I stumbled on this task while i am discovering the steemit ecosystem. i found it was inspiring and not much contributions yet.
I thought a kind of robot "seeker" was representing well the goal "maybe not that much the data tho" but also fulfill his icon role pretty well while displaying without any letters. see example above.
then the whole logo including letters.
monotone
Hope you'll like. If you have anything you'd like to see added let me know.
Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors
edit:
Here is my step by step process.