The Steem News in 10 posts @ 8 April 2019

A big day on the Steem ranch...

Steem Monsters partners with TRON, Steem Monsters raises $100K.

Steemhunt smashes the IEOs and now goes bounty hunting.

And we have Steem Churn, DrugWars, PORT Tokens, ImpactN, dPoll, NextColony, dTube.Forum and Ithaca.

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1. Steem Monsters partners with TRON

Steem Monsters has announced a major partnership with TRON.

Steem Monsters has partnered with the Sesameseed organization who are the top block producer on the TRON blockchain. Sesameseed runs a crowdfunding platform called SEEDGerminator which allows projects to raise funding from the Sesameseed and TRON community.

The funds raised from the SEEDGerminator campaign will be used to create a new front-end website for the game which will be integrated in certain ways with the TRON blockchain and various TRON wallet software.

There will be a gradual rebranding of Steem Monsters to the new non-chain specific name of Splinterlands.

The game will continue to be based on the Steem blockchain.

• Tron ventures into the Splinterlands!

• SEEDGerminator introduces: Splinterlands

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2. Steem Monsters raises $100,000 in 27 hours

Steem Monsters has raised $100,000 through a Steem-Engine Security Token Offering.

Steem Monsters created a SMTT token (Steem Monsters Team Token). In 27 hours US$ 100,000 was raised through sales of the token to less than 10 investors.

• Breakthrough! Steem Monsters raises $100,000 in 27hrs through a Steem Engine Security Token Offering!

• Steem Monsters Completes First Ever Security Token Offering on Steem!

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3. Steemhunt begins Market-Price-Pegged HUNT Bounty program

Steemhunt has now completed its impressive run of Initial Exchange Offerings with each round selling out in minutes or even seconds. Listing of the HUNT token will begin on the Daybit exchange in the next few weeks.

The innovative market-price-pegged HUNT bounty program has now begun. The program includes annual returns to delegators of 20% through a mix of STEEM, SBD and HUNT tokens.

• Steemhunt IEOs Finished Successfully, 1st Week of Market-Price-Pegged HUNT Bounty | Sponsor Report - #51

If you want to know the back story of Steemhunt check out @jayplayco's well presented history...

• [Steemhunt] History of Steemhunt

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4. Steem Churn Rate for January - March 2019

Witness @paulag has published another quarterly analysis of the churn rate on Steem.

There are a number of approaches to calculating the figures that give better, or worse, churn rates...

• STEEM Churn Report Q1 2019

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5. Revenue and Transaction analysis publised for DrugWars

Economist @blockchainstudio has presented a thorough analysis of revenue and transaction data for DrugWars.

@blockchainstudio concludes that "Drugwars may need some changes to survive" but notes that the team is working hard to bring in more changes to the game.

• Drugwars - revenue and transaction analysis

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6. PORT Tokens launched for dApps signups

A new token PORT (Proof of Referral Tokens) has been launched to reward people for signing up to dApps on Steem.

DApps in the scheme so far include @steemmonsters, @magicdice, @steem.ninja, @drugwars and @kryptogamers.

• Introducing PORT - Proof of Referral Tokens

• Kryptogamers Added to PORT Tokens!

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7. ImpactN selected for the UN SDG Global Festival of Action

@impactn has been selected from among 500 applicants to be a partner at the United Nations SDG Global Festival of Action taking place in Germany in May.

ImpactN will be showcasing how they have integrated the Steem blockchain into their global collaboration platform.

• United Nations SDG Global Festival of Action – Steem is part of it this year

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8. Community Polls feature added to dPoll

Developer @emrebeyler is adding a Community Polls feature to @dpoll.

• dPoll development update: A small step for the communities

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9. Second NextColony sci-fi RPG Story Contest launched

NextColony are supporting a second Sci-Fi RPG Story Contest organised by @art-universe.

@oliverschmid of NextColony is providing a prize pool of 50 STEEM.

• NextColony SCI-FI "RPG Story Contest" #2

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10. Where to stay for the DTube.Forum in Barcelona

The DTube.Forum team have published a list of hotels and hostels near the event in Barcelona in May.

• PLAN YOUR STAY AT DTube FORUM 2019 | RECOMMENDED HOSTELS & HOTELS

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BONUS #1. Steem comic creator gets good press for Ithaca

Steem comic creator has been generating publicity for his new comic 'Ithaca' in the local press...

• 1920s Ithaca sets the scene for Lovecraftian horror comic

• I got steemit more and BETTER mainstream press!

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]

(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)

Steem price	US$ 0.498	09 Apr'19 1.02am UTC
SBD price	US$ 1.08	09 Apr'19 1.02am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#50 (-1)	09 Apr'19 1.02am UTC
FCAS Score	534 (+2) / C / #86	09 Apr'19 1.02am UTC
No. of Whales	35 (n/c)	07 Apr '19
No. of Orcas	340 (n/c)	07 Apr '19
No. of Dolphins	1974 (+2)	07 Apr '19
No. of Minnows	9336 (-5)	07 Apr '19
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#4,981 (-14)	09 Apr'19 1.02am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	229,630 / day	09 Apr'19 1.02am UTC

Follow @penguinpablo, @steem-data & @eforucom for more statistics.

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Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...

• Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events @ 3 April 2019

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This is #126 (08 Apr '19) of this daily news service.

Please let me know of any important posts or key data that should be included. Comment below or message me on Discord Pennsif#9921

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