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  • You will need STEEM to buy SMTs.
  • Everyone who uses SMTs will also be using STEEM.
  • New investors will become interested in using the platform to launch and promote their own SMTs.
  • Lots of tools and applications built for SMTs will work with Steem.
  • Communities that want to control how rewards are distributed within their community can do it via SMTs without being drowned out by the votes of whale SP holders.

Lots more :)

Thanks for the insights, never knew what the fuss behind SMT was.. Until now :-)