RE: Velocity Hardfork Account Creation Guidelines

I haven't seen any public statements, but I suspect they will be competing for the discounted accounts along with other stakeholders. Since they have a significantly large amount of SP, they will likely be claiming a large number of the discounted accounts. No code has been checked in, but the faucet issue to track what they are doing is here: https://github.com/steemit/faucet/issues/386

@penguinpablo does a weekly report that includes the number of accounts created on the blockchain: @penguinpablo/weekly-steem-stats-report-monday-august-20-2018

As far as the number created by Steemit, I haven't checked the numbers myself, but I've heard it is around 1,000 per day on average (usually done in periods of large bursts, then quiet days).