In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.

• For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us in #curie on Steemit.chat.
• All curators on Steemit are cordially invited to submit posts to Curie at http://curiesteem.com. A finder's fee of 10 Steem (~$15) is available for each upvoted post. Essentially, Curie enables any curator on Steemit to give an exceptional post a whales' upvote; and in return, you receive a whales' curation reward. All without investing a million dollars :)
• Follow @curie's votes to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a Streemian user, @curie is an available trail to follow.
• Remember to follow and interact with authors that you love going through The Daily Curie.

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News and announcements

• Curie continues to participate in the no-whale voting experiment. We are continuing with a limited operational capacity. More than 80% of Curie's votes today is accounted for not by whales but by the 150 minnows and dolphins following our trail. Thank you for your support!

• Due to our limited operational capacity, new curators now start off with a nominal submission limit of 3 posts per week. This will be expanded for curators performing consistent and quality curation, while low quality curation will lead to lower limits. Existing curators can continue submitting as per their submission limits. More details in #curie at Steemit.chat.

• @curie's witness and operational nodes are now running v0.19.0rc2, awaiting final release and Hardfork 19.

• From this week, @curie will start resteeming exceptional posts. We hope you'll support these posts with your comments and votes.

• Our downscaling is now complete in readiness for the significant voting changes in Hardfork 19.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 80 posts at an average of 11 posts per day. Due to limited account creations and thus new authors last week, the number of posts curated has declined. However, the account registrations are in full swing now, and we are set to hit our target of 15-20 posts per day this week.

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Authors

The top authors recommended by our curators this week are:-

@adaptnetwork
@forty-two
@mattie.b-leaver
@ribalinux
@steveitt
@tombalistreri

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Curators

The Top Curators list will dynamically change every other week depending on performance. Anybody will be able to rise up the ranks with consistent, quality curation. Inconsistent, low-quality curation will result in dropping out of Top curators list(or regular curation, if under-performance continues).

This week, we have upvoted 77 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 770 STEEM paid out to curators.

At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 and AR of 85% to be eligible for unlimited submissions and a CS of 1 to be eligible for 3 submissions/day.

Curation Leaderboard

(Curators with non-zero CS)

Curator	CS	AR
liberosist	34.00	100
alcibiades	17.00	100
teofilex11	7.29	90
littlemozart	7.00	100
fiveboringgames	2.00	100
kevinwong	1.00	100
awesomianist	1.00	100
elementm	0.75	50
riyansyahbp	0.32	40
culinaryevening	0.25	50

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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund Curie.
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