Before now, staking $LEO token and holding LEO Power was only for curation rewards when a stakeholder upvotes #leofinance contents, and this for just 16% APY. Other strong hands were only holding LEO power with the turst that someday, maybe the value of LEO would rise again. The motivation to hold LEO power is renewed as gamifications in Project Blank begins.
Building your stake of the $LEO token is no more business as usual. Staking LEO is not the same as staking other hive-engine tokens. There is a flip in the need for Leo Power and that promises a future upwards spiral of the value of the LEO token. In this post, I try to highlight a few crucial gamifications that would place demand on LeoFinance users' build of their LEO Power.
1. More Experience Points (XPs) to win $10,000 Adoption Campaign
The LeoFinance Adoption Campaign has opened our eyes to more that holding and improving a user's LEO Power can do. Already, there are about 8 tasks with 6,100 claimable XPs associated with Leo Power and Leo Staking. These tags are tagged "#CYOA - The Visionary" and claiming all of it edges a user to a good spot in the sprint for $10,000 USD prize.
2. Gamification of Project Blank usage
In a recent tweet, LeoFinance explained Khal's reply to a user's query on editing threads as possibly a new usecase to grow LEO Power.
"Hold above X amount of LEO POWER to gain “premium” features like editing a thread on #hive’s microblogging dApp: https://leofinance.io"
That's a sweet thing to read that your LEO Power can influence the depth of a user's interaction and use of LeoFinance web3 microblogging dapp - Project Blank. That is just one of the many possibilities. A user's Leo Power can also be used to gamify other components of the microblogging dapp such as:
- Poll creation
- NFT usage
- Curation Feed Display
The curation feed display gamification was discussed in a recent Leofinance update as follows:
The next iteration of this feature will introduce a LEO POWER threshold. For example, if you hold more than 5,000 LEO POWER, you can link drop in the main feeds (when the user has it toggled on). We may also introduce some settings later on to "whitelist" certain accounts who you want to see links from.
having a user's content ranked in the dapp based on their Leo power held would certainly boost LEO Power holding as many users would want their contents to trend for easy visibility and even rewards.
3. LeoFinance Social Roles and NFTs
As of now, there are Five (5) social roles with their qualifying Leo Power in the Leofinance ecosystem as follows:
- Newborn Cub: 2k+ LEO POWER
- Cub: 5k+ LEO POWER
- Lion: 15k+ LEO POWER
- Leader of the Pack: 50k+ LEO POWER
- Apex Lion: 150k+ LEO POWER
These social roles have their benefits as explaiened by 
10 $LEO < $1 HIVE
As at the time of making this post, 1 $HIVE would buy you 11 $LEO. That is a huge discount for a token with huge and growing utility. 11 $LEO for 1 $Hive is a rare exchange rate for the mighty LEO which is powering the "everything app".
We are in the beginning of things and we hope to see some tangible rise in numbers when it comes to LeoFinance MAUs, LeoAd revenue and subsequently the rise in $LEO price which Khal predicts at 10x the present price. it is possible!
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