The Steem News @ 15 May 2023 : Community Curators for June - Applications Open...

Steemit is inviting applications for Community Curators for June.

The Steemit Engagement Challenge has now reached Week 5 of Season 9.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Power Ups & STEEM Burns, AVLE, SteemPro, Steem Watcher Portal, Steem Layer 2 Smart Contracts, Steemit DIP, Instagram Marketing, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Community Curators for June

Steemit is inviting applications from anyone who would like to become a Community Curator for June.

Applications are invited from individuals rather than teams, and again there will be no specific themes for the individual teams.

Team Millionaire, for contests, and Team Newcomer, for newcomers, will both be continuing.

Competition for Curators places will be tougher for June as Steemit has moved to smaller teams with only four members each.

The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Monday 22 May 2023...

• Steemit Update [ May 12th, 2023 ] : Community Curators for June - Applications Open

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2. Engagement Challenge - Season 9 Week 5

The Steemit Engagement Challenge has now moved on to week 5 of Season 9.

The 5th week of Season 9 has contests about the internet, becoming an entrepreneur, seeing is believing, a chance to be reborn, perfect home menus, mountains to climb, and cryptocurrency mining...

• Steemit Update [ May 15th, 2023 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 9 - Week 5

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Pennsif the Witness

After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.

I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness

If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.

You can read my full witness announcement here...

• pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post

@pennsif.witness is now at #19. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. Power Ups

The latest stats from @remlaps this week have revealed a small decrease in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.

The past week has seen a 76K (0.04%) decrease to 173,508,846 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $33,627,575...

• Steem Total Value Powered Up - $34 million - May 14, 2023

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@remlaps continues to track the impact of Steemit's burnsteem25 campaign encouraging people to set a 25% beneficiary to @null to reduce the amount of STEEM, which potentially will increase its value.

In the past week there were 3,626 SP in burned beneficiary rewards and there were 1,235 burnsteem25 posts.

The total burnt since June 2022 has now reached 169K SP, 113K STEEM, and 1,146 SBD...

• Burned tokens, rewards, and inflation summary May 13, 2023: 169K SP, 113K STEEM, and 1,146 SBD burned in 52K burnsteem25 posts

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4. AVLE Update

Witness developer @etainclub has posted further updates on the progress of his new AVLE Steem Store...

• [SteemApp] Steem Store development Status (May 15th)

• Modifying Coupon Posting UI

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5. Developer Updates

Developer @faisalamin been making a number of performance improvements to the SteemPro Mobile App...

• Minimizing Network Requests, Better Performance, Reduce API call in SteemPro Mobile App

He has also been exploring the Steemit Condenser...

• Rewrite Role Levels in Typescript | Steemit Condenser Official

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@bountyking5 has added an Account Transaction History tool to the Steem Watcher Portal...

• Steemit Funds Transection History Tool - Steemit SDS API

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The @roadofrich Blokfield team are continuing their work on the Steem Layer 2 Smart Contract system as a replacement for the now defunct Steem-Engine...

• STEEM Layer 2 (STEEM VM) Smart Contract system construction

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6. Steemit DIP Updates

@upvu.witness and their developers @realmankwon and @happyberrysboy, have given progress updates on their API Endpoint Project being funded through the Steemit Development Incentive Program...

• [Steemit DIP] 1. API Endpoint Project (Progress Report 2)

• [Steemit DIP] 1. API Endpoint Project (Progress Report)

• [STEEM DIP] Development Progress Report #1

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7. Instagram Marketing @solosteemit

Steem Rep @franyeligonzalez has posted a third weekly progress report on the Instagram marketing program she is running with fellow Rep @josevas217.

They are promoting Steem through the @solosteemit Instagram account...

• Preview of the Instagram account for Steemit - solosteemit (Report 3)

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8. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.

There are 86 contests in the latest list with over 650 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 15th May 2023 - Win 650+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.20	16 May '23 1.15am
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#277	16 May '23 1.15am
SBD price	US$ 2.29	16 May '23 1.15am
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	151,881 / day	16 May '23 1.15am
Page views (steemit.com)	248,072 / day	16 May '23 1.15am

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This is #497 (15 May '23) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]