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Our vision for the LeoVerse has expanded and changed quite dramatically over the past 12-18 months. We've seen a full-scale change in what is possible for us and where we are headed.

Elon taking over Twitter showed us that we were knocking on the right door. We were talking about Project Blank over 2 years ago!

The idea of Project Blank was initially to launch Microblogging on Hive. Then we realized that the LeoVerse encompassed so much more than just microblogging... We have the insane potential to build something much, much grander than that.

The Everything App. An all encompassing application on the Hive blockchain that focuses on:

- Microblogging (Twitter)
- Long-Form Articles (Medium)
- Communities (Reddit)
- Decentralized Voting (Nowhere)
- Payments (Venmo, Zelle)
- Subscriptions (Substack)

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Many of these features are ALREADY Live.

If we had given you this list of features 12 months ago and said that in a year, these would be available on LeoFinance.io, would you have believed us?

Probably not.

Against all odds, we have delivered. And we are continuing to deliver as we scale up, improve and add features to the existing application while also building the next generation of features.

Today, we'll focus on our vision for Communities.

## Introducing Decentralized Reddit on Hive | The Communities Vision on Leo's Everything App
 
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Our vision for Communities is to offer - what is now a really popular conversation thanks to the recent Reddit API bans - a decentralized Reddit alternative. 

Reddit has become a super popular place for various levels of discussions around all sorts of topics.

The fundamental premise is that anyone can create a Subreddit. A Subreddit can then have moderators and then also build out a base of content that can be muted or re-arranged as the moderators see fit.

Hive had this vision and launched the base-layer protocol for Communities but no UI has stepped up to really carry the Communities protocol to the finish line.

In our opinion, the Communities tech stack is ripe for a makeover on the frontend.

If we can make a truly beautiful and intuitive frontend for communities, I believe we can completely change the game for this Reddit alternative built directly on Hive. 

We've just released an initial version of Communities. This is pretty bare bones at the moment, so bear with it as we continue to build out the feature stack.

Right now, you can view Communities by hitting the menu on the left "Communities".

This will take you to the homepage for Communities where you can search for a Community or scroll by the most popular.

Favorited Communities that you're a part of, communities of people you've engaged heavily with, community leaderboard battles and more are all on the way.

## Community Leaderboard Battles and Threads on Communities

Two major things here. We ran a massive marketing campaign where we gave away **$10,000 USD to Hive community members** who participated in a wide arrange of challenges to help us promote and grow the all new https://leofinance.io UI. 

This Zealy campaign showed us that we have a lot of untapped potential in gamifying the LeoFinance.io UI experience.

We're building an innovative new Leaderboard page that will encompass gamification directly on Hive through LEO's UI.

To relate this to communities, there will be weekly Community Battles. We'll pit Communities up against one another to see who can:
1. Engage more
2. Distribute more upvotes
3. Deploy the most data
4. Generate the most external link clicks
5. Generate the most views
... and more!

This will be a Weekly Battle between Communities. The Community that wins each week will gain a MASSIVE prize pool. EVERY SINGLE WEEK.

Gamification is inbound, frens. 

Also related to this is Threads on Communities.

We've been asked wen other UIs and Communities will gain access to Threads. All of the data lives on Hive, of course, but to leverage our UI and build with us, Communities will be able to build out Threads on their own pages.

What does this mean exactly?

Right now Communities only have long-form posts.

In the next major update, Communities will get their own Threads feeds. It will be connected to all the other Threads feeds, but on the Community Page, the moderators of that community can moderate their own feed, share it with their users, etc.

Active Hive Communities who want to work with us on this can reach out to @leogrowth on Discord and sign up for early access - if you sign up, a big LEO POWER delegation might just be waiting for you and your community on the other side.

## The Vision

We are thrilled to deliver this. As we said Communities are currently just showing Long-Form Posts but soon, they'll have all of the above features and more.

Reddit users will be happy to jump into Communities and realize that they have all of the things they had on Reddit + the benefits of Web3 thanks to Hive's immutable accounts, zero fee transfers and fast & scalable blockchain database.

See you lions on the moon.

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## About LeoFinance

LeoFinance is a blockchain-based Web3 community that builds innovative applications on the Hive, BSC, ETH and Polygon blockchains. Our flagship application: [LeoFinance.io](https://leofinance.io) allows users and creators to engage & share micro and long-form content on the blockchain while earning cryptocurrency rewards.

Our mission is to democratize financial knowledge and access with Web3.

**Twitter**: https://twitter.com/FinanceLeo
**Discord**: https://discord.gg/E4jePHe
**Whitepaper**: https://whitepaper.leofinance.io

## Our Hive Applications

**Join Web3**: https://leofinance.io/
**Microblog on Hive:** https://leofinance.io/threads
**Delegate HIVE POWER**: [Earn 16% APR, Paid Daily. Currently @ 2.8M HP](https://hivesigner.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=leo.voter&vesting_shares=1000%20HP)
**Hivestats**: https://hivestats.io
**LeoDex**: https://leodex.io
**LeoFi**: https://leofi.io
**BSC HBD (bHBD)**: https://wleo.io/hbd-bsc/
**BSC HIVE (bHIVE)**: https://wleo.io/hive-bsc/
**Earn 50%+ APR on HIVE/HBD**: https://cubdefi.com/farms

## Web3 & DeFi

Web3 is about more than social media. It encompasses a personal revolution in financial awareness and data ownership. We've merged the two with our Social Apps and our DeFi Apps:

**CubFinance (BSC)**: https://cubdefi.com
**PolyCUB (Polygon)**: https://polycub.com
**Multi-Token Bridge (Bridge HIVE, HBD, LEO)**: https://wleo.io



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