CUB finance - The domino effect of following your guts

An introspective look into how one thing can lead to something you had never expected.

For me, this whole journey started in 2017, right before the infamous ICO bull run. I stumbled into crypto because when I discovered the blockchain technology and I instantly thought that there must be a way to incorporate this back then (for me) 'new' technology into social media and find out a way to give back the rights of the photos and stories that people were posting on centralised platforms like Facebook and Instagram to the people themselves and not to the big corporations who got super rich of their platforms while leaving their users behind in terms of profits.

That's how I came across Steemit, I instantly made an account and started writing about the way I was (and still am) living, as a modern nomad, traveling all over the world on a very tiny budget of 9€ a day. My second post or so got picked up by curie and their vote at the time brought the value of a single post to over a 100$, that was when STEEM was nearing its ATH. Of course I absolutely loved that initial support and started to write more and more. I was able to build up a small following, but when the bear market hit and the fact that I wasn't getting a lot of interaction on my posts, my urge and drive to write began to fade.

Steemmonsters

Just when I was about to give up on the whole idea of Steem, I came across a post that said that a couple of people had a dream of creating a game on Steem, called Steemmonsters, with the concept of true ownership. That really got my attention and made me buy a large amount of Alpha packs and even led to me booking a ticket to attend the Steemfest in Krakow so I could meet the founders and figure out if they were the real deal (what an amazing four days that was, never felt so energised in my whole life during and after the event ended).

By now, you must be wondering what the hell this has to do with CUB finance, but please stay with me, I will get there soon.

I really loved being there at the start of @steemmonsters, I met quite a few amazing people thanks to the game (like @nealmcspadden, @themightyvulcano, @clove, @raynie, @bafi, @cryptoeater and many more) and that made me believe (again) in the Steem blockchain, so I invested some more. I was (and still am) one of the first 'whales' of the game. In all other crypto related things that I am involved in, I am a dolphin at best, but I will come back to that later.

HIVE - STEEM DEBACLE

Suddenly and kind of out of nowhere came the HIVE - STEEM bomb and the first thing that crossed my mind was, what is going to happen to the #Steemmonsters game? Kind of normal I guess, it being my biggest investment and reason to stay involved with Steem. The founders (Aggy being one of them) decided to move the game over to HIVE and hence I got onto the HIVE blockchain, where I still did not participate in blogging anymore, because I did not feel it was worth my time. Along comes the PAL community, set up by @aggroed and I thought, well this might be interesting, since I believe that communities play a major part in succeeding in the long term. So, I went and invested a bit in PAL, I did no go all in, because I just wanted to test it out and it was at the beginning stages of communities on Hive.

Leofinance

A bit later, I learned about a financial blogging front end on the Hive blockchain, called Leofinance and how they airdropped and equal amount of LEO to PAL holders. I did not take notice of it at first and did not really know if Leofinance would become a thing or not, but I did think that it had potential, especially because of the different reward system, the way the content was being curated and the content itself. On hive I always felt lost, for me it was too universal and #Leofinance came out with a clear vision on what the content should be about. I did however not feel that I could contribute in writing financial posts, because I am a chart analyst or financially schooled in any way. So, I stuck to curating and that made my LEO grow a little bit. I kept staking it to increase my voting power, although at 2300 LEO it did not make much of an impact at the time.

Fast forward to the new project blank that was coming out, where Leo holders were going to get an airdrop based on the amount of LEO staked in their account. This made me invest a bit more, so I swapped some ETH into LEO and reached my goal of having a total of 5k LEO staked, which is still small compared to some people, but it did make me happy to have a decent stake again in something that takes up most of my time these days; looking for new opportunities in the crypto world, wether that's a new promising coin, an #NTF art collection or a new game that is coming out. This made me realise that I could contribute to the platform by writing about the crypto related things that trigger my curiosity and hence the reason for me to write makes a lot of sense.

It feels like I have come full circle, from Steemit to Leofinance and this is where I currently belong.

Now what about Cubfinance?

Snooping around on the Leofinance blog and in Discord gives you a lot advantages, especially if you want to learn more about upcoming projects and new coins and such. So, while waiting for the blank airdrop, I heard that most likely a new product would be launched even before #projectblank would be and that it was going to be a #defi project. To be honest, it all sounded too complicated and I thought I was not going to get involved or learn about liquidity pools and staking and such, but then the announcement about #cubfinance came on Discord and the excitement in the general channel made me push myself to see if I could figure it out and get involved in a way. Thanks to the excellent detailed docs on cubdefi link here, I was able to connect my metamask to Binance Smart Chain in no time and I could receive tokens on my BSC address from wleo.io and my binance wallet, which in turn let me to become a liquidity provider on the #cubfinance platform. The best part was that during this process I got stuck because I could not see my BUSD in my wallet and @VXC helped me to understand that I needed to put in contract address into my BSC wallet to be able to see the BUSD. That's what so great about the #leofinance community, if you are stuck someone will reach out to help you and for me that's one of the main reasons why I think this project will succeed in the long run. I kind of feel proud now that I am one of the 'early-ish' adopters of Defi, Harvesting Cub as we speak and that's all thanks to Leofinance and its community.

A big thanks to the whole Leo team for making all of this possible and I have a feeling this is only the start!

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