HIVE NEWS @ 3 March 2021 - LeoFi Airdrop, Hive Marketing Proposal and Keychain Mobile

Hive News is back with a jamboree of great Hive related news.

LeoFinance is going all DeFi, Lord Butterfly is going all Marketing and Keychain is going all mobile.

Also in today's edition there is news about PeakD, BlockTrades, the Ledger Hive app, D.Buzz, CryptoBrewMaster and Ruslan Bolgov, dGoal and inactive witnesses.

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1. New LeoFi Products Announced by LeoFinance

Hive account@leofinance has announced details of their new LeoFi DeFi products that are launching shortly.

bLEO represents BEP20 LEO - a wrapped version of the LEO token on the Binance Smart Chain. CUB is a DeFi-based smart contract application on the Binance Smart Chain.

A snapshot of WLEO and Leo Power holders was taken earlier today for the CUB token....

• New LeoFi Products, Snapshot Announcement, CUB Tokens and BEP20 LEO

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2. Hive Marketing Proposal on the DHF

Hive account@lordbutterfly has launched a proposal on the Decentralized Hive Fund to fund a professional marketing compaign to be run by Ignite Visibility.

The marketing campaign will have multiple strands - Conversion Rate Optimisation, Influencer Marketing, Advertising on Social Media, Digital PR, and Email Marketing.

The 4 month campaign will have a monthly cost of US $24,625, with a total cost of US $98,500.

The proposal is bidding for 1620 HBD per day for 119 days to allow the funds to be gathered quickly enough.

At the time of writing the proposal has already gathered 8.72m SP of votes. 22.4m SP of votes is needed to cross the funding threshold...

• OFFICIAL HIVE MARKETING PROPOSAL - "Ignite Visibility partnership"

Ignite Visibility is a high profile, multiple award winning, top 10 US marketing agency based in San Diego...

• https://ignitevisibility.com/

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3. Hive Keychain Mobile for Android and iOS

Developer Hive account@stoodkev has announced that the first version of Hive Keychain for Mobile has now been accepted on both the Google Play Store (Android) and Apple Store (iOS)...

• Hive Keychain mobile release (Android and iOS)

Hive account@nateaguila, who did the design work for the project, has posted further about the new mobile release...

• Hive Keychain for Mobile has Landed on Both App Stores

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4. New Version of Peakd.com

A new version of peakd.com has now been released.

The new version features a new home page, availability on IPFS, post layout changes and a number of wallet improvements.

• Homepage redesign, IPFS, Layout improvements and more
  

The PeakD team has also posted in more detail about the new home page and how it promotes their focus on Communities...

• PeakD core values and home page

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5. BlockTrades Blockchain Work Update

Hive account@blocktrades has posted another update on their development work on the Hive blockchain.

Work this past week has included SQL account history plugin improvements, syncing hivemind from SQL account history plugin databases, experimenting with Postgres extensions for fork handling, and fixing some Condenser bugs.

They have also finished testing official hivemind release v1.24.2...

• 6th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software
  

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6. Finalising the Ledger Nano S HIVE application

Hive account@engrave reports that he is doing some additional work on Hive account@netuoso's Hive Ledger app so that it can get official support from Ledger.

He has been reviewing the code to ensure that it is secure and stable...

• JavaScript library for Ledger Nano S HIVE application

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7. D.Buzz Longform Content Feature

D.Buzz has released a sneak peek at a new longform content feature that is being added to their dApp...

• Sneak Peek at the Longform Content Feature Coming Soon to D.Buzz

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8. CryptoBrewMaster and Ruslan Bolgov NFT

@CryptoBrewMaster has teamed up with real world NFT artist Ruslan Bolgov (aka Hive account@axeman) to produce a limited edition NFT card...

• CryptoBrewMaster X Ruslan Bolgov cooperation | Drop announced + NFT Giveaway!

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9. New logo & Keychain Integration for dGoal

Hive account@dgoal has announced a new logo and improved Keychain integration for its Rabona Football Manager dApp...

• dGoal Update #1: An updated logo and improved Keychain integration

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10. Low Ranked and Inactive Witnesses

Top 30 witness Hive account@quochuy has produced a list of all the retired, zombie and disabled witnesses. Please make sure you are not still voting for any of these.

If you are, you might want to check out the list Hive account@quochuy has also produced of active lower ranking witnesses who would be grateful of a vote...

• List of low ranked and inactive witnesses

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Decentralized Hive Fund

The Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) today has a daily funding budget available of approximately 12,397 HBD.

There are now 16 proposals receiving funding from the DHF - Hive account@howo (core blockchain development), Hive account@keychain (Hive Keychain development), Hive account@good-karma (Hivesigner), Hive account@guiltyparties / Hive account@spaminator (Spaminator), Hive account@hivebuzz / Hive account@hivechain.app (Hive Gamification), Hive account@smooth / Hive account@hbdstabilizer (HBD Stabilization x 2), Hive account@arcange / Hive account@hivesql (free HiveSQL), Hive account@steempeak / Hive account@peak.proposals (PeakD), Hive account@ecency (Ecency), Hive account@klye / Hive account@hive.loans (Hive.Loans), Hive account@hivewatchers (Hivewatchers), Hive account@inertia (Banjo hosting), Hive account@hivesearcher (Hivesearcher development), Hive account@fullalt (HiveTips, MyAltWallet, Hive Patron), Hive account@inertia (Hive Developer Documentation) and Hive account@martibis (app development - Haveyoubeenhere, Pinmapple, Buymeberries).

These successful proposals are currently receiving a total of 8940.5 HBD per day from the DHF...

• https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals
• https://peakd.com/proposals
• https://ecency.com/proposals

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Hive account@lordbutterfly's new Hive Marketing Proposal is very much the hot proposal of the moment.

It has already gained votes totaling 8.83m HP and is only 5 spots away from crossing the Return Proposal threshold for funding.

Hive account@tarazkp has posted about why the proposal deserves support on the DHF...

• Marketing: Desperately seeking funding

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Communities & Tribes

What makes a good community?

Hive account@curatorcat has posted about what makes a good community...

• Curator Cat on the Power of Hive's Communities: Part 2 — What Makes a "Good" Community?

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Natural Medicine

Hive account@naturalmedicine has posted their weekly newsletter for Homesteaders...

• Lotus Garden Newsletter for Homesteaders. 3rd March 2021

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Contest of the Day

Tiny Earthship Design Competition

Design a tiny home that is no larger than 40 meters squared or 430 sq ft. Up to 500 HIVE for a winning design. Organised by Hive account@eco-alex...

• Join Us For The "Tiny Earthship Design Competition!"

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KEY DATA [ from CoinGecko & Hive account@arcange ]

Hive price (USD)	US$ 0.301	03 Mar '21 05.11pm UTC
Hive price (BTC)	0.00000588	03 Mar '21 05.11pm UTC
CoinGecko MarketCap Ranking	#235	03 Mar '21 05.11pm UTC
HBD price	US$ 1.12	03 Mar '21 05.11pm UTC
No. of Whales	32	02 Mar '21
No. of Orcas	296	02 Mar '21
No. of Dolphins	1813	02 Mar '21
No. of Minnows	8913	02 Mar '21
Alexa rank (hive.blog)	#27,011	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Alexa rank (peakd.com)	#27,565	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Alexa rank (leofinance.io)	#36,565	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Alexa rank (ecency.com)	#51,454	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Unique visitors (hive.blog)	138,038 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Unique visitors (peakd.com)	123,248 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Unique visitors (leofinance.io)	83,809 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Unique visitors (ecency.com)	59,159 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Page views (hive.blog)	483,133 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Page views (peakd.com)	751,814 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Page views (leofinance.io)	444,186 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC
Page views (ecency.com)	337,207 / day	03 Mar '21 04.52pm UTC

Follow Hive account@penguinpablo for more statistics.

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This is #8 (3 Mar '21) of the Hive news service.

For more Hive news check out Hive Today that comes out every Saturday...

• Hive Today - February 27th, 2021 - Busy Buzzing Devs

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