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CCID (China Center for Information Industry Development)  under Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a state agency of the People’s Republic of China has announced to research and provide independent ranking of public blockchains. The key criteria that will be used by them are 

1. The project should have its own independent main chain
2. Nodes can be freely created
3. It should have a published block explorer where block information can be easily tracked
4. It needs to run on open source code
5. It should have an open website that project team members that are contactable

To start with following 28 cryptocurrencies are selected  in the inaugural index 

Ark, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, BitShares, ByteCoin, Cardano, Dash, Decred, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Hcash, IOTA, Komodo, Lisk, Litecoin, Monero, NANO, NEM, NEO, QTUM, Ripple, Siacoin, Steem, Stellar, Stratis, Verge, Waves and Zcash.

And as you see Steem makes its place here as well. We all know that Weiss also evaluates Steem very favorably. And we all also know that Steem is best used currency in world. 

Do you still have doubt about Steem? Better not. Go grab some before it is too late.