Three Things to Highlight Today on Steem

As I was checking my feed I discovered there are more than one things happening right now on Steem that are worth mentioning, maybe together, in case you missed them.

Utopian is one of the projects with the highest impact on Steem. And if it helps many developers (and not only) by upvoting their presentation posts using funds from the reward pool, imagine how much more we can do when help can come in more ways then from the reward pool.

That's one of the benefits Utopian wants to implement in their upgraded version, Utopian Colony.

To speed up development on Utopian Colony so that it launches in Q3 2019, Utopian has launched two fundraising campains. On Indiegogo and, after strong community request, on Fundition. You can see details about both of them, as well as the perks that may come to backers, in their latest related post, https://www.steemit.com/@utopian-io/utopian-colony-is-now-on-fundition-as-you-requested

Blocktrades just announced that a testnet is now available for the Steem proposals system. So far only from the command line, which means most steemians won't see it, but it's a progress that's worth mentioning, because it looks like work on this project is on schedule, and we will soon see it.

Details were released yesterday by the Blocktrades team in a short post:
https://www.steemit.com/@blocktrades/testnet-for-steem-proposals-is-live-and-ready-for-testing

Steemhunt is in the process of having Initial Exchange Offerings (IEO) for their token HUNT on 4 exchanges. Two of the exchanges where this happens were already disclosed and are IDCM and Probit. The other two will be disclosed when negotiations are finalized. Most likely one of them is Daybit.

Following the IEOs, HUNT token will be listed on the four exchanges involved in the IEOs. In the process, STEEM also got listed on Probit Exchange, with the KRW, BTC and USDT trading pairs, we also can find out from Steemhunt's post:
https://www.steemit.com/@steemhunt/hunt-ieo-live-steem-listing-in-probit-exchange-utopian-colony-x-steemhunt-term-19-influencers-or-sponsor-report-47

To make this post round, in the above announcements, Steemhunt also mentions awarding Double Credit Voucher to users of the Reviewhunt who support Utopian fundraising:

Steemhunt will give a Double Credit Voucher for perk supporters. When you run your review campaign via Reviewhunt platform, you will receive double the HUNT credit you purchased.