Steem.DAO UI Live on SteemitWallet

in #steemdao5 years ago (edited)

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Hello Steemians, we’re happy to announce that our user interface for the Steem.DAO/SPS is now live on steemitwallet.com.

Steemit & Steem.DAO

You can now vote for your favorite Steem proposals without leaving the safety of steemitwallet.com. These changes went live last last afternoon. While this was tested extensively in our development environment, we have continued testing the UI, along with a number of community members, to ensure it is functioning as intended. If you find any bugs, let us know about them in the comment section below. You can find the new proposals interface at: steemitwallet.com/proposals.

Update on Programmatic Selling

We will not be selling any STEEM this month. We have continued to improve revenue generation through ads while lowering our expenses, but we are still a long ways from covering our operating costs 100%. That being said, we have put ourselves in a position where we can pause programmatic selling, as we are this month. This is a very important benchmark for us because it was not something we were in a position to do just a few months ago.

New Ad Sales Hire

We have recently added a new advertising sales manager to ramp up direct sales and have switched to BuySellAds which is starting to pick up more bidding networks. With these changes we believe we will continue making progress toward generating enough revenue to cover 100% of our operating costs. But until that day comes, we will still be reliant on some degree of programmatic selling, which is why we could go back to selling STEEM in October.

Steem.DAO!!!

It’s important to remember what a big deal the Steem.DAO is. While the hardforks that added the Steem.DAO to the blockchain were difficult, the Steem.DAO itself has been functioning very well since the moment it was added. Many proposals have already been submitted and two great proposals are already being funded.

Top 3 Proposals

The top 3 proposals displayed on our UI tell an interesting story as to how the DAO is currently functioning to ensure that only deserving proposals receive funding, and the different ways the system can be leveraged by you all.

Developers Portal

The proposal with the most “VESTS” (the unit for measuring the amount of stake behind votes) was drafted by former Steemit team member @inertia who has consistently made great contributions to the Steem Developers Portal. In order to ensure he can continue making these contributions he has requested 130 SBD a day for 29 days, from the Steem.DAO and because his proposal has received sufficient VESTS (stake-weighted votes) the Steem.DAO has begun paying him in Steem Dollars (or “SBD”) for his valuable work.

Feature Funding

The proposal with the second most VESTS is from the @steempeak team. They requested 375 SBD total to add two new options to their front end user interface for Steem: steempeak.com. And today they announced the release of those features, making them the first to release features which were funded by the Steem.DAO. Through their interface users can now choose to either burn the STEEM rewards from their post, or donate them to the Steem.DAO.

The reason this is important is because it demonstrates that the Steem.DAO does not have to be used to fund the development of features for Steem or steemit.com (though it certainly can be). The Steem.DAO is a decentralized funding mechanism which distributes a liquid stablecoin. The possibilities are limitless.

Return Proposal

Steem Witness @gtg, whose activities during the recent hardforks were invaluable, created the proposal which now has the 3rd most VESTs. This proposal, however, is quite different from the others. It asks for 240 million SBD per day!

The Return Proposal does this for a very good reason. This doesn't mean it will actually receive that amount. It will receive whatever funding is left over once the proposals above it have been paid. The remaining funds are then returned to the Steem.DAO funding account.

More Steem.DAO Funding

@gtg has set up the proposal so that the account which receives the funding is the Steem.DAO itself. Practically speaking, what this means is that a proposal has to receive more stake-weighted votes than the Return Proposal in order to receive funding, as was the case with the proposals by @inertia and @steempeak.

The reason @gtg’s proposal requests so much funding is to enable Steem stakeholders to express their belief that Steem Dollars can be put to better use in the future by the Steem.DAO, rather than being awarded to any of the current proposals that receive fewer stake-weighted votes. In other words, the Return Proposal’s #3 position is an expression of the fact that, as of this moment, Steem stakeholders do not believe that the lower ranked proposals deserve funding. But they could be wrong!

Get Out and Vote

That’s why it’s so important to head on over to a user interface for the Steem.DAO and cast your votes for the proposals you believe deserve funding. Every vote helps and if you believe that a proposal deserves more attention, you can always write a post about it using steemit.com! Currently, even the top proposal has not received as many stake-weighted votes as even a top 100 Witness, so we can definitely do much better as a community.

Our new Steem.DAO user interface is just an MVP (minimum viable product) which we intend to improve over time. If you are a developer who would like to help improve that interface, you can head on over to the github repo for our wallet.

The Steemit Team


P.S. If you'd like to create a proposal for the Steem.DAO, you can use the interface created by community member @dmitrydao steemproposals.com. As this is a 3rd party application, we can not attest to the security of this application.

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Woah, this is one of the best updates I've read in a long time. Great job to the Steemit team!

I agree! I'm excited to see what will happen to STEEM this month without the 800,000 that is usually sold off.

Nice update! Short, sweet and to the point.

Congratulations on being able to skip a month of selling. While I don't really mind the selling, I hope others will be excited about this.

So glad you guys are managing to generate some revenue outside of selling Steem. That's a big deal for all of us.

Top work all around, folks. This doesn't just bode well for the price in the short term; but also reflects really well on the ongoing viability of Steemit INC. Great news.

Please add support more tags for steemit.com

This is a brilliant update. However, I do have a question: Assuming a user wants to publish a proposal, how should they go about it?

We recommend checking out steemproposals.com if you'd like to create a proposal.

Thank you so much for mentioning Steem Proposals website. Regardless security, it's open sourced so you or anybody in Steem community can do a security check if that's your concern. I used Keychain and Steemconnect so I'm not even interacting with private keys which is a beautiful part.

We will not be selling any STEEM this month. We have continued to improve revenue generation through ads while lowering our expenses, but we are still a long ways from covering our operating costs 100%. That being said, we have put ourselves in a position where we can pause programmatic selling, as we are this month. This is a very important benchmark for us because it was not something we were in a position to do just a few months ago.

This is cautiously bullish. I wish you success.

This is good news, but better would be if we had a plan to actually raise the value of Steem. So far they are cutting costs but not increasing the price of Steem. Cutting costs stop the bleeding at least but I hope with Steem DAO it is used in a responsible profit driven manner rather than to just throw money at code.

Lots to be said with this post thanks! Any period where STInc doesn’t have to sell Steem to keep things moving is a huge win in my book considering there were layoffs last year. Looking good!

Wow @steemitblog ...

"We will not be selling any STEEM this month."

... how exciting is that? Okay, so open and honest that not yet fully sustainable, but what a wonderful symbol of progress! 👍

And ...

" And today they announced the release of those features, making them the first to release features which were funded by the Steem.DAO."

... we have our first approved and already delivered proposal by the awesome @asgarth and the @steempeak team!! 👍👍

Sure nice to receive such an encouraging report. Keep up the great work!!!

OMFG!!!! The Update on Programmatic Selling is so good it deserved it's own post. I have no more Steemit complaints, I consider you guys to now be one of the most responsible blockchain stewards in crypto and feel better about holding such a large stake.

Kudos again and thanks for listening to feedback.

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