The Steem News @ 20 January 2025 : Community Curators for February

Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Community Curators for February.

SteemX, the new Steem interface from @bountyking5, is now live.

Today's Steem News also includes news about SBD Market Making, the Steem Retro Cup, PUSS Coins, SteemFest Korea 2025, WOX-Helpfund, and Contests...

1. Community Curators for February

Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Community Curators for February.

Applications are invited from teams of up to three people.

For February there is a minimum SP requirement of 5000 SP for each team member.

There is also a new option this coming month for developers of games and apps to apply.

The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Monday 27 January 2025...

Steemit Update [January 20th, 2025] : Community Curators for February - Applications Open

There are applications from 2 teams so far...

https://steemit.com/created/curatorapplication

2. SteemX Now Live

Developer @bountyking5 has announced that his new Steem interface, SteemX, is now live...

Exciting Announcement - STEEMX is Live Now

SteemX is available at...

https://steemx.org/

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 #17. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

3. SBD Market Making

Following on from the recent issue with the Upbit exchange withdrawing support for SBDs, the @roadofrich witness team have continued developing their proposal for SBD Liquidity Provision and Market Making Bot Development.

If the proposal gets a favourable reaction they plan to submit the proposal to the Steem DAO for funding support...

Proposal for STEEM Ecosystem: Developing a STEEM/SBD Liquidity Supply and Market Making (MM) Bot (Part 2)

@happycapital has also been discussing the need for SBD liquidity pools...

4. Steem Retro Cup

The @Italygame and @Time.foundation witness teams have launched the Steem Retro Cup to encourage usage of their new Steem Retrogames site.

There are daily, weekly and monthly prizes to be won...

NEW CONTEST: STEEM RETRO CUP WEEK 1 - SETTIMANA 1

5. PUSS Coins

PUSS, the first meme coin of ABB (Amar Bangla Blog), continues to grow.

It is now listed on a wide range of exchanges including Poloniex, Mexc, Bitmart, Pol and SunSwap...

6. SteemFest Korea 2025

The @steemfestkorea team have posted further details of SteemFest Korea 2025 that will be held on 6 & 7 June on Jeju Island in South Korea...

(사전등록 연장: ~1/31) SteemFest Korea 2025 in Jeju (June 6~7, 2025)

7. WOX-Helpfund Donates 350 STEEM

@wox-helpfund, the charity account of the World of Xpilar community, has donated 350 STEEM to long time Philippine Steemian @bien to help cover his aunt's medical expenses...

WOX-HELPFUND donates 350 STEEM to bien to help him cover his aunt's medical expenses

8. Contest Corner

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

There are 97 contests in the latest list with over 500 STEEM in prizes...

Contest Alerts : Active Contest List on 20th January 2025

The Steemit Quiz 2025 run by @the-gorilla is now in its third week...

Steemit Quiz 2025 - Week 3

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.22	16 Jan '25 11.42pm UTC
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SBD price	US$ 4.95	16 Jan '25 11.42pm UTC
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