Hey everyone! INLEO successfully onboarded over 10k Monthly Active Users. We're now aiming at an even more ambitious goal: onboard 50k monthly active users to the Hive blockchain.
ICYMI: we fully integrated and onboarded the entire Dash Ecosystem to the Hive blockchain using our vertically integrated tech stack. Dash users can now become Hive users using only their Dash Wallet. We've innovated yet another new (in addition to our previous Hive Lite Account innovation) way to sign up and login to the Hive blockchain. Dash users can now:
- Signup to Hive using their Dash Wallet
- Earn DASH for their social activities on Hive through INLEO
- Pay for INLEO Premium & Creator Subscriptions using DASH
We are using the Dash integration and "Join INLEO, Earn DASH" Campaign as a framework to onboard the masses to Hive through INLEO.
Imagine campaigns to "Join INLEO, Earn BTC", "Join INLEO, Earn FLIP", "Join INLEO, Earn RUNE" etc. etc.
If we receive DHF funding for 2025, we will begin rolling these campaigns out as soon as our proposal is passed.
The core use case for this funding is for these co-marketing campaigns. The Dash team paid to have 30+ Press Releases written about the DASH x INLEO x Hive integration. These press releases brought hundreds of thousands of link clicks to https://inleo.io.
In addition, the LEO Team paid to launch X Ads for the "Join INLEO, Earn DASH" campaign. Those ads collectively got over 10M views. One ad alone reached 1.7M views and over 2,000 unique accounts were created from it.
Ecosystems like DASH, Maya Protocol, Thorchain and Arbitrum have extremely large Marketing budgets and they are willing to spend them on a co-marketing campaign like this. We've done it with Dash and we are now in talks with these other ecosystems who said they will do the same but they want to see us co-market alongside them with some of our marketing budget alongside the sweat equity we put into building the custom tech for each integration. As an ecosystem, INLEO & Hive need to put up equivalent marketing funds with our external ecosystem partners like Dash, Arbitrum, Thorchain and the many more to come in 2025.
These ecosystems want to see both sweat equity and ad equity spend when you market with them. We are already talking to the ChainFlip team, Arbitrum Foundation, Maya UIs, Thorchain UIs, Solana and many others to do this kind of co-marketing campaign.
When we receive DHF funding we will launch campaigns with each of these teams to "Join INLEO, Earn XYZ Crypto" and onboard each ecosystem one-by-one.
Like dominos, the integrations will bring thousands of users at a time. One-by-one we will integrate each partnership and launch co-marketing campaigns. By the end of 2025, we expect to surpass 50k Monthly Active Users on INLEO which means 50k Monthly Active Users on Hive.
Along with all of this is capital. These ecosystems bring investors and users with capital and all of INLEO's payment rails and revenue models settle in HBD on the Hive blockchain. We will bring revenue and investments into the Hive ecosystem through these partnerships in a way that has never been done before.
INLEO has innovated technology on Hive that is now being used by every interface (i.e. container model for short-form content). INLEO continues to innovate and put data onchain for Hive in many other ways. We will continue to innovate our technology and build the best Web3 experience on the planet... all of it, living on Hive.
As we do this, we will roll out these campaigns with other ecosystems and grow Hive.
Features on INLEO
Killer dApps, Rolled into One Seamless Interface:
- Twitter (X) Killer - Microblogging on-chain: /@v2
- Medium Killer - Long-Form content for every topic: https://inleo.io.io/posts
- Reddit Killer - Community Pages as a Reddit alternative: https://inleo.io/communities
- A dedicated section for Finance and Crypto related content: https://inleo.io/communities/hive-167922
- Decentralized, stake-weighted Polls: @tag/polls
- *NEW Tik Tok Killer - https://inleo.io/shorts
- *NEW Centralized Exchange Killer: https://inleo.io/leodex/wallet
- *NEW Substack Killer - @leofinance/introducing-creator-subscriptions-paywall-encrypted-content-on-hive-earn-more-crypto-65a
- *NEW Stripe Killer - @khaleelkazi/introducing-leo-merchants-pay-with-any-crypto-using-inleo-settlement-in-hive-hbd-geh
Also Built by INLEO:
- Premium subscription model that brings outside capital into the HIVE ecosystem by settling payments in HBD
- LeoMerchants (Stripe Killer) that allows other apps to accept ANY cryptocurrency and settle payments in HBD (again, bringing outside capital in)
- LeoAuth internal login protocol
- LeoInfra - Hive Lite Accounts using X & Google
- Keystore Accounts - a totally new and highly secure login method for Hive account onboarding
- LeoCache - A Second-Layer Caching mechanism that enables the Threads indexing backend as well as speedy activities on the UI
- Hivestats.io - the #1 stats interface for Hive blockchain account tracking
- Cross-chain Hive wallets on https://inleo.io
- https://leodex.io - a new cross-chain trading interface that is built on Maya Protocol and seamlessly connects Hive to the world of cross-chain through our Hive Aggregation Technology
- Hive Aggregation Technology V2 (HAT V2) - one-click Hive swaps for Native L1 HIVE -> BTC, ETH and nearly any crypto asset
- @leofinance - our Hive witness
- LeoTower - A Custom JSON Watchtower backend for Polls, Threads, Shorts, Referrals, Delegations now and eventually, future features we're bringing to the chain that specifically use JSON-enabled functionalities
- LeoNode - a highly scalable full-node for the Hive blockchain. Needed especially to scale Threads as it is resource intensive
- Hive Resource Credit Dynamic pool (INLEO has accumulated over 3M HIVE Power across various accounts and has built a dynamic pool to delegate RCs to all users as needed)
- On-chain referral system - earn referral rewards paid as $LEO when you onboard your friends to Hive
- In-app Engagement Leaderboards to encourage more on-chain activity (i.e. Threads, Comments, Posts, Replies)
- LeoShorts (tik tok killer) - Short-form videos as an alternative to TikTok/IG stories, integrating with 3Speak
- and many many more! Explore all the new technology we've built and continue to release on a daily basis at https://inleo.io
INLEO DELIVERS - let's be super clear. Compare the features we are writing about in this blog post to our blog posts from ~18 months ago. We had so many ambitious promises - for example, adding a Tik Tok style platform to Hive, using encrypted content to launch Creator Subscriptions, Dynamic RC Delegation tool, decentralizing Hive trading with LeoDex, launching a Merchants platform with cross-chain payments and so many others. We delivered on all of these promises AND MORE. INLEO continues to overpromise and overdeliver year after year. And we do it all on the Hive blockchain.
Coming in 2025
- Twitter (X) Export protocol for a one-click button to export a Twitter account's historical content to the Hive blockchain and store them as Threads (key to onboarding Twitter users to a blockchain alternative, using Hive)
- LeoAI - a chatgpt+ style feature that will be deeply integrated into the INLEO Experience. A Copilot, a new way to Search the Hive blockchain. LeoAI is built from the ground up and trained on all Hive blockchain Data
- LeoAds Protocol - permissionless, direct B2B ad platform (think Facebook Ads but on Hive through INLEO)
- Encrypted on-chain chats at scale - Hive needs a scalable encryption chat layer with a clean UI for DMs and Chatrooms, we will deliver something that people want to use: just like we did with Threads, Shorts and many other features
- New Hive onboarding methods (similar to how we built Hive Lite Accounts through X & Google and most recently launched Keystore Hive Accounts)
- LeoAI APIs that other Hive apps can connect to and utilize for high quality data retreival from the Hive blockchain (imagine use cases like Search on Ecency getting an order of magnitude better using LeoAI's SLM + LLM Model)
- LeoMerchants API for Hive Apps - any Hive app can accept any cryptocurrency for payment. Payments are settled in HBD (brings outside capital into the Hive ecosystem)
- LeoMerchants API for brick-and-mortar shops - any shop anywhere in the world can accept any crypto for payment. Payments flow through the Hive ecosystem and settle in any cryptocurrency the merchant wants to receive
- LeoMerchants PoS system - a Point of Sale system allows merchants in the real world to accept payments. INLEO hasn't publicly announced this yet, but we're working with a PoS partner to build PoS devices and deliver them to brick-and-mortar businesses so they can accept Crypto as payments. All payments flow through the Hive ecosystem. Customers can pay in any crypto and merchants can accept any crypto
- ChainFlip Aggregation added to our Hive Aggregator on https://leodex.io (connecting Hive to the ChainFlip ecosystem + solana, etc.)
- Thorchain Aggregation added to our Hive Aggregator on https://leodex.io (connecting Hive to the largest cross-chain DEX ecosystem on the planet)
- Organization Accounts on INLEO - bringing Premium a whole new use case for orgs on Hive
- Enhanced Profiles on Hive - taking the basic framework of Hive profiles and expanding the potential of them. One Account to Rule Them All
- Threadcasts overhaul - Threadcasts have become a major use case for putting live events and chatting on the Hive blockchain. We plan to expand this in a huge way in 2025 and turn Threadcasts into a real "Twitch Chat Killer" alternative
- Go LIVE - livestream video feature on INLEO to accompany the new Threadcast features. HUGE announcement coming in Q2, 2025
- Solana Integration. SOL Wallets and payments using SOL and SOL-based assets
- LEO listings on CEXes and DEXes - we'll continue to bring LEO to more blockchains and for the first time ever, Centralized Exchanges. Listing LEO in these places increases the velocity of trading volume for the LEO Token which is valuable for increasing potential trading volume for HIVE on our Hive Aggregation Technology Rails
- and many many more! Join us for our Weekly AMAs to hear about the Roadmap as it evolves in real time and we roll features out to the https://inleo.io platform
Our Vision for The Everything App on Hive is definitive and permanent, and we have a 10-year roadmap ahead of us. This vision has a self-funded development runway for expenses that will allow us to keep building and growing, no matter what.
Our mission has long been to grow the Hive ecosystem but we want to do it right. We want to bring in both capital and users from the outside into the Hive blockchain.
We've said this before and we'll continue to repeat it: our mission and mandate is to build the best Web3 experience on the planet and drive the masses into Hive. They want a seamless, intuitive experience and INLEO is providing that.
Put it All Onchain
Khal gave a speech at HiveFest 2024 that sums it all up: INLEO is about putting EVERYTHING onchain.
What chain is that?
Hive.
When you look at all of the technology we have developed, it fundamentally is driven by this premise. Putting all of our data onto the Hive blockchain and using it as the hub for activity, data deposits and retrievals. We're best in-class at doing this and our integrations with other blockchains means that we're bringing people from other chain and getting them to store their financial and social data on Hive as well. The Dash integration is a fantastic example of this.
Dash Integration and Partnership - A Framework For the Future
At HiveFest 2024 in Croatia, Khal and Joel met eachother for the first time. Joel had used Hive in the past but was no longer active for a few reasons. One is that Hive lacked a killer dApp. The Everything App didn't exist yet.
In Croatia I (Khal) showed Joel the INLEO Experience. He was blown away and we immediately started talking about how we could bring Dash to the Hive Ecosystem through INLEO.
It was clear that 3 core pillars were needed from a technical POV:
- Dash users needed to be able to login to Hive using their Dash wallet
- Dash users needed to be able to earn DASH for their social media content on Hive
- Dash users needed to be able to pay for INLEO Products/Services (Premium, Creator Subs, etc.) using DASH
At the time, these 3 things sounded like arduous technical burdens. It seemed like it would take years to get the technology to this point. I promised Joel that INLEO would solve these 3 things before the end of 2024.
And like we do with everything we promise, INLEO Delivers. We achieved our goal of launching this tech before the end of 2024 during the month of December, we saw a massive influx of users join through the Dash x INLEO partnership.
Join INLEO using a Dash Wallet (Keystore)
Cashout LEO Earnings to DASH in one-click to your connected DASH Wallet
Buy INLEO Premium, Creator Subs and (Soon) more prodcuts/features with DASH
All of these users are now signed up to Hive accounts, earning HIVE POWER and earning LEO that can be cashed out to Dash using a single button.
A Framework for the Future
The Dash integration has been incredibly fruitful for INLEO but this is just the beginning. The Dash integration opened doors for INLEO and Hive in ways that we could have never imagined.
Not only can our technology be easily used as a template for onboarding ANY crypto (yes, any crypto listed on Maya, ChainFlip and Thorchain - which is nearly all of them) but the Dash integration also brought the world of crypto to our doorstep.
We are now in talks with the ChainFlip Team, Arbitrum Foundation, Several Maya Interfaces, Several Thorchain Interfaces, A Solana-Community Founder, Several Solana Memecoin Communities, a Prominent ETH-Community Founder and about a dozen other critical Crypto Project teams in the space.
Guess what? They all saw "Join INLEO, Earn DASH" and now they want the same protocol + campaign for their ecosystem.
All of these ecosystems want a Web3 social media experience for their userbase. INLEO now has the technology and the clout to provide it thanks to the Dash Integration. This integration changed everything for us and has radically transformed our capabilities in terms of onboarding and bringing in outside users AND capital to the Hive Ecosystem through Keystore Onboarding + LeoMerchants.
50k Monthly Active Users - Deliver or Return the Funding to the DHF
I believe in delivering on your promises. INLEO delivered over 10,000 Monthly Active Users to the Hive blockchain in 2024. We WILL deliver 50,000 Monthly Active Users to the Hive blockchain by December 31st, 2025.
The same way we promised to deliver 10k MAUs in 2024 or else return all the DHF funds back to the Hive DAO, we will do the same with this 50k promise.
When our proposal is funded, we will launch the massive co-marketing campaigns that we have built using the "Join INLEO, Earn DASH" campaign as a framework.
The rollout plan is:
- ChainFlip integration - "Join INLEO, Earn FLIP"
- Thorchain integration - "Join INLEO, Earn RUNE"
- Thorchain UI Integrations - "Join INLEO, Earn THOR (or insert other Rune-based tokens)"
- Solana Integration - "Join INLEO, Earn SOL"
- SOL Token Integration - "Join INELO, Earn SOL-Based Assets"
- BASE Integration - "Join INLEO, Earn on BASE (Coinbase's Blockchain)"
- ... and many more!
All of these integrations will coincide with our 2025 roadmap of technological developments. The one thing you'll always know about INLEO is that we push the boundaries of what is possible when it comes to technology on Hive.
The funding on this proposal will allow us to exponentially increase our onboarding activities. I
We are constantly innovating for this ecosystem and we will bring more capital and users to Hive than have ever been here before. Fund our proposal and we will deliver like we always do.
To achieve the 20+ more integrations like "Join INLEO, Earn DASH" we need the Hive ecosystem to support us. Integrations like these require marketing and the counterparts are ready to inject tens of thousands of dollars each into their campaigns with us. We need to have the capital to do the same and match their efforts with our own (much like we did with Dash) or the partnerships may not happen.
Vote for our DHF proposal to make these partnerships a reality and help us onboard the next generation of Hivers!
Further Reading
Want to see more about what we achieved in 2024? Read our massive recap post here.
Read our recap and data dump post on how we achieved over 10k MAUs by December 31st, 2024 - as promised in our first ever DHF proposal - here.
Our newly launched Hive Aggregation Technology V2 post is live. We're aiming to decentralize HIVE trading to protect and grow the Hive ecosystem. Read more here.
The INLEO x DASH Partnership brought over 10,000 new account signups and over 50% of them have remained active to this day. You can read more about the Press Releases, X Ads and more, here.
How to signup with Keystore. Read this to understand more about how we're targeting the broader world of crypto. Click Here.
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