To sum up the growth of Steem's Ecosystem, I've made this infographic of the latest developments that are currently active on Steem's Blockchain. Steem has been operational for over 2 years but has managed to onboard thousands of users and has attracted several entrepreneurs interested in it's distributed ledger & growing community

''We can expect more projects in the future as the general public has yet to explore all the opportunities that Steem's Blockchain has to offer since it allows developers to build decentralized applications on top of it''

Some creative individuals have shown their support by utilizing the fundamental technology powering this platform. This post is dedicated to sum up the existing applications that are operational, and the end-result of a dedicated Steemian (nickname for Steemit User)

So it's actually possible, to develop custom applications on top of Steem? Like most users, you may have discovered Steemit.com which is just a user-interface built on top Steem, a Blockchain that is capable of doing so much more besides just being a social media platform. Over the following years, entrepreneurs will realize the opportunity that blockchain technology has to offer, those contributing to Steem are essentially bootstrapping the digital currency that is designed for micro-transactions, social networking & distribution of wealth

Keep in mind that this community is still the adoption phase, with more active users there will be a growing demand for services to be established, it helps that a distributed ledger like Steem makes it easy for developers to work with its data. Make sure to follow me @steemitguide as I will be reviewing each of these Steem-based services in the near future

Steem's blockchain is already capable of supporting every kind of blockchain application you can conceive. Let's sum up some of the existing ones;

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Steem Applications:

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Steemit.com - The most popular Steem user-interface that designed for Blogging

Dtube- Decentralized Video Hosting Platform

AskSteem - Get Paid for Asking & Answering Question

ChainBB - An Internet forum, or message board designed for online discussion

Esteem- Mobile Application to browse Steem Content

Zappl - Twitter-like, short-form Social media network

MangoSteem - Decentralized Messenger

Busy - Next Generation Social Network

SteepShot- A social networking App made for sharing Photos and Videos

DSound - A Decentralized online audio distribution platform

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Developers Tools

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Piston - Command line tool to interface with the STEEM network

SteemData - Offers a public database layer for STEEM blockchain

SteemJ - A simple wrapper to enable the access of the Steem web socket API through Java

Utopia - A project that aims to reward Open Source contributors for their work, startup incubator

SteemSQL - A publicly available Microsoft SQL database containing all the Steem blockchain data

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User Services

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Streemian - Automate common tasks, schedule posts, & create a Curation Trail

Peerhub - P2P Marketplace that accepts Steem/Steem Dollar

SteemVoter - A tool that allows users to automate Upvotes

SteemConnect2 - A tool to help you connect to Third-party applications

SteemDB - Open source Steem blockchain explorer

SteemSpeak - A Steemit Centric Community that welcomes users to have discussion over the phone