The LeoFinance Podcast

Another day, another LeoFinance Roundtable about Wrapped LEO (wLEO). The community is gearing up as we approach this week’s launch and the questions keep flowing in.

There are a lot of questions about LEO, our new interface, Wrapped LEO, Uniswap, Ethereum, etc. In these roundtables, we’ve been collecting these questions and exploring them and others live on the show. These have been a big help for a lot of people - especially those who don’t have much experience with crypto outside of the Hive blockchain.

The nuances of Ethereum bring a lot of opportunities for LeoFinance and the LEO token but they also bring a lot of questions. Hopefully these roundtables have helped you as we approach the launch. We’re also clipping the nuggets of content out of each roundtable and posting them on Hive/in the new wLEO repository on LeoPedia.

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This episode of the LEO Roundtable podcast was streamed live yesterday. We talked about the basics of Ethereum and explored the UI of Uniswap while preparing for the upcoming wLEO launch event.

wLEO represents our community’s breakout into the world of crypto beyond just the Hive eco chamber. Hive provides a lot of opportunities and the blockchain technology is unparalleled in terms of allowing our community blogging interface to serve on-chain content and distribute LEO tokens to users who create and curate that content.

With that said, the Hive-token protocol that we’re using doesn’t allow us to be easily listed on exchanges outside of Hive. This is why the wLEO bridge is so valuable to our community. The wLEO bridge allows us to step outside of Hive and get listed on nearly any exchange in the crypto space — this is because wLEO is a LEO token equivalent (essentially acting as a pegged token) and is built using the ERC20 token protocol on Ethereum.

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The LeoFinance community and LEO token economy are undergoing some major upgrades in the coming weeks. We’ve announced that tomorrow will mark the launch of the new LeoFinance beta interface - featuring the Hive blogging UI that we’ve built from the ground up.

Shortly after the new interface launches, we’ll be launching the wLEO token on the Ethereum blockchain which we’ve mentioned in a few posts already. The wLEO launch is highly anticipated and a lot of people are either very excited about the launch or very confused - and in most cases, a bit of both.

In this episode, TM4450 and I run through some of the top questions surround wLEO and many of the other developments surrounding the LeoFinance platform:

LeoFinance is a blockchain-based social media community for Crypto & Finance content creators. Our tokenized blogging platform (https://leofinance.io) allows users and creators to engage and share content on the blockchain while earning LEO token rewards. Learn more about us at https://leopedia.io/faq.

Wrapped LEO (wLEO) is coming and we’re all preparing ourselves for what’s going to happen to the LEO token economy. A lot of LeoFinance users and LEO token HODLers are trying to figure out exactly how to navigate this uncharted territory as we venture out from Hive and explore the Ethereum blockchain, Decentralized Exchanges and DeFi protocols.

This whole DeFi industry is emerging and growing fast. The key is going to be the coupling of fundamental developments with FOMO. As people FOMO into the coins that are listed on Uniswap (which wLEO will soon join the ranks of), we truly need to see fundamental development that warrants the speculative increases in price. Without fundamental developments, you’re just holding a speculative asset that isn’t worth anything outside of the bubble.

As the launch of wLEO gets closer, we’re answering many of the fundamental questions that arise. Users on Hive and LeoFinance are wondering about how to get involved, what it does for the LEO token economy, how the LEO price will be impacted and more.

One of the main questions we’ve been seeing is: What’s the Point of Wrapped LEO? Why would you create an ERC20 token?

Launching an ERC20 token equivalent of LEO has always been in the back of our minds. The way that LEO is currently structured means that the ability for outside investors and potential users to get a hold of LEO and participate in the LeoFinance platform is **limited to people with Hive accounts**.

By adding an ERC20 token bridge between LEO and wLEO, we're effectively opening up the floodgates to potential investors, users and speculators. At the start, this means that wLEO will be listed on the most popular DEXes like Uniswap and will soon branch out into other protocols like Balancer.

We talk about all of this and more in today’s LEO roundtable podcast.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/saslknpp

This is one of the longer LEO Roundtables that we’ve ever done, but more importantly: it’s the first Live podcast that we’ve done as well. Threespeak recently updated their live-streaming platform and it worked like a charm. We had a few people join us in chat and there were no delays, no dropped frames and no lag.

Streaming was a great experience and we’ll definitely continue to stream the roundtables each week on threespeak. We’ll also look to multi-stream it on Twitter and possibly Facebook/YouTube to try and bring in a wider audience to Hive and LeoFinance.

We covered an incredibly wide range of topics during this show but we had a heavy focus on crypto and DeFi.

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https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/perspixe

What an episode! In this LEO Roundtable podcast, we covered just about every tradable asset and sector under the sun. @rollandthomas led the show and took us through detailed analyses of the largest global sectors.

We started the show talking about the U.S. dollar. The dollar has been getting weaker and weaker thanks to Fed policies and the coronavirus. There is a lot of uncertainty out there and plenty of volatility, but the markets seem to be getting led higher by big tech.

**The big picture question** that I think we continued to touch upon throughout every single analysis is about sector rotations. Will the current trends related to big tech leading the market, the dollar getting weaker, commodities rallying, etc. continue or will we s    ee a major sector rotation on all fronts?

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/xxpuhjbr

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Over a month ago, I found the Bitcoin collateral loan product by BlockFi and decided to give it a try. Collateral loans have spiked in popularity with the latest DeFi boom in crypto. Now, everyone seems to be trying to collateralize their crypto positions to take out a loan and gain instant liquidity.

There are pros and cons to every collateral loan product - whether you’re using a centralized or decentralized protocol. BlockFi offers a professional experience and feels more like using a new-age bank than using a decentralized protocol to collateralize crypto.

With my experience in decentralized loan protocols, I decided to give a centralized loan protocol a shot and see what the pros and cons are. After using BlockFi’s loan product, I can say that there are clear reasons for using either decentralized or centralized loans. For my personal portfolio, using a mix of the two types of loan products makes perfect sense. In this episode, I explain the BlockFi loan product, how it works and the pros and cons between CeFi and DeFi.

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Hey everyone, here’s the latest roundtable that we recorded. It took me a while to edit it and reprocess the video, but it was just recorded a little over 1 week ago. We focused on our trading habits, especially as it related to the stock market.

We kicked off the talk by looking at the dark energy crystal (DEC) token on Hive-Engine and how we’re trading the latest dip in price. From there, we talked generally about trading and the risk of being unfocused in which industries you trade.

After that, we did a deep dive on Neal’s trading strategy for the SPY. He’s ran some extensive research on the SPY to find a way to trade specific openings and it was really interesting to see how he worked through the math to create and refine his model.

The last hour of the talk focused on options trading and credit spreads - since we’ve all gotten a lot more heavily involved in that arena.

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Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/yrkevjhh

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In a world of disagreement and disarray, there is one particular thing that we can all agree on: technological progress.

Technology is progressing forward. New innovations are continuously being released and old industries are being transformed. The questions of how much change is actually happening, where that change is occurring and how that will impact our society are all up for debate.. but the fact of progress itself is not.

In this episode of Tech Talk, @taskmaster4450 and I jump into the details of technological innovation. He kicks it off by asking my opinion about the future of our world by 2035 and how technology will impact daily living.

From there, we dive deeper into various topics surrounding that overarching question.

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We leave it off by debating over the idea of a dystopian future versus a utopian future. There are many people who fall on both sides of this argument and there are varying reasons as to why the future is moving one direction or the other.

Closing out the episode, we call upon you (the audience) to leave a comment below and tell us why you think the future will be utopian or dystopian and why you believe either is the case.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/mbvhnskt

This episode of the LEO Roundtable was a journey. We kicked it off talking about the stock market and how everyone and their mother seems to have become an overnight day trader.

From there, we talked about crypto adoption. Why are so many average people flocking to the equity markets to “gamble” with their extra time and stimulus money rather than going to crypto where they can work “against” the establishment and have an easier signup process (as opposed to opening a brokerage account).

@scaredycatguide (Mitch) posed a great question: is this an indication of the nascency of crypto and why mass adoption is further than everyone expects?

Show Notes: 

https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/hksjxahl

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