About ten days ago I announced the SHADE token which is available via Steem Engine. The token is meant to be a fun token distributed for sharing and promoting posts on the platform.

Obtaining SHADE

Information about how to earn the token can be found here

While the most direct way to earn SHADE is by participating at Pimp Your Post Thursday in The Rambleon Thursdays, there are other ways.

Community is About Sharing

I’m all about community and the power of community to empower those who participate in it. By caring and sharing within a community everyone can have opportunity to grow.

In that spirit, as I explore posts on the platform, I’ll be leaving SHADE for those who work to help others get an opportunity to be seen and to grow.

I’ve also been leaving some SHADE on new Steemians who I find have continued to post after their initial introduction post. The Intro posts get so much attention, automated and real, it becomes disheartening when the newbie posts next and there is no response.

You Can Share Too

When you have obtained 100 SHADE, you can also share it around to reward good community and newbies posting. All you have to do is type:

!SHADE xx where the XX is a number up to 5 and the token(s) will be dispatched.

Trading SHADE

SHADE can also be traded on the market at the steem-engine site

There has been some trading activity which is fun to watch. As of right now the price for SHADE is about two cents each. I’ve issued 100,000 SHADE for distribution into the market out of a total supply of five million.

So far there are 4,834 tokens in circulation.

I’ve been watching some of the new developments like Hive account@aggroed and Hive account@yabapmatt’s SCOT project which is due out in May.

I’m looking to see how this develops and am hoping to be able to create a community site for The Ramble where SHADE will rule.

So, let’s have some fun tossing some SHADE around.