In these Steemdevnews posts I try to shine some light on development going on and around the Steem blockchain. Here's a small pinch of what's been released or updated recently. I've managed to again find some new front-ends with new use cases. I love where all this is going. A lot of these front-ends could benefit from SMTs as well.

Betsteem

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Eventhough I am not a gambling man myself, I do understand the merrit of gambling and the huge demographic that comes with it.

betsteem.com is a betting exchange powered by the Steem Blockchain where users will place bets against each other using their Voting Power.

Read more about this release>Here< by @ar2ro

HEDE

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HEDE is a collaborative knowledge sharing dictionary where you share information about anything in the universe by first defining it.

Think of it as a Steem based Wikipedia.

Read more about this update >Here< by @hede-io

Steemhunt ABV + DS voting

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Steemhunt reconfigured their Account Based Voting mechanism to better reflect their needs and be a fairer system overall. As per june 23rd

To minimise all kinds of abusing attempts, Steemhunt’s ranking system is currently using the following tactics:

• Only upvotes via Steemhunt are counted for the the hunt score.
• Steem reputation score is applied to reduce the upvoting impacts from alternative/fake accounts.
• Self voting is not counted.
• Whitelisting and blacklisting.
• Diversity Score (DS) reduces the impact of group voters.

Read more about this update >Here< by @steemhunt

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