Steemfest Recap and Exciting Announcements

Hello Steemians! The Steemit Team (#newsteemit) had a good time at Steemfest and we’re currently all back to figure pushing forward on Communities and SMTs. For those of you World Health Organization didn’t watch the livestreams (shame on you!) we tend to’d wish to update you on a number of the exciting developments that we coated at SteemFest.

Group Presentation
****We kicked things off with a bunch presentation throughout which each and every project lead spent concerning ten minutes going over what we've accomplished over the past year, what we're engaged on currently, and our visions for the longer term of Steem****.

Communities
In his Steemfest presentation, @roadscape explored his vision for the longer term of steemit.com. In his read, having the foremost powerful blockchain isn’t planning to get you terribly way if individuals can’t see what it's capable of doing. whereas some might imagine that the matter isn't enough blockchain-level options, that we want a lot of promoting, or easier sign ups, it all boils all the way down to engagement.

@roadscape believes that Communities has the potential to handle all of those core problems, however that’s a great deal of pressure to place on only one application! thus whereas planning Communities he asked himself queries like, “What will a healthy platform look like?” “What will a moderation system that serves its users look like?” “How does one shift Steem from a game individuals play to the simplest way they move with the world?” And in fact, “What may be a Community?”

He answers all those queries and a lot of within the following video and so wraps things up with a surprise announcement and demo of Communities that area unit currently in camera Beta!

SMT Wizard
In their blockchain presentation, @vandeberg and @gerbino gave a surprise demonstration of the SMT Wizard they’ve developed which can alter anyone, not simply developers, to launch their terribly own SMT in minutes! The wizard remains in development, thus it'll still restore over time, and that we commit to unleash it to the general public within the not-to-distant future.

In the following video, they launch not one, however 3 SMTs in below quarter-hour whereas explaining what they're doing. These area unit actual good Media Tokens that were created on the testnet!

Steemfest was an incredible expertise for the team and that we can’t impart @roelandp enough for all the time and energy he puts into creating these conferences as fun and informative as doable. there's no different conference within the world like Steemfest which is due in giant half to his herculean efforts.

Of course, it conjointly wouldn’t be Steemfest if not for the superb community members United Nations agency assist Roeland (shout dead set the @firepower team) similarly as attend the conference. thanks all for jutting with U.S. through the tough times.

We can’t wait until next year!

The Steemit Team