Open Sourcing INLEO to Create a Hive Standard for Signups and Logins

Hive is one of the most powerful blockchains in crypto—fast, free, and with decentralized identity at its core. But one thing is holding it back: a fractured, outdated login system.

Right now, signing up for Hive is a confusing mess for new users. Every Hive app—whether it’s PeakD, Ecency, Actifit, 3Speak, Splinterlands, or INLEO—has a completely different way to sign up and log in. This means users don’t know what to expect, struggle to switch between apps, and get frustrated before they even start using Hive.

This is known by all of us to be the #1 roadblock to Hive's mass adoption.

In This Post:

1. Creating the Hive Standard – Open Source & Interoperable
2. What Does It Take to Create a Hive Standard for Sign Ups and Sign Ins?
3. Timeline to Create a Hive Standard for Signups and Logins

For the past four years, INLEO has been building a radically improved signup and login experience. Our mission is simple:

✅ Let new users sign up instantly
✅ Give them flexible login options (Keystore, X, Google, Metamask, etc.)
✅ Make Hive onboarding as smooth as Web2

This is all live and in production code on INLEO - head over to https://inleo.io/signup and try it yourself! We recommend trying the Keystore option if you've never seen it. The onboarding flow resembles Web2 but results in a user having a Web3 Hive account along with a tied-in BTC Wallet, Dash Wallet, ETH Wallet, etc.

Since 2020, we have spent a lot of time building, rebuilding and refining our sign up / sign in framework to the point where it is today.

Today, we have the most seamless way to sign up and login to Web3 with a wide range of options.

You can now sign up with Keystore, X or Google and create a Hive account instantly. As part of our proposal on the DHF, we are also adding:

1. Vultisig
2. Phantom
3. Metamask (a new & much improved version)
4. CTRL Wallet
5. WalletConnect
6. Trustwallet
7. ... and many others!

Our goal with onboarding is that when a user comes to INLEO, they have the ability to sign up and instantly sign in using their preferred method. When you look at any successful platform on the internet, they have multiple options that are easy to use. Why should Hive be any different?

Creating the Hive Standard – Open Source & Interoperable

We’re making a massive shift: INLEO is open-sourcing our entire onboarding stack and creating Plug & Play APIs so that any Hive UI can integrate a seamless, standardized signup/login experience.

This means:

• No more fragmented logins—a user can sign up once and access ANY Hive app.
• More Hive apps adopting Web2-level onboarding without reinventing the wheel.
• More user retention—because switching between Hive apps becomes effortless.

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Imagine this: A new user signs up for Hive through INLEO today with Keystore. Tomorrow, they want to use PeakD or Ecency. Instead of struggling with a completely different login system, they just sign in the same way they always have. That’s the power of a Hive Standard.

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... But open sourcing it is not enough.

INLEO will make a Hive Standard for signups and logins. The future for Hive is one where every UI and every platform on Hive has a standardized method for onboarding users and allowing them to sign in.

INLEO has and will continue to build innovative sign up and sign in methods for Hive but the problem is that signups/logins are all fragmented on Hive. When you go to PeakD or Ecency or Splinterlands or INLEO or Actifit or 3Speak or LikeTu, you are met with a completey fragmented UI for signups and sign ins.

The experience is not seamless. The experience is not fun. The experience is the furthest thing from interoperable.

As INLEO continues to add the sign up options I mentioned above, this fragmentation will only get worse. A user today who signs up to INLEO using Keystore or Vultisig or Metamask will be unable to sign in to any other Hive UI (unless we specifically teach them each UI's nuances and how to use their Hive keys to login to them - which is how we do it now).

We’ve already proven that our model works. INLEO is the #1 onboarder of new Hive accounts, and our Keystore, X, and Google logins are the most popular signup methods. But right now, those users are locked into INLEO—because the rest of Hive isn’t using the same system.

But scaling this presents a problem: all those new users are unable to use other Hive apps UNLESS they download their Hive Keys and learn about how to sign in to each app individually. Remember, each app has a fragmented login experience. So it's not linear in any sense. When you sign in to any Hive UI, you are met with a different experience each time.

INLEO will solve this by open sourcing our vertical onboarding stack and creating plug & play APIs for any project on Hive to tap into.

What Does It Take to Create a Hive Standard for Sign Ups and Sign Ins?

• Open Source Technology
• Plug & Play APIs
• Collaboration Amongst Hive Teams

Open sourcing the technology is a critical first step. If we want to create a standard for all Hive UIs, the main code base needs to be fully open source so that any UI can modify it as needed and any team can maintain it.

Creating Plug & Play APIs allows each UI to simply integrate the onboarding tech so that it "just works". INLEO will donate our resources to the Plug & Play API (Resource Credit Delegations through our dynamic RC delegation protocol and Account Creation Tokens).

The simple APIs are also a critical step in standardizing a signup/login protocol for all Hive UIs. Some UIs will want to customize the main code base and other UIs will just want a simple plug & play approach.

Collaboration amongst Hive teams must also happen. To create a standard, a majority of Hive UIs will need to come together and collaborate to integrate the standard. As the standard is more widely accepted on a handful of UIs, every other UI will follow suit and integrate as well.

Users will ask for UIs to make this integration happen. Why? Because the sign up / sign in process is much easier, better, faster and free. Having a standard means that all the new users that INLEO signs up each day and in the coming weeks, months and years can seamlessly go to any Hive Interface or Application and login.

Again, INLEO is the #1 onboarder of new accounts. Our Keystore option, X and Google options are the most popular sign up methods on INLEO.

As of right now, there is no Hive Standard. These users can only use INLEO and can't go to other Hive UIs unless they download their keys and change their login method by using those keys.

That fragmented user experience is not good and INLEO will fix it by open sourcing and standardizing our Onboarding Tech.

Timeline to Create a Hive Standard for Signups and Logins

As many of you know, the INLEO team moves quick. We want to Open Source our codebase, develop these Plug & Play APIs and release them all within 60 days of getting our DHF Proposal passed.

During that time, my DMs are open to all Hive UIs - I am already speaking with a handful of UIs who are ready to integrate this open source tech + APIs - and if you are interested, please reach out to me. I will also likely try to reach out to you.

If you believe that a Hive Standard for Signups and Logins should be created. Please consider voting the INLEO Proposal which has been updated to include:
📌 Open Source INLEO’s entire onboarding system
📌 Develop Plug & Play APIs so any Hive UI can integrate seamlessly
📌 Unify Hive’s signup/login process into one standard protocol
📌 Launch cross-chain collaborations (Solana, Arbitrum, Chainlink, etc.)

The INLEO Proposal is already at 80%, but we need your vote to push it over the finish line. This isn’t just about INLEO growing in an echo chamber—it’s about making Hive easier, better, and more accessible for EVERYONE.

• https://peakd.com/me/proposals/332
• https://ecency.com/proposals/332

Posted Using INLEO