Steem Digital Asset Report: Introduction Steem is a blockchain that objectives the online networking segment and empowers clients to adapt their substance. The blockchain is best known for the lead application Steemit.com, a blogging site that outperformed 1 mln clients in May of 2018. From that point forward, its prominence has been declining because of the maltreatment of its reward circulation framework and the general market downtrend. The element behind Steam, Steemit Inc. has additionally been confronting subsidizing issues and needed to lay off practically 70% of its representatives, because of the precarious drop in cryptographic money costs. Be that as it may, the innovation behind the venture is as yet creating enthusiasm among engineers. Other than Steemit, the undertaking has more than 100 applications on its blockchain and plans the arrival of the Smart Media Tokens (SMT) stage, which will empower distributers to dispatch tokens on the Steem blockchain and adapt their substance. All things considered, at present, the future accomplishment of the task is faulty as it faces numerous issues and hardened market rivalry, which are compromising its long haul improvement. This report is the Initiation Report - our first profound jump into the execution and hazard/compensate factors. The investigation, decision and going with grade mirror our assessment on the long haul esteem prospects of a given token dependent on the present condition of undertaking improvement and pointers of future business reasonability - they are not intended to be characteristic of transient exchanging openings. You can see a full clarification of how our reports are developed and what they mean at the base of this page. Steem Market Opportunities Steem is a social blockchain where designers can make different dApps as options in contrast to existing interpersonal organizations. The task focuses on the web-based social networking market, which is ruled by mammoths like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and so on. The measure of the online networking market is relied upon to develop to $39 billion before the finish of 2019. In 2019, it is likewise assessed that there will be around 2.77 billion web based life clients around the world, up from 2.46 billion out of 2017, the quantity of clients is estimated to develop at around 3% yearly. Most famous informal communities worldwide as of January 2019, positioned by number of dynamic clients (in millions). Steem has officially created different person to person communication applications on its stage, as Steemit (simple of Medium and Reddit), Steepshot (simple of Instagram), and DTube (simple of YouTube). While Steem as a layer 1 blockchain faces rivalry for the most part from other blockchain systems, its most mainstream dApps are contending with items that are as of now commanding the web-based social networking market. The real contenders to Steem in the blockchain business are Ethereum, Tron, and EOS, which remain the most well known decisions for dApp engineers. Contrasted with Ethereuem, Steem gives higher adaptability and free exchanges, which makes it a superior fit for substance driven dApps. Consider Sapien Network, an internet based life stage based on Ethereum that is similar to Steemit. The last has further developed innovation and a customer base of more than 1 million clients. Sapien just has around 5,656 clients and is restricted by Ethereum throughput abilities. The account is reliable for other Ethereum based online life ventures. In any case, the two other significant adversaries, EOS and Tron, have substantially more dynamic biological systems. These blockchains are like Steem from an innovation point of view, yet have more dApps, more exchanges every day, and more extensive networks. Right now Steem dApps are more well known than the EOS (ONO) and Tron (TronChat) options, yet because of the quickly extending client bases of the particular systems, they will turn out to be progressively pervasive in the marketspace. Our discussions with undertakings building dApps on the Steem blockchain uncovered that new businesses are pulled in to the stage since it has a lower section obstruction for engineers than a significant number of its rivals. Web designers who are OK with Javascript and Python can make a simple progress to chipping away at Steem dApps. Rivalry in the Blockchain Space The intensity of Steem dApps in respect to their unified choices is low. The primary highlights that separate Steem's applications from its conventional analogs are content being saved money on the blockchain and crypto rewards for substance creation. Be that as it may, the prizes content makers can at present get on Steem's social application can't come close to the promoting income accessible to them on YouTube, Instagram or others. The circumstance has been distinctive with Steemit.com, where famous creators could hope to get paid, rather than accepting nothing posting on Medium or Reddit. Be that as it may, the fall of digital currency costs and defects in Steemit compensate conveyance prompted creators beginning to leave the stage, diminishing the general nature of the substance. Generally, Steem's most famous applications are endeavoring to disturb markets that are now settled and cornered by a couple of player