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 10 Steem (~$24) is available for each upvoted post.
• 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!

• Due to our limited operational capacity, new curators now start off with a nominal submission limit of 2-3 posts per week. This will be expanded for curators performing consistent and quality curation, while low quality curation will lead to lower limits. Existing curators can continue submitting as per their submission limits. More details in #curie at Steemit.chat.

• @curie's witness and operational nodes are now running v0.19.0rc3, awaiting final release and Hardfork 19.

• Our downscaling is now complete in readiness for the significant voting changes in Hardfork 19.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 117 posts at an average of 17 posts per day.

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Authors

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

@californicajun
@apprenticeoflife
@benja
@cdoll77
@gweigster
@iansart
@kemosabe
@lexiconical
@mikepedro
@soundreasoning

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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 117 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1170 STEEM paid out to curators.

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

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Curation Leaderboard

(Curators with non-zero CS)

Curator	CS	AR
alcibiades	20	100
liberosist	17.15	95
teofilex11	16	100
littlemozart	8.53	70.8
arismocyc	3	100
banglambang	2	100
jewierart	2	100
artlong	2	100
orangkaya	2	100
viviwin	2	100
dentara	1.08	60
beginningtoend	1	100
bangboy	1	100
remlaps	1	100
bangbadem	1	100
pakkeplor	1	100
jdc	1	100
alamcraft	1	100
satria	0.89	66.7
rezaabu	0.89	66.7
anefirman	0.89	66.7
walterz	0.89	66.7
hyperbolicist	0.25	50
helmilanscape	0.25	50
pamodip	0.25	50
septiyanachmad	0.25	50
ozyumari	0.25	50
clysse	0.25	50
steemlegend	0.13	25
bestofreddit	0.11	33.3
chairulfadlin	0.11	33.3
myart	0.11	33.3
mamenk	0.04	14.3
elementm	0.02	12.5

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