In the past few months, rising Ethereum gas fees have continued to present issues for Livepeer network users: Orchestrators need to pay high transaction fees to register and provide service Delegators need to pay high transaction fees to stake and access earnings Broadcasters need to lock up a large amount…

Co-locating decentralized video transcoding with decentralized storage We are excited to announce that Livepeer is launching a co-mining pilot with Filecoin to enable Filecoin miners to become Livepeer video miners while continuing to mine on the Filecoin network by storing transcoded video data. Today, Livepeer video miners serve as the…

The Livepeer community recently accepted LIP-36 and LIP-52, two Livepeer Improvement Proposals (LIPs) that drastically reduce the gas cost of earnings claiming for tokenholders, allowing them to access staked LPT and perform staking actions that would otherwise be too expensive due to high gas prices on Ethereum. …

The Livepeer community has been working hard in the past few weeks to help reduce the gas costs of earnings claiming for tokenholders, allowing them to access staked LPT and perform staking actions that would otherwise be too expensive due to high gas prices on Ethereum. The updates are captured…

The goal of the Livepeer network is to drastically drive down video transcoding costs by allowing users to outsource video transcoding to service providers in a competitive and open marketplace. A challenge with outsourcing video transcoding to an untrusted service provider is verifying that the video transcoding was done correctly…

Introduction The Livepeer protocol is the backbone for video streaming public infrastructure. As usage of the infrastructure increases, a few questions naturally arise: How will the protocol rules and parameters change over time in order to ensure that the infrastructure can evolve to serve the needs of video streaming applications? Given…

The Streamflow release of the Livepeer protocol will bring a variety of performance, reliability and scalability improvements to the Livepeer video transcoding network. One of the major scalability improvements is the use of off-chain micropayments with periodic on-chain settlement to pay for video transcoding which will be enabled by an…

Ethereum enables arbitrary computations to be run in a decentralized and trust minimized manner, but in reality developers are much more limited in the types of computation they can include in their smart contracts. Computationally heavy tasks quickly become prohibitively expensive to run on-chain due to gas costs. Their execution…

The most transformative technologies in human history did not just gradually improve in a linear fashion. They made the previously impossible possible and then rapidly developed in a non-linear fashion. The invention and development of these technologies are non-linearities. Albert Wenger describes non-linearities as expanding the space of the possible…