🎉 Scholars and Scribes, there’s an exciting new frontend on Hive!
And we’re going to reward you handsomely for trying it out (info on rewards below 👇).
After years of development, Leo Finance has released the Open Alpha of their “Everything dApp.” It is spearheaded by the microblogging service called Threads.
📢 Announcement post from LF is here.
🐦 Threads is basically Twitter, but on Hive
“But wait,” you might say. “There’s already stuff like dBuzz on Hive.”
This is true. But Threads is a different approach.
- 🧼 It does not create a new blog post every time you use it (keeping your feed uncluttered)
- 🚄 It has a beautifully fast and sleek interface
- ⭐ New features will roll out weekly during this Open Alpha launch
- 🦁 Supported by one of the strongest and oldest Hive communities: Leo Finance
- 🤩 Threads will interconnect to a much larger frontend vision in the future
- 🐝 Crypto rewards are concentrated in $LEO and $HIVE
Like all Hive dApps, you already have an account. You just need to sign in!
Head to https://alpha.leofinance.io/login — it works with Keychain 🙂
💸 Threads are NOT limited to Finance
Traditionally, Leo Finance has been focused on, well, finance. Crypto finance, in particular. Many people on Hive are just not interested in that stuff, and Threads understands and embraces that fully.
Which brings us to the Scholar & Scribe connection!
📣 Phase 1: join Threads and share your work!
Below are simple steps and some examples:
Step 1: Log in using Hive Keychain at https://alpha.leofinance.io/login
Step 2: Make a post, and be sure to use the #scholarandscribe hashtag in the post itself. Share a link to your stories/poems (or someone else's)
Step 3: You’re done! No step 3… I guess go explore Threads? 😁
The place to make a new thread is right at the top of the home screen. See below:
- The Home page is for Threads. That “Publish” menu at the bottom is for long Hive posts
- You use tags right in the post, instead of adding them in another place
- The orange ‘Thread’ button is what you use to submit the thread
Just type into the box! You only have 240 characters to work with, including the link URL and any hashtags you want to use. So be brief.
The content you share does not have to be new either. Nor does it have to be your own. The Threads are upvoted and assessed as their own piece of fresh Hive content 🙂
- Here's the link to all threads using the
#scholarandscribetag so you can see examples.
🎁 Rewards
REWARD 1: The Leo Finance community had generously offered to delegate a large amount of LEO tokens to a curation account:
This account will be curating (upvoting) threads that use the #scholarandscribe tag. This means you will earn some decent LEO rewards on your threads for participating. Others from the Leo community will also be dropping upvotes on good content, so don’t be shy about exploring Threads (post about whatever you find interesting, comment on others’ threads, etc.!)
👉 Note: Threads can only generate $LEO tokens and the usual Hive rewards.
REWARD 2: Anyone who participates in this effort will be entered into a raffle to win some more prizes! One entry per account, no alts please. The 
- 5x prizes of 100 SCHOLAR
- 5x prizes of 1 SCRIBE
- 5x prizes of 1 HBSI
- 1x prize of 500 SCHOLAR 🔥
- 1x prize of 5 SCRIBE 🔥🔥
- 1x prize of 5 HSBI 🔥🔥🔥
⚠️ Deadline for the raffle = payout of this post. Get threading! ⚠️
🔭 Future initiatives
You’ll notice that this says Phase 1. Here are some hints on what future phases will entail:
- Phase 2 will be about #zapfic
- Phase 3 will be about threadstorms ⚡
About the Scholar and Scribe Community
Scholar and Scribe is a creative writing community founded in the forges of Hive's passionate Pizza Guild. It sets itself part from some of the other writing groups on Hive with its unique dual-token system.
Thank you for reading. I own the license to all images in this post, except for the LEO logo and Scholar and Scribe banner icons, the latter of which were designed by @trashyomen.