Its a great news for the steemit community,the steemit ceo ned scot just annouce the creation of a new steem base token.
Its base that the steem is over 20 months of develoment the lunch of a new steem base protocol call smart media token which will allow and give access to application to create and own a steem like token which will allow and enable content creators to earn money easily from the interent
This image is copy from ceo @ned
Smart token will enable to earn money from the interent it going to work like ethereum tokens.