Finally, STEEM broke the support levels and currently is trading at $2.08.
source: https://www.livecoinwatch.com/price/Steem-STEEM
As you can see, at some point it was even trading at $2.30 which is quite high if we take into account recent $1.80 levels. But the rapid price increase was immediately followed by a sell off - hopefully it's just a healthy correction and we're gonna be back in uptrend in upcoming hours.