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 8 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!
• There has been an influx of new authors. We'll continue discovering them. Curators are recommended to focus on new authors as more established authors will now exceed the max payout limit eligibility easily.
• With the volume on the rise again, we'll start Daily Curie posts in the coming weeks, targeting two editions per week. These posts will accept payouts, but we'll go back to payout declined once the experiment is over, the payouts are stable and our operations stabilise.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 255 posts at an average of 36 posts per day. While still low, this is an increase since the previous week.

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Authors

There won't be an authors list this week as there simply wasn't a representative sample of posts curated.

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Curators

The Top 12 Curator 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 12 (or regular curation, if under-performance continues).

This week, we have upvoted 255 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 2,040 STEEM paid out to curators.

At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 and AR of 70% to be eligible for Top 12 and a CS of 1 to be eligible for 5 submissions/day. Curators with an exceptionally high Score over the month will receive a monthly bonus. Currently, the bonus pool is 1,000 Steem/month.

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

Curator	Curation Score	Approval Rate
alcibiades	41	100
liberosist	34	100
littlemozart	30.86	85.7
m4wllt	9.29	73.9
orangkaya	8.26	90.9
teofilex11	7	100
jewierart	5.98	70.6
toxichan	4.79	63.2
teukumukhlis	4.32	60
pakkeplor	4	100
majes	2.16	60
practicemagic	1.75	50
bangbadem	1.69	75
mgibson	1.65	42.9
digit	1.54	55.6
septiyanachmad	1.08	60
taktoys	0.89	66.7
cotidiana	0.55	42.9
nianursa	0.53	36.4
hatta	0.32	40
steemedia	0.32	40
alwayzgame	0.32	40
dentara	0.22	33.3
jdbry	0.1	22.2
cepas	0.08	16.7
arismocyc	0.06	25
simplest	0.02	14.3
teukuderian	0.02	12.5

There will be only 7 curators eligible for the unlimited submissions this week.

2nd Month Operations @ Streemian / curiesteem.com

According to the performance of our curators on the second month of operations in Curie's new home in Streemian, a monthly bonus will be given out to the best performers on Wednesday in proportion to their scores for the month:-

• @alcibiades (560 STEEM)
• @littlemozart (440 STEEM)

Congratulations, and thank you for your dedication to quality curation!

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