The Great Leofinance Reset
Everything done in life is always first an experiment before becoming a standard.
Leofinance has been an experiment, even my writing on Leo has been an experiment, when I found leofinance I didn't just think "this will work" but I thought "let's see if this works" so it was always fairly left to whatever results can be obtained from the work put in.
With leofinance I can say it's been one hell of a ride even though I wasn't here from the very beginning but if we decide to let ourselves see things clearer, leofinance happens to be the most resilient communities on Hive. One would ask, why is that? Is it because there are whales there? Is it because they know how to create a buzz? Marketing perhaps then? What really is it?
If I were to answer this question given my experience so far, I'd say that Leo is filled with realists and opportunists.
Realists
People who take life as it is, they understand concepts of reality deeply and are always ready to tackle life as it is, according to the problems it throws at them.
Opportunists
Oh boy, you just have to love these set of individuals, always waiting for the slightest leverage to take advantage of, this is practically why we've had major alpha contents on Leo, we have the bag chasers here and why they chase outside the Leo ecosystem, they also jump on opportunities to deliver within the Leo verse.
Some people are both, and having these people come together is really one of the major reasons Leo is still standing because as history would have it, it hasn't been a straight road trip, it's been a bumpy journey with dragons shooting fireballs at us at every chances and surprisingly enough, some of us still have our balls not fried(some of us don't have physical balls by the way, T for thanks) :).
The New Standard
Content they say is king, sadly content on Hive has been treated as shit for so long like it doesn't control the largest share of the rewards pool and literally all curators depend on it to regenerate income.
Well, that is about to change with Leofinance. With the development of Leothreads microblogging on Hive, Leo has discovered that the media space has a lot of money flowing, if you can get your shit right, you'll be swimming in cash. With this in mind, content on Hive can finally be assigned a secondary value not tied to inflation tokens that could actually displace the primary incentives layer in terms of returns.
LeoAds protocol is what is bringing about this reality. As per the most recent announcements, LeoAds is nearing launch which means that the Leo smart contract will soon begin leveraging the advertising revenue on leofinance to buy Leo off the markets and feed it to the community and curators within the space happens to plan prioritizing contents with high engagement rates from here on.
What Does This Mean?
It means your content will start being appreciated for what it's actually worth. No more getting lost in the crowd even when you have such a high engagement, with ads revenue consistently pumping in value into Leo tokens, your rewards on posts will be significantly higher than average and the more engagement you attract, the more potential votes you'll earn from curators.
What this also means is that you can start focusing more on your search engine optimization, because as we know, search is the biggest channel for traffic, I would know because I've been closely studying this in waits for times like this. With every optimized content, you're bound to generate more pageviews which means you'd attract more value directly from votes and indirectly from buybacks and distribution.
This is the great reset of leofinance and it's in a new and improved UI that allows you track all these things, hopefully soon there will be an integration of personalized dashboards for grouped data, this would literally turn all Leo content creators to expert analysts and lead chasers.