Eli said during an interview with @aggroed during his Steem witness forum the date of Steemfest for SMTs. It wasn’t discussed in detail and it just kind of came out during her response to some questions about other things. It makes sense to me that they internally will want that done before Steemfest in early November in some form or another ... at least a testnet I would think. Let’s hope they can get it done. Back in Nov/Dec of last year when they were releasing their sprint data it looked like they were getting close and that was before they removed some complicated features of SMTs.