LEO 2035: The Future We're Building
For the past 6 years, we've been building LEO from the ground up. Our community and our technology have grown at unprecedented rates. To build the future I envision for LEO, we've needed an immense amount of cross-chain infrastructure. The future of LEO is a cross-chain economy that leads the charge of DEX trading platforms, Merchant Payment Processing, Social Media on the Blockchain and AI Agents. Now that LEO has been fully issued (a max supply of 30M tokens that have been widely distributed to users for the past 6 years as we grew this platform and community), we are ready to scale.
My vision for LEO in 2035 is 4 pillars contributing to one major goal: LEO's market cap to $10 Billion (~$350+ per LEO). The 4 pillars each contribute directly to this target and put LEO at the intersection of Decentralized Finance and AI Agentic Technology. Our north star as an ecosystem is to deliver economic value to the LEO Market Cap.
Most countries value their economies using a metric called GDP (Gross-Domestic Product). From today forward, LEO will measure the success of our economy in terms of Net Economic Inflows (NEI). NEI is the total $ value of inflows which flow to LEO's value capture mechanisms (buys, burns and POL perma-stake growth).
NEI = (LeoDex Fees + Recurring Premium Subscriptions + Merchant Payments Fees + AI Agent Inflows + LeoBridge Fees)
Similar to GDP, it captures the aggregate economic activity of LEO while tying every pillar's success back to LEO Demand. As new products, services and inflows are created, they organically fit into our north star mission and key performance indicator (NEI) for tracking our success and progress in achieving it.
In this post, I'll update you on LEO's plan to achieve our $10B Market Cap vision by 2035.
- LEO Market Cap to $10B ($350+ LEO)
- LeoDex to $1B/Year In DEX Volume
- LeoMerchants to $1B/Year in Payment Processing
- LeoPremium to 10,000 Subscribers
- LeoAI to 100,000 agents across all platforms
LEO Market Cap to $10B ($350+ LEO)
With a max supply (fully issued as of 2025) of 30M LEO tokens, LEO is a scarce asset. At a $10B market cap and 30M tokens, the price of LEO would be north of $333. As LEO is burned off the market (from LeoBridging fees), the price of LEO needed to achieve a $10B Market Cap rises.
For a simple example, if you had 15M LEO tokens in circulation by 2035 (because 50% were burned by LeoBridging fees), then a $10B market cap would = $666 per LEO. Assuming some amount of burns between now and 2035, we know that LEO will need to rise beyond $350 per LEO token in order to achieve our $10B Market Cap target.
The current market cap of LEO is ~$4M. Our $10B market cap goal is contingent on an explosion in economic activity that generate a wave of net economic inflows (NEI) surrounding the LEO Economy through 4 key pillars.
1). LeoDex to $1B/Year In DEX Volume
LeoDex is our flagship product. LeoDex is a decentralized exchange (DEX) interface that aggregates 6 DEX protocols (soon to be 7 and more in the future) in order to enable seamless access to the growing world of DeFi.
As of this writing, the core feature that LeoDex offers is cross-chain swaps via our 6 protocol integrations. In the coming days/weeks, we are rolling out Perpetual Futures Trading which will mark a major turning point in LeoDex's future.
Perps trade Trillions of dollars per year and have become the flagship money maker of DEXes and CEXes. Recently Hyperliquid has seen a rapid rise to success and is generating nearly the same profit as the U.S. stock market known as "NASDAQ" with 1/100th of the workforce and in just a few years since inception. The rapid rise in the vitality of Hyperliquid is a lens at the market we are aiming for. Hyperliquid's success is largely driven by their DEX Perps market.
LeoDex Swaps and Perps are just the beginning. There is a whole world of DeFi for us to tap into going forward. LeoDex itself has 4 key pillars for its future:
- LeoDex Web App -> https://leodex.io
- LeoDex Mobile App -> Mobile Trading App Coming Soon
- LeoMerchants -> Point of Sale Merchants Platform for Crypto Payments
- LeoKit -> Software Development Kit (SDK) for B2B Companies Looking to Integrate Cross-Chain Routes
Between these 4 pillars, $1B per year in total volume is a milestone we will achieve before 2035. Each $1 of volume drives revenue to the LEO Economy via the sLEO contract. Users can stake LEO for sLEO on Arbitrum and 100% of the inflows flow directly to that contract where it can be harvested by active users via https://leodex.io/leo.
2). LeoMerchants to $1B/Year in Payment Processing
LeoMerchants is our payments processing platform that we've been building. This represents the first time LEO has branched out into the physical world in terms of hardware product creation. We have both hardware and software which enables merchants to accept crypto payments. The hardware looks like a phone/tablet and allows customers to pay in any crypto while allowing the merchant to receive in any crypto.
This is a game changer for crypto payments. It is instantaneous, low-fee and cross-chain crypto settlements. As we continue to roll hardware devices and software into beta with local stores, we will refine the technology and prepare it to scale up. By 2035, LeoMerchants will be processing north of $1B/year in IRL payments. Every single TX has a 1.5% fee that is earned by the LeoMerchants system. This fee flows directly to the sLEO contract as USDC (Arbitrum).
3). LeoPremium to 10,000 Subscribers
LeoPremium generates recurring revenue for the LEO Token Economy. As it is currently designed, it gives unique features and access on the INLEO Social Media Platform. In the very near future (just a few weeks from this writing), LeoPremium will also enable access to LeoAI.
OpenAI has had massive success with ChatGPT's subscriber model. X has been building this as well with their Grok Model. There are also thousands of AI startups who are using subscription models to capture value into their company from users who want access to various AI products and services.
LeoAI will have a short-duration free trial. From then on, it is accessible only to LeoPremium subscribers. This will add a significant use case to LeoPremium subscriptions. It may also introduce a need for a standalone AI application which will require a LeoPremium subscription to access.
The future of LeoPremium is one where a majority of users signup for access to the LeoAI models and agents that we launch. LeoAI will offer unique agentic features that no other platform today offers.
4). LeoAI to 100,00 AI Agents
Tied closely with the LeoPremium vision, LeoAI has both a core LLM Model as well as Agents. Right now, we have a variety of agents doing various tasks already through LeoAI. Many of these are collecting data and feeding it in real-time to our core LLM. Data is the new gold rush and LEO's vision of capturing data is through:
- User-generated data
- Agentically-captured data
The 2nd point requires an explosion in AI Agents that capture data and feed it to our LLM. Agents are useful for essentially an infinite number of tasks. As the Agentic web takes shape, LEO's Agent platform will continue to scale. I envision a future where every human has at least 1 AI Agent (if not many) that help with a multitude of tasks depending on what you need. This future is manifested by launching LeoAI's standalone agentic app.
This app will be accessible to LeoPremium subscribers only. Premium subscribers can build, launch and scale their own agents for doing all sorts of tasks. From building websites, to accessing news to making travel plans or dinner reservations... LeoAI Agents can do anything you program them to do. The LeoAI interface will be similar to vibe-coding websites - allowing users to seamlessly build and launch Agents without any prior coding knowledge.
Net Economic Inflows (NEI)
The future for LEO has never been brighter. While our team is 110% focused on delivering the best LeoDex product imaginable, we have other pillars in the LEO Economy that are taking shape. The LEO ecosystem has expanded in a way that few could have imagined back in 2019 when we launched as merely a blogging interface.
The vision for LEO was always greater and now that the anchors have been cut off and our LEO 2.0 design has manifested to reality, we are ready for the growth phase that comes next. Our infrastructure is all in place. What comes next is scaling the LEO Token Economy to pioneer the tokenization of everything and an AI Agentic Future.
To track the success of this $10B vision for LEO, track the Net Economic Inflows (NEI). This is my KPI for tracking our success:
- LeoDex Affiliate Fees
- LeoMerchants Processing Fees
- LeoPremium Subscriptions
- LeoAI Agentic Inflows
- LeoBridge Fees
- LeoStrategy's Perma-Stake Flywheel
- ...
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It must sound insane to people outside:
I like to see those kpi getting in! We're still on launch pad
Very early days. As is typical with the early stage startup, we've needed to navigate to find our PMF and reason for existing
The vision of LEO has always been to democratize financial knowledge and access. As we've matured, the way we achieve this vision has matured as well
With the innovations in Cross-Chain DEXes and AI Agents, we now have all of the infrastructure in place to achieve our mission of democratizing financial knowledge and access in a way that wasn't possible before.
#inleo getting to real argument for "why" joining and the ecosystem.
Revenue streams make everything so much easier to sell apparently.
Are there plans to raise the InLeo Premium fee amount or is the plan to keep it at $10?
It will likely increase as LeoAI matures
Love the NEI metric
It will be a great way to track our progress and ensure we’re always doing the right thing
Everything developed should answer a simple question: does it raise NEI?
Such a good read. Thanks to you Khal and all your team, for not making me a mockery to anyone I ever marketed the LEO token or LEO-related project to. LEO is one of the projects I have so believed in since 2020, when I read the vision of LEO to democratize crypto access.
2035 will mark another big milestone. I hope by then, I will have spared the time, resources, and skills also to build something solid that leverages on this LEO economy.
Uyobong
A foremost LEO Ambassador
Just the beginning
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Is there a current subscriber count for LEO premium? This numbers all sound good and for sure would be a stretch goal that would take a lot of things happening right. What are current figures now compared to where they have to be?
https://inleo.io/premium/users
This is really very detailed and visionary updates. The way Leo has grown community and technology in six years, it is a commendable compliment. The criteria of four pillars and the criteria like NEI looks very clear and practical. If this roadmap proceeds properly then the $ 10B marketcap target is not impossible at all.
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STOPYou are a true inspiration for a Project Manager and how fast paced and agile development should be done. I don't know how you do it, but you continuously deliver while others on Hive barely spell their name in that time. Congrats and keep on going, $LEO gets ahead of its times.
I'm SO READY for that future!
Thanks for your high commitment to this project, @khaleelkazi.
It's all good what you are trying to build but we must deal with the downvoters on Hive otherwise Hive has no future and you would be better off trying to build your own Blockchain 🙏🏾
Leo and splinterlands have kept Hive alive
What's the marketing strategy to reach these goals? One thing is having these products, another is to stand out from the competition
I trust on InLeo project and wish the best for it always! Blessings to you Khaleel