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 12 Steem is available for each upvoted post. Essentially, Curie enables any curator on Steemit to give a post you like 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!

Our transition / downscaling due to voting changes in HF19 is nearly done and will be completed next week.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 123 posts at an average of 18 posts per day.

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Authors

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

@raguiler
@artguy
@creationofcare
@crystalandbones
@get-baking

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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 186 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1,488 STEEM paid out to curators.

At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 and AR of 85% to be eligible for Top 12 and a CS of 1 to be eligible for 3 submissions/day.

Curation Leaderboard (with at least 5 submissions this week >0 Score)

Curator	Curation Score	Approval Rate
liberosist	21	100
alcibiades	19	100
littlemozart	11.81	75
cotidiana	7	100
toxichan	6	100
teofilex11	5	100
m4wllt	4.41	85.71428571
freakload	2.56	80
steemgame	1.08	60
steemedia	1.08	60
jewierart	0.79	44.44444444
orangkaya	0.42	37.5
bangbadem	0.13	25
taktoys	0.13	25
helmilanscape	0.03	16.66666667

There will be only 5 curators eligible for the unlimited submissions this week.

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