites menu incoming
• News2Threads is getting a lot of action,more sites will be added and a batch of users to start using it - if you want to be a tester, write to anomadsoul
• Three more partnerships coming, but we need the Lions to help us populate the existing ones and try out the apps of our partners: If this partnerships succeed, more projects will come. Check out SanR and ArmyOfCrypto

LPUD got a new approach:

With the price rise, lower inflation, less liquid out there, and 5M+ Leo powered up in a year, LPUD gets ranks now:

• Lion attack (150 leo)
• Cub attack (50 leo)

This will give users a chance to participate even if they can't power up 150 month after month. The badge and the full prize array is still only available for 150 power ups, but there are some prizes for the Cub attack -> LPUD adapts to the new LeoVerse growth scenario.

Community Feedback and Help...

Anyone can post to any community now from leofinance.io, help us spread the word and try using leofinance for everything. We know habits are strong, but step out of your comfort zone!

Again: We need your feedback, check this post to participate:

https://leofinance.io/@leofinance/a-call-for-feedback-what-do-you-want-to-see-added-to-leofinanceio-next

This episode is very special because we go in-depth with everything related to our latest partnership with OnixCoin and their flagship game, Army of Crypto.

We also go in-depth about what is going on in the LeoVerse at the moment.

And to finish, we have a couple community members come in and ask questions live!

Definitely a show you don't want to miss!

Lion Stronk! What a great past week of updates and growth. A Review of What Is and Was: + AdSense in the mix -> more personalized regionalized ads are not hitting your page! + The Zealy prize pool was mostly powered up, and those who sold, the market gobbled their LEO and we're back at 8c already -> leo stronk. + The Ad revenue display on Threads launched on the last call and is pretty cool feature. Remember that this feature is coming to Long Form as well. LPUD came and went

227k Powered Up and 179 Lion powered up atleast 150 leo.

+ The goal was 200 but maybe the price of Leo played a role here, a ton of people powered up 50-100 leo as well

+ June LPUD saw the second most number or lions power up. Price action - 140% up from YTD Low (0.033c in March) The first Curation reports are out! They will come out every Sunday, follow @leo-curation and add the account to your autovotes, it helps us reward curators! Once a month, @leofinance will post a mega-monthly report. Coming updates:

+ Discord future updates: #resources, #roadmap, #tutorials are coming! + AdRev is looking to be around 5k/month

+ We are advancing on NFTs - > concept is almost done, use cases being worked on, backend being taken care of ....Soon.

+ We have "Info points" and "ambassadors" solving questions on discord now, the team is now made of ~15 Lions who help grow the LeoVerse through many mini-initiatives - curation is a big one of them! Leo runway for operations is still multi-year with a basket of stables, bitcoin and ETH held. Updates on LeoCache LeoCache is going to solve tons of problems, such as the scroll not keeping up. This will be implemented SOON. New updates on the UI?

Trading League is live, no official announcement out yet though. This first one is a test to see how it works. You can come play and try to break stuff here: https://sanr.app/clubs/LeoFinance Marketwatch

+ BTC Dominance at 50% for the first time in 2 years! Price is back above 27k!

+ Blackrock's ETF application- they have rarely ever received a denial

+ BNB chain starts testnet on their L2 powered by Optimism

+ IMF doubles down on CBDCs and envisions a single ledger cross-border payment platform Another Roaring Week in LeoFinance (yeah, I said that lol)

The Wensoon Show 196 Price of LEO is skyrocketing! Leo keeps pushing higher the past few weeks and it continues to look strong: + Between the new UI, new tokenomics, community loyalty and the Gamification side all created a huge synergy that has $leo on and uptrend contrary to the whole market, we mooning. Zealy came to an end: cardiac finish!

+ The top 10 really had to grind to stay on top. @Underlock and @Nonsowrites took 1st and 2nd, congrats! + As a final battle we had three armies who competed to create threads (that took character count, tags usage, poll usage, correct link sharing and more): black lions army defeated white and brown lions on an epic 36-hour battle with more than 23k quality threads. + Winners will be officially announced and prizes transferred on the 14th.

No keyword this week, but SOON

People already miss their quests, miss their hustling. Good news though - Zealy is here to stay! So instead of missing the grind use this time to rest cause on the 18th the grind begins again!

Lpud is coming.

+ May was a record month for Leo powered up! Nearly 1.5M thanks to Zealy quests and the team powering up. So for June we have the goal is having 200 Lions or more powerup atleast 150 LEO. No total Leo goal cus Lions are dry… or are they? Either way, power up at least 150 Leo and do your part! UI and Ad Revs

+ View counters on threads and ad rev generated by the threads is a thing now. It breaks down how many people saw it capped at 3 views per dynamic IP so it’s not rigged. This also adds another layer or gamification that goes even one step further than Twitter! + The new long form discovery layout went live and it’s beautiful, users can see either Leo Finance or the whole Hive Blockchain. So cool! Crypto Market Chatter The SEC continues its obvious war against crypto. The blowback they didn't expect was the SEC stabilization act that is not being bandied about. Hive had a huge presence at web3 Berlin this past weekend, Leo even had a small booth so potential users learn about the Leoverse. Big success for the hive ecosytem. Elsewhere, U.S. inflation fell to 4% year over year so most expect the FED not to raise rates. How this impacts crypto remains to be seen. Interesting times per the usual.

Another week gone by and this one was a doozy! The leofinance discord server got hacked and the crypto market sold off (those items aren't exclusively related lol)

Lion Strong At the end of the day, the leofinance server was down about three hours before everything got rectified. Furthermore the hackers only got $40 from the community from what we have seen. So basically, leofinance 1 hackers 0. This does remind us though that we should never click on random links and that DMs soliciting things do not come from mods. SEC hating again... The SEC filed suit against Binance with multiple charges and then to put icing on the cake...they decided to sue Coinbase as well. The irony in that is coinbase filed suit against the SEC a while back demanding answers from them on what coins are and are not considered securities so that they could be in compliance. Leofinance Updates And amidst all this week's drama the dev team is still cranking out updates. The latest is notifications. The notifications page is updated for a better user experience. A really cool feature is you can search through your notifications by user if you want to see all the interactions a specific user has done in regard to your content. Login in and actions... Basically everything works great outside of those using hivesigner. That seems to have some bugs still. Bug fix channel on discord to report anything you find. Payouts Posts now show the payouts in leo and hbd when you hover over the amount. The hbd number is the value of the hive and hbd you are receiving. The text will likely be updated to show "hive rewards" or something to that effect.

After a week away the cat is back! I have Khal giving us all the latest UI updates for leofinance and I gave all my opinions on the long form experience cus we all know I'm an old school blogger! Lions and Threads, Oh My! Long Form new Editor is here - and this cat loves how seamless it is to create posts now. Still a bug here or there but otherwise so much better. Remember, submit bugs to the bug fix channel in discord. Community Polls - Polls are working wonders, 21 communities still thriving and decentralized voting the author of the week. Pretty cool! Payout Display - if you hover over the payout display it will give you a breakdown of it. Leo Curation The curation update seems to be working well as there is more defined actions on how to have a chance at getting upvotes from the leo acct. The details are listed here on how to best go about it: https://leofinance.io/posts/leofinance/a-complete-overhaul-to-curation-on-leofinance-be-active-and-earn-big-upvotes-32m-hp ThreadStorms! Are lions have been getting more active, with a hell of a threadstorm a week ago as you can see the number of lions remains solid while the activity increases. And so much more...

But you gotta watch the replay if you want it all as cat can't type that fast!

What an awesome week in the leofinance ecosystem! We saw LPUD hit a new record and the inflation rate on LEO get dropped, we'll get into it all below. LPUD Hits New Record! Power up day had a hell of a day with 525K leo being powered up, shattering the prior record of 333k. 267 lions powered up and it game from all levels: dolphins, plankton and others. LEO Inflation and Burns The inflation rate on LEO dropped from 25k a day to 5k due to burns and the purchase of leo to pay out delegator curation rewards. This trend should continue as the bounty acct needs to buy more leo as delegators continue to grow. Monthly Active Users Leofinance continues to see growth here as MAUs already hit 1,030 by the halfway mark of the month. There have been 71K threads in May already, crushing the previous record of 43K in February. Curation Updates The way threads are curated has seen some changes and the @leogrowth account is the place to see what that entails. It mainly has to do with limits based on pride rank and such. Other random updates Account switching is now live so soon is now. Photo uploading is also live, mainly seems to work fine on desktop - mobile is a wildcard and should be good in the next week or so. Following tab for longform is in the sooniverse, along with editing threads. Crypto Market Chatter Bitcoin teased as all and poked below that 27k area support before rallying and forming a reversal candle. Price has not really rallied off that yet, but it also has held the support so it will be interesting to see what happens over the rest of the week with price. Onward and upward Bugs keep getting worked out and features added so the UI expereince continues to get better. Until next time!

This was the break stuff episode as the UI was down during the AMA with live BETA being in Full Force! Updates The Profile has gotten updates as the BLOG link is now live and drafts are good to go as well. Setting page is coming soon with lots more options as well. Zealy Campaign KEYWORD(S) For those who may have missed it, the keyword(s) were announced on the AMA! Here is a link to the replay so you can find them! WEN NODE The UI is down because leofinance is making to many calls to the HIVE nodes and are being limited or just choking node production. Possible fixes: Create Leofinance's own node Spread leofinance calls out amongst all the nodes Sounds like option one is being leaned on as going forward it would make sense because volume is only gonna grow. Random Crypto Bitcoin is floundering in the mid 27k area near the lower end of it's current trading range. Are we bullish right now, are we bearish. It is up for speculation. This cat thinks we are neither at the moment.

The day is finally here. The new UI is now the live and technically beta as some features still need to be rolled out, but leofinance domain will take you to the new look UI.

Soon is Now! The biggest update into the new UI is the leoinfra update that enables to social logins/sign ups to leofinance.

Zealy Campaign

The zealy campaign is spreading the word as new people are coming in looking to create accounts and some have questions on how too, so lend a helping hand if you see anyone inquiring.

Speaking off zealy, today's keyword is....

• Mainstream

Microblogging for the win! Most new users coming in will likely engage in the short form which makes sense. Short-form is easier to engage and should help increase engagement rate. Long Form is Not Dead As the beta period of the new leofinance progress the accessibility to long form will become easier to find.

I know this cat will still be creating long form content and the trending category will show long form content once all the dust settles.

Sign Up & Account Keys

Multitasking is a mofo. Between trying to write this recap, thread, host the livestream and interact in the discord chat I miss pieces of what Khal is sharing. Oops.

There was a piece of about sign up and login through twitter for example. It sounded like after creating an account, after doing so you can download and change your keys so that leofinance is no longer storing/holding your keys.

On the flipside, you would use your private keys to login and no longer your twitter ID to login.

This makes sense for those who want to use other HIVE based Dapps. For those just looking to interact on leofinace than using twitter ID works just fine, no need to mess withe keys if not desired.

SEO Improvement

With the new UI the SEO ranking will likely improve due to several reasons including internal links, etc.

Leoglossary will be a part of this growth as you will be able to search leoglossary within threads. Thus links from that being used.

LeoAds

The big updates to leoads will be live come later this month, atleast that is the word in the soonerverse.

And so much more

Plenty more was talked about, from current features to coming soon features like personalized feeds (which I really look forward too).

Not all of it made the post, which is why joining us on the call is always the move!

Onward and upward. Let's grow the community.

UI Updates The Leo alpha site continues to get updates as we steam roll toward the May 1st launch. Ads are live Ads are now showing on threads so that revenue generator is off an running in its first instance. There are still many adjustments coming when it comes to ads. One click voting You can now hit the toggle switch up top to turn on 1 click voting. The default is 5%, but in the future you will be able to customize the weighting. See no links! There is also a toggle switch to hide any threads that have links in them. So if you are sick of seeing link spamming, now you don't have too! Awesome Updates I like that all these updates are useful functionality things that users can benefit from. There are plenty more updates comning. Up your role When you hover over someone's user name on threads you will see their role on leofinance and their profile. More leopower you hold, the more baller role you have. Let's all aim to be an Apex Lions! NFT badges NFT badges is a cool idea. The idea is badges will be earned based on hitting certain milestones or completing certain things. I like this as an add on/upgrade of the roles. Promote Threads! The Zealy campaign is running strong and if you want to conquer the available quests and earn a shot at some $$$ then have at it and help promote LEO while having fun too! Also, 200K worth of HIVE delegations is also up for grabs. @theycallmedan is putting up 100K in delegations as a way to help promote and the @leofinance team is matching him! Here is the discord group for all the details: https://discord.gg/RqGYf9FgYS General Crypto Chat Coinbase flips the script and files lawsuit against the SEC. This should be interesting as coinbase as literally done everything asked of them, filed for every license they were directed to and basically bent over backwards to meet whatever the regulators wanted. Guess they had enough of all that and have basically sent a lawsuit just to demand a yes or no from the SEC so they know how to move forward. Apparently VISA announced they launched an ambitious crypto product roadmap... That's all folks! See you on the next one.

It's a day late, but not a dollar short! The AMA happened on Wednesday, lets blame it on Tax Day for missing the Tuesday slot hahaha.

HBD Savings - When Ponzi

So someone posted on twitter calling HBD a ponzi so of course the leo and hive community had full force fun with it. All sorts of tweets, threads and posts came out sarcastically "showing" why HBD has to be a ponzi.

Leo Ads

The dynamic of Leo Ad revenue is constantly growing. The addition of threads has already led to more ad revenue.

The larger overhaul is still on docket, but it is a matter of WEN which is par for the course.

The ad marketplace will allow for anyone to purchase ads. The revenue from those ads will get distributed to those who hold leo power.

What's cool is the ads can purchased with other coins and those will be converted into leo and that leo will get distributed into the leo power balances of holders.

Monthly Active Users

Get the word out and get all the lions threading. April monthly active users is on pace for 900 which is slightly below the 1K we hit in March.

There are 11 days left in April, we can pump it up. Tell your friends ;-)

LPUD Crushing it again

252k Leo was powered up (3rd best in history). 167 users (3rd best in history) powered up. 77% of supply is now staked, pretty cool!

Crypto News

Blocktrades is pulling out of the U.S. market due to concerns over the SEC and them sending lawsuits to basically any crypto exchange of late.

Coinbase announced if regulatory clarity doesn't emerge in the near future they may port their business overseas.

May 1st launch, it is close!

May 1 is the launch of alpha leo to full production. Should be an exciting time.

This is the Weekly WenSoon Show - Leo Finance AMA #186 It is officially Q2 of 2023 and after an awesome Q1 full of updates in the leofinance ecosystem we are keeping the ball rolling into this fresh quarter. All the LEO Updates Features getting ready to hit and some that already are: * Drafts is now available on the Alpha UI so feel free to go there to post your long form content without worry. * Soon to be released: * Wallet incoming * Discord2Threads in the works * More login options (i.e, hivesginer, using key, etc.) Leo Ads Initiative Khal spoke more about the Ads protocol and what the vision is. If you are familiar with facebook ads, well it will be similar to that....in that people can create ad campaigns and bid on ads. This means ads won't just be "dumb" ads from one provider, thus creating more ad clients which means more revenue for burns. More Users Ser??? 1027 MAUs for March has been hit. So target #1 of hitting 1K on the way to the 5K yearly goal. Crypto News Bot on Threads! Yep, forget chasing the latest crypto news on sites that are not leofinance (cus who wants to do that anyway) as there is now a news bot on threads! Leofinance now has a crypto news bot that not only grabs the latest crypto news, but runs it through ChatGPT to summarize the news into a thread. So cool! The bot's name is CRYPTO INSIGHTS. So if you see it, now you know. Cub Deflationary, so it is so! Tomorrow the latest cub report will be out and share the news that cub has gone deflationary! Hooray, there is now more cub being burned in March than being minted. Pretty freaking cool from this cat's perspective. At the same time, this doesn't mean cub price will moon, but it does mean that there is no new supply as a net effect hitting the market. Calling all Lions! The team is extending an invitation to write a post about what you want to see in the LeoVerse. Team meeting is Friday, they will take ideas into account. Tag your post with #leoverse

In this week's AMA, we covered a wide range of topics including AirBnB regulations vs. Crypto regulations and the normal LeoFinance x CubFinance AMA Questions.

We've just released LeoInfra V3 and LeoMobile!

PolyCUB is on the horizon!

On this episode of the LeoFinance podcast, I'm joined by Esteban de la Peña! He has worked in the space for several years now and has most recently been heavily involved with the emerging lightning payment rails for merchants accepting BTC. 

He has some incredibly interesting takes on BTC, the future of payments via Lightning, El Salvador, Merchant Treasuries looking to hold Bitcoin and much much more! I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@leofinance/the-leofinance-podcast-returns-or-esteban-de-la-pena-on-ibex-el-salvador-s-adoption-of-bitcoin-lightning-and-the-future-of-btc

This bull run has had both a number of familiarities and a number of differences. In 2017, there was a massive boom in interest for the crypto space. The ICO craze marked one of the highlights of the bull run.

This time, there is the DeFi craze. There are some key differences between the ICO craze and the DeFi craze. DeFi feels more legitimate. It feels like it's solving a real use case and not just raising funds for some crazy new token that will end up going to 0.

• 00:00:00 You Either Know About Bitcoin or You Get Left Behind
• 00:02:30 This Bull Run Feels Like the 2017 Rally - Analysis With Bitcoin Dominance
• 00:05:15 2017 ICO Craze Vs. 2020 DeFi Craze
• 00:07:30 RUNE Analysis - Why We're Bullish
• 00:14:00 Bitcoin, Selling Crypto into Stablecoins and Avoiding Taxes with Lending Contracts
• 00:26:10 Using Crypto Futures to Hedge Your Portfolio
• 00:34:00 Is DeFi the Future of Passive Income and "Cashing Out" of Crypto?
• 00:46:00 Taking Rolland's Bets to the Blockchain
• 01:02:20 The New Update for LeoFinance.io
• 01:10:00 Q&A on ProjectBlank - Airdrop Details
• 01:18:00 ProjectBlank Will Change the Way Hive Content Creation Works on a Fundamental Level
  

In this episode of the Daily LEO, we talk about Tesla's recent acquisition of $1.5B worth of BTC and their important announcement around accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment. Many people are wondering if it's too late to get into Bitcoin and if they already missed the boat.

Show Notes & Links: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/daily-leo-10-tesla-apple-and-major-players-adopting-bitcoin-or-is-it-too-late-for-retail-investors

The Daily LEO is a crypto-focused newsletter that we'll publish every day (Monday-Friday) which will contain the most relevant news and happenings in the space. This newsletter will be published everywhere.

LeoFinance is a blockchain-based social media community for Crypto & Finance content creators. Our tokenized app (https://leofinance.io) allows users and creators to engage and share content on the blockchain while earning cryptocurrency rewards.

The events yesterday have a profound impact on all of us right now. Shaking the momentum of LeoFinance and our resolve to the core.

What we do in the days that follow will define how our community and platform develop in the future. As much as I wish we could go back in time and change the way that things happened, we can’t. Instead, we have to learn from the successes and the failures. We have to take what is given to us and move in the only direction possible: forward.

In this episode, we talk about the hack. Plans to recover from it and also our future plans to build LeoFinance into a better project moving forward including new UI releases and other features from our roadmap.

Another day, another LeoFinance Roundtable about Wrapped LEO (wLEO). The community is gearing up as we approach this week’s launch and the questions keep flowing in.

There are a lot of questions about LEO, our new interface, Wrapped LEO, Uniswap, Ethereum, etc. In these roundtables, we’ve been collecting these questions and exploring them and others live on the show. These have been a big help for a lot of people - especially those who don’t have much experience with crypto outside of the Hive blockchain.

The nuances of Ethereum bring a lot of opportunities for LeoFinance and the LEO token but they also bring a lot of questions. Hopefully these roundtables have helped you as we approach the launch. We’re also clipping the nuggets of content out of each roundtable and posting them on Hive/in the new wLEO repository on LeoPedia.

In This Episode:

• 0:00 New Landing Page + LeoFinance Beta Interface Updates
  
• 8:10 Wrapped LEO Behind the Scenes — How Do the Mechanics and WLEO Interface Work?
  
• 18:40 Do Liquidity Provider’s Effect the Price of the Underlying Token?
  
• 20:50 Is There Any Risk to Being a Liquidity Provider?
  
• 22:40 Is wLEO’s Price Based on Hive-Engine?
  
• 26:20 Investing in LEO Now is Like Being an Angel Investor
  
• 32:00 The Token Flow Impacts of Listing LEO On Multiple Exchanges
  
• 38:30 Hive, Market Caps and Being a Utility Token
  
• 41:00 Do You Have Enough LEO?
  
• 44:45 A New Age of Crypto: Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) Gains Wider Adoption
  
• 46:28 “You’ll Never Get Another Chance to Buy LEO Under $0.10” - @rollandthomas
  
• 51:54 LeoFinance User Growth and How The Price is Making Curating/Authoring Content More Important Than Ever
  
• 1:01:05 wHIVE Pool - An Example of How Even a Low Volume Token Yields APR For Liquidity Providers
  
• 1:05:55 The Viral Factor of Uniswap Liquidity Pools
  
• 1:07:29 EOS DeFi and Alternatives to Ethereum
  
• 1:12:50 LEO’s Tight Liquidity is a Limiting Factor for Uniswap Pooling, but the Driving Factor of  Rapid Price Appreciation
  
• 1:15:56 An Exercise In Imagination: Is a 30x Price Increase an Unreasonable Expectation?
  
• 1:20:00 Listing LEO on Coingecko - Could it Pass Hive’s Market Cap?
  
• 1:34:00 Neal Buys More LEO
  
• 1:36:00 Don’t Underestimate the Value of User Growth
  
• 1:47:35 Price Dynamics Between Uniswap and Hive-Engine
  
• 1:57:00 Neal & Mitch’s Tokenized Real Estate Fund
  
• 2:11:00 wLEO Launch Party?
  

The LeoFinance community and LEO token economy are undergoing some major upgrades in the coming weeks. We’ve announced that tomorrow will mark the launch of the new LeoFinance beta interface - featuring the Hive blogging UI that we’ve built from the ground up.

Shortly after the new interface launches, we’ll be launching the wLEO token on the Ethereum blockchain which we’ve mentioned in a few posts already. The wLEO launch is highly anticipated and a lot of people are either very excited about the launch or very confused - and in most cases, a bit of both.

In this episode, TM4450 and I run through some of the top questions surround wLEO and many of the other developments surrounding the LeoFinance platform:

• What’s the value of a wrapped LEO token? (0:03:51)
• Why would anyone on Hive use Ethereum? (0:06:28)
• People under appreciate the development and activity on the ETH blockchain (0:07:52)
• Liquidity Pool Incentives and airdrop details (0:15:44)
• Mid to Long-Term vision for wLEO (0:21:18)
• How does this help the overall LeoFinance ecosystem? (0:35:26)
• Will wLEO get listed under other DeFi projects? (0:38:05)
• New investors buying the LEO token (0:40:20)
• New Hive-based blogging interface: confirmed launch into open beta tomorrow (0:50:58)
• wLEO is a long-term value add for the LEO token economy and LF platform (0:57:44)

LeoFinance is a blockchain-based social media community for Crypto & Finance content creators. Our tokenized blogging platform (https://leofinance.io) allows users and creators to engage and share content on the blockchain while earning LEO token rewards. Learn more about us at https://leopedia.io/faq.