usage spikes and declines with the price of the token, same for similar platforms. 

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It's our responsibility to keep Leofinance buzzing with activities within and outside.

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Growing pains.  The second use case for LEO, (staking on CUB/UNI) and the now third use case (bridging ETH/BSC) means that the project itself is in great shape.  The front end has seen a dip, but I would say that will likely change as the May bulls keep running.

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Nice shout out. I'm still maintaining my consistency in writing. I write every single day. I'm not sure how I can check if my posts are adding value or not. If someone can analyze it and let me know, I can work on it. But from what I see my posts are not very popular. Maybe the topics I choose to write about are like that. I found that topics relating to Leofinance and the projects of Leofinance become a good hit. But there again like you mentioned, I think it is not good for the ecosystem. 

More generic finance content that would attract people from the other side of the world will be more beneficial in my thought. I know a few people who understand nothing about Hive but are familiar with other chains. Maybe contents covering other chains as well can be an added advantage. Don't know but these are just some random thoughts. 

I don't know how to create more visibility but I still keep going. Once in a while leo.voter will also visit my post making me happy but that is also not consistent. But I'm still motivated and energetic and will continue my journey on Leofinance. 

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Continued development is a must, even if it's just updates about what is to come. Stalled development or not relying and constantly being in front of people in this industry will cause fall off and sadly people chase money. Instead of everyone talking about DeFi and Cub they are talking about Pancake and Ethereum now. Hives team can also take a note of this as well and I'm happy to help just no idea where to start or who to talk to so I kind of just do my thing and try and promote it as much as possible.

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Lol well I never talk about leo it’s pretty much macro and BTC only that’s what I’m interested in! I leave the alt coin talk to others who are deeper into that I’d just sound like a moron not that I’d don’t sound like one now but for me learning about BTC and messing around there is more than enough to keep me bystv

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Thanks for sharing this with us. I think you're right and we should contribute in making successful the website we all love!

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I agree it was Cub Finance being the issue.  I quit using Leo finance when that came out.  To be honest, it made Leo Finance look and market itself like, "Hey, we're another fly-by-night project, after we launch a project, we move on to the next, and keep asking for investments into the next big thing."  --  Projects always looking for the next best thing, are never the best thing.  Investment gets confused and dispersed, interest dwindles.  Maybe I'll put $100 into LEO.  But then if I put $100 into LEO and Cub shows up, what I put $50 into that?  Then Kitty Finance shows up next month and I put $25 in that?  Catfish-Fi?  It diminishes the idea and slows down accumulation in the core asset.

Plus, Leo Finance was difficult enough for me to research on, the last thing I wanted to heap on that plate was learning about Cub Finance.

The best sort of alternative projects to launch are in established communities, and it needs to be an additive project not a subtracting project.

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You're right man, it's exactly like a kid with a new toy, when he gets another one he just forgets about the old one.

And although here have been very active users, others who have a greater weight in the community are not and of course the crowds follow the examples of the leaders.

So once again we can see that greed reigns over doing something sustainable and good for everyone.

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Yikes, those are some sobering visuals...

Remember the simplest way to increase the LEO token price has always been to increase traffic.

Increased traffic leads to more ad revenue, which can then be used to burn LEO and provide a floor.

I remember @nealmcspadden being one of the biggest proponents of this and even having the traffic numbers required to keep us at $1 LEO through ad burns alone.

Neal, do you mind chiming in here and adding your 2c on the issue now we're a few months further along and traffic/price is starting to slide?

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Further to this point, what happened to the content planning stuff that was being looked at?

That AI thing wasn't worth the money that agency wanted, but we need some sort of keyword research driven content plan that our literal army of content creators can work from.

Any news from the top on this?

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There is something else that happened shortly after CubFinance came to life. Official communications moved from Leofinance to other platforms, mostly. Partly, I understand that, because it takes time to write a great post, and Khal has his plate full in the dev area now. But I don't think it's the best idea to move these communications off-Leofinance. They build excitement in the community.

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>This launched, and all of LEO's momentum has stalled.

>The effort being put in dropped, noticably, once Cub came out.

These 2 statements apply equally to the developers as well as the users I feel. One of the reasons I loved LEOFinance was the effort the team put in to keep the community informed about what was going on and the inclusiveness of it.

I learned alot in the round tables, for example.

Now it's just all this "wen" stuff which gets boring fast, with the occasional update for the bigger traders who hang out in Discord.

LeoFinance used to feel like a real community with all members being important. Now it just feels like another platform with a growing gap between the "little" people and those in the know.

I still come here everyday and manually curate and learn what I can but the shine has one off it.






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I noticed the same in the stats. Working on some articles now I got free time :)


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Great post. Bit similar as what we read abou hive in general. But often the smallest communities bond best....

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You have some great points and I totally agree with you.. However, I would also add the fact that "the leo team" was **amazing** in terms of **communication** previously as well. It has been a long time since we got those "regular updates" and the "daily dose of LEO news" so to speak. Those things keeps the hype alive..

When the hype is gone, it's like starting from scratch again if you didn't had tremendous results during the hype. So that's one of the worst parts, according to me. That we stopped hearing things.

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Good feedback to bring us back to where and how it all began, always good to look after the old ones because they were here before the new. 
It's our responsibility to keep Leofinance buzzing with activities within and outside.

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You get my 0.06 LEO full vote lol. I am staking my few hundred LEO and really appreciate receiving the small rewards I get for posting on the LEO site directly, small as they are. I continue to post 3-4 a week on LEO out of 7 and  like your reminder to post our links on Twitter. 

April has been challenging for LEO it seems which is odd since it's altcoin season and we should be seeing growth. 

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I am not interested in CUB but leo yes. Leo is the foundation of all leo projects , do not forget to the first step. 

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So I stopped posting so bad that I havent even done my spinvest post... 

My time is very limited and I come here to curate and sadly... YAWN. 

Maybe I need to scroll more but I agree that things are looking a little stale. 



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Wow... I noticed Leo price is less than than of HIVE and was thinking just yesterday what happened?...

BTW...what do you mean by companies liking it a lot when people write about shit coins? 

Why there are good projects right and Leofinance is good one right. Anyway.

Excellent analysis!! 

I don't get much in Leofinance so I don't post there...but been aware its a happening place about.

I am sure it will take off.

CUB finance yeah I put stuff for farming and stuff, but I am bored, its not complete DEFI functionality atall like swaping and all and too many cool DEFI projects are already there about. 

I am thinking of taking out stuff from CUB and doing something else. Your post was a reminder of that, so thanks.

I think this is fair. I haven't posted shit since cub launched

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I think your assessment is spot on! Ironically, I only began posting and commenting here more in early April, so I'm bucking the trend a little.

I'll keep bucking the trend (despite the little time I have), and hope others will join in too! :)

EDIT: one other thing I'm wondering about here... does the rise of the POB community perhaps affect LEO's success as well, pulling away users?

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Price drives activity, when the LEO price was high more people felt compelled to write content because the rewards are higher. Activity will come back again when prices go up back to $1 per LEO.. its just a matter of time.

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I'm not in any way affiliated to leo, I have very vague idea of what it is, what's its business model, etc (yet?), especially the Cub you mentioned, so what I say now may be completely missed,  but what you are writing seems to match very well a few cases of other communities or crypto-farms I've seen earlier. The concept of "let it just grow" is really widespread, and mostly unconscious. Its damaging effect shows up almost instantly whenever a new option of "automating" or "hand it over" shows up. I guess it's something in our education, or culture, something makes us expect to be given things without effort from our side, I don't know why. But that's why all those financial pyramid schemes work so well in the beginning, and why we're seeing their smaller version, referral systems, almost everywhere. It may be somewhat far-shot, but I would even classify the whole "Proof-of-Stake X mining X inflation" idea to be very near this, as it is clearly pyramid'al, the sooner you get in, the more you get of it, but it cannot be just changed to Proof-of-Stake-and-Activity, because activity can be automated so easily :) But, random extrapolations aside, what you write sounds very plausible.