In the latest Hive account@ned update about the state of Steemit, which you can find here, something really made me raise my left eyebrow (I seldom raise my left eyebrow, if you really wanna know):

Once RocksDB is fully scoped and specced, which will be completed tomorrow, we will have fully scoped and specced development of either a simple Token system for Transfers and Issuances and SMT development with a reduced scope.

Apart from the intricacies of the English grammar that are quite a bit over my head in this sentence, I think I get the gist: we may have SMT soon. This hypothesis seems to be confirmed by a comment on the same post by witness Hive account@therealwolf:

Based on the last SMT dev update, so far roughly 20+% of SMTs have been finished. So I honestly believe that SMTs 0.1 aka very basic SMTs shouldn't take too long to get ready.

Here are my takeaways from this new development:

• Hive account@ned seems to be hands on these days, which means the carrot is deep inside, if you know what I mean. And I'm happy Hive account@ned is hands on, although I would have preferred not to get to this level of entropy to move things forward. Anyway, I'll take an honest, hands on approach towards development over hype anytime, so we're good.

• a demo version of SMT may be soon available. According to my estimations, soon may be between 3 and 6 weeks. Add the winter holidays and you'll probably target the second half of January.

• the SMT demo version should run on a publicly available test network. Please, pretty please, with sugar on top, don't launch this on the main Steemit network without giving us, witnesses (or just regular Joes interested in the Steemit future) a chance to test the shit out of it.

• there will be a live streaming on Thursday in which we will find out more. Really, really looking forward to that one.

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