As a non-developer blockchain enthusiast, I'm very interested in the dynamics of how SMTs will affect the STEEM ecosystem as well as the greater crypto economy. I've also been really curious how modern cryptos will be able to scale. If a single currency was to be used by billions of users and work well for decades, wouldn't it need the capacity to eventually scale to an absurd amount of transactions in a small time, say, trillions? Of course there will be completely new discoveries to be incorporated into the coding of existing blockchains through forks as well.
Having tokens able to be built directly off of the STEEM blockchain sounds like an incredible idea, though one whose operation I cannot admittedly fathom. Looking forward to the release of SMTs and learning more about how it all works. I'm also glad to hear you'll be featuring non-trending communities, something a large number of Steemians participate in.