I have been on Leofinance since its start or maybe one month after the front page launched. I had no clue about the leofinance at first to tell you the truth but @trumpman was here from day one i told me about how great the whole initiative/community/token was so i jumped in! So i simply jumped in and started to post like crazy.
Now this post is part of an initiative from @leogrowth or a contest if you may, that a lot of prizes will be shared! If you wish to learn more about the contest and participate click here.
LeoFinance Then
Back when i first joined LEO i literally don't remember any of the stuff that we have now. I nearly managed the new front-page which is the one that we are currently using and not only that, it's was actually the first front-age that was way different than the rest.
You see many communities have created their own token and the vast majority of them are using the frontend that was provided which is basically very similar to the one Hive has if you are not using any dapp like peakd. So to actually see a different frontend that was more user-friendly was huge and it also showed that the team was serious.
Of course, there were no threads/communities that you can see on the taskbar above and also no LEO apps like the ones below. I think only LeoDex was a thing back then.
At the same time there were just a few people that were trying out LEO and many more that were simply using the tag in an attempt to earn some free tokens even if their content was completely irrelevant.
Leofinance Now
Fast forward to now a lot of things have happened to me and you will see me saying that a lot of times, it shows that team wants this to succeed. Now i don't know if will find the correct chronological order of the new things that were added but that isn't the point i think.
There were so many different additions like the communities option which can make your search more relevant as well as the whole thread's idea. Threads are quite a brand new concept on leoverse, it's basically microblogging. I have only tried it once and it was cool but i see many people that are loving it.
Also, another big step was the whole DeFi aspect and the team tried to get in and give us more opportunities to invest, earn and bridges to buy and sell our tokens. They did the Wrapped LEO which is basically a bridge with ETH and they also created the cub and polycub delving into the Defi space which i mentioned earlier and ofc provided us another bridge with BNB.
By doing all of the above they tried to center everything around LEO, trying to create a whole ecosystem with leo in its center. They also utilize ads that provide revenue to the team which is planning to also give some of the earnings back to the users, how cool is that?
Finally, the thing that i like the most is the whole contest/marketing initiative and therefore the @leogrowth account. I really really like the fact that they dedicated some time to increase the interaction with the community through initiatives like this one for example or with the Leo Power Up Day which is happening once each month and there are tons of prizes like the 20k of leo that i just earned for 3 weeks as a delegation!
What I want from Leofinance in the Future
Now let's talk about what i would like to see from the Leofinance team in the future. I am an honest guy so will say anything that i am thinking. Let's start with the things that can be implemented easier than some others. I would love to see a Search bar.
I honestly don't think it's something hard to be implemented. A simple search bar up in the taskbar it would make my life and lots of people's lives easier when we want to search for certain things or relevant posts. Let me give you a set of examples:
A) let's say i want to find more info about investing in a single coin or silver. I could easily type some keywords and find anything relevant posts and information i need.
B) Let's say i want to bring a friend over and i want to show him a detailed post someone once made but i can't remember who was that or when the post was uploaded but i remember the context. I can simply write some keywords and find it instead of google searching.
Aside from the search bar i would like the focus of the team or some team members on Marketing. Honestly, i believe this is what not only leo but the whole Hive ecosystem needs right now. Literally, Hive or LEO is you wish is one of the only crypto ecosystems that you can earn without spending a single dollar and we need to market that.
Currently and correct me if i am wrong there are 600 daily active users or something which is quite cool but we need 10x-100x times that amount. Thus, i would love to see more marketing efforts, contests and initiatives that will bring more people over. I don't think we constantly need to build new things if we have no people around. We need to balance that aspect. Have some people that are "loyal" then add some features and bring some new stuff over.
All in all, LEO is of the best tokens around Hive if you ask me and there is huge potential. Another example of this is that LEO had reached 1$ around a year ago. As i said i was here close to when LEO came into life and i will continue to post/curate/invest until leo reaches its full potential that for me is far above 1$.
