Repository
https://github.com/mcfarhat/actifit/
A. Introduction
Actifit is the new kid in the block that is catching more and more attention of Steemians. It is an innovative Dapp that rewards fitness activity! This project has already crossed the 100K SP in such a short time. How is this possible that all its SP delegations are from ordinary Steemians without the help of the great players out there? This in itself is a message of how powerful Actifit is to ordinary users like you and me.
B. Crossing the 100K SP
In the Actifit Update yesterday, (August 16, 2018), Actifit account has accumulated 98,054 SP. All this happens in the span of 7 weeks. Incredible! I supported the Actifit movement right from the beginning when it started on June 27th. I delegated 5,000 SP to support @Mcfahat who is also my colleague in Utopian. I watched their SP grew from 20K SP to 98K. Today when I saw that they just needed another 2,000 SP to cross over the 100K SP mark, I delegated another 4,000 SP to help them cross over the barrier of 100K SP. Officially at this time of writing, they have 102,696 SP. Hearty congratulations to their team.
C. Delegating SP to Actifit
Actifit hands out big rewards to everyone who delegates to their project. For every SP you delegate, they reward you with AFIT tokens EACH day. Before the 100K SP mark, the ratio was 1:1 DAILY Token reward. After the 100K SP, there is a new change and I will explain the new change in my next blog post when it is implemented. At the moment, we are not told how much the AFIT tokens are worth. But if you do a little bit of calculation, your mouth will drop to realize the huge amount of AFIT tokens you can easily accumulate without any extra effort on your part at all.
D. SP Delegation - Community use for upvoting Actifit posts
By delegating your SP to Actifit, you are helping the team to upvote daily posts created by Actifits. The more SP Actifit has, the higher the upvotes of each post. You are helping the entire community to grow.
The number of daily posts have increased from 100 to 160 in the past couple of weeks. More and more people are using the Actifit app to keep fit. Only those who make it to 5000 steps will get an upvote. For those who are able to get to 5000 to 10,000 steps, extra AFIT tokens are rewarded to them accordingly.
Already, more than 4,281 activities had been rewarded. The Actifit app actually got many people doing daily exercises to get physically in shape and fit.
E. Get AFIT Tokens Rewards
As of today, we already have 10,908 token holders. This is an incredible sum of people who are involved in this project.
Actifit had distributed more tha 2 million AFIT tokens to delegators and holders.
Are you one of them? Don't get missed on this big opportunity to gather your AFIT tokens today. As a SMT tokens, Actifit will have their own valuation per STEEM as well as FIAT currencies.
My AFIT Tokens
Take a look at my current AFIT tokens status with ACTIFIT
I have accumulated more than 129K AFIT tokens as of today. We are looking forward to the upcoming SMT testnet in January 2019 and the live version launching on March 24, 2019.
Thus far, AFIT is one of the most promising SMT project with their amazing bounty program. This is the power behind the bounty system. You can actually start earning a token long before its creation. We do not know the market value of AFIT tokens yet. I know for sure that by being a part of the early bird adopters, you will earn compounding interest with SMTs.
F. A Lesson Learned - How To Increase SP Delegation
Last week I made a mistake in increasing my delegation to Actifit. From that mistake, you would notice that Actifit updates now have the following note to all delegators:
When you want to increase delegation, you need to actually use the new total amount as the delegation amount, and not only the increased amount. Otherwise only the new amount will be used, and the remaining will be undelegated.
So important is this message that you will see the following repeated message in their updates here and here to remind all Actifit delegators how to increase the SP delegation. For this reason, I need to emphasize this message again in this blog post.
With the image on the left, you can see the mistake I made in increasing my delegation from 5K to 9K. Not knowing that Steemit delegation does not function by 'increments', I put in 4,000 SP thinking that I was adding 'on' to the already delegated 5000 SP to Actifit. By doing so, the 4000 SP actually becomes the "total amount" of my delegation to Actifit and my SP delegation actually decreased from 5000 SP to 4000 SP with 1000 SP undelegated. Instead of delegating more, I ended up delegating less.
With the image on the right, you now see that I have corrected the delegation by putting in the "sum total" of SP delegation I want to give to Actifit. I put in 9000 SP as the 'sum total' meaning that I am actually delegating 4,000 SP more to my original 5,000 SP delegated to Actifit.
A hard lesson learned: Make sure you key in the "total amount".
This is also a mistake many Steemians make in increasing their delegations. So I spend a little more time in the explanation so that we all know how to increase delegations correctly.
G. Acting as an Actifit Ambssador
My involvement in Actifit is is based on believing in the founder and the whole vision of Actifit. Actifit wants to get everyone fit and in healthy shape by rewarding people in reaching a minimum amount of 5K to 10K steps per day. Wanting to see this vision to fulfill, I have become one of their ambassadors.
The number of ambassadors is increasing. This week we went from 3 to 4. We definitely need more ambassadors to spread the word out to the different communities. I have been consciously promoting the Actifit Dapp to different Steemian platforms that I am active in. It's a joy to seem the appearing on the Discord channel taking their places in different country communities.
The following country communities are formed so far:
- Turkish Community
- Italian Community
- Indonesian Community
- Greek Community
- Indian Community
- Portuguese Community
- Nigerian Community
- Filipino Community
I know more international communities are on their way joining as many of them are waiting for the iOS version, which is in the working, and possibly ready by next week waiting for approval from Apple.
We look forward for the soon Malaysian community to join us when the iOS releases.
As these new international communities get formed, would it not be great if we can have different teams from different countries doing sports competitions in the future? That is certainly worth thinking about to increase sports activities and more engagement from Actifits all over the world.
H. Actifit Ongoing Roadmap
As an ambassador, I keep up with the ongoing development of Actifit. Almost everyday, something new is happening on the Actifit project and website.
1. Website Update
Currently the Actifit.io website has a new look. Go and sign up with them today if you have not already done so. The web developer is constantly making new changes to give users a good experience in keeping track of their activities.
You can also see the activities of others at one glance and click into their posts to view their progress.
You can also see your own activities in one glance to keep track of your own progress and the need of fitness improvement. Here is my page of activity:
2. Improvement on Graphic Images
New graphics are put in to make Actifit posts more engaging on Steemit. Definitely a big improvment is made to help identify the different activities taken.
Most of my activities are walking. In order to maintain a 5K steps, I choose to walk now instead of taking the bus. You see this image on my Steemit posts often. I love walking now.
And on those days when I have time to do exercises, I go cycling. I love this cycling graphic image.
Depending on what kind of activities you are involved in, different graphic image will show up on the post. Even shopping is counted as an activity because it is considered a moving activity. This one is certainly a good one for us ladies. Imagine, you get rewarded by shopping. Who would have ever thought of such an insane idea.
3. Uploading Images from the App
The web master is working on the function of allowing users to upload their own picture of their activity. This will really be a game changer in making the posts more engaging and motivating for everyone to read. Right now, the app does not allow you to do that and you can only add in your own image using other Steemit editors.
4. Waiting for iOS approval
As an ambassador, I know a big crowd will be crashing in once the iOS app is ready. It is now waiting for approval and once it is released, hold your breath everyone!
5. Tutorial Videos
Soon tutorial videos will be shown to new users of how to use ACTIFIT App effectively. They are now in the process of making and soon you will see them coming on the blockchain. I will possibly create a video when I find the time to do so. We have also notified many video creators in the video category in Utopian.
Conclusion
There are certainly clear guidelines and direction in moving forward to create interesting programs for Actifits users. Suggestions are welcome. Bring them to us over at Utopian-io.
Though Actifit has joined the 100K SP Club, the more delegations they get, the more they can reward all Actifits posts. Keep on delegating to Actifit. This is a community venture.
Stay tuned. All these great updates and happenings in Actifit are adding an enormous value to the Steem Blockchain.
Image Resources
All images are taken from screenshots on the Acifit site: https://actifit.io/
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