Last month, Livepeer sponsored bounties at EthGlobal’s Web3 Weekend — the returns were EPIC . For starters, ETHGlobal used LivePeer Technology to stream the Web3 hackathon’s kickoff talks and ceremonies. Seeing LivePeer tech enable hackers learn about what they wanted to build, created a virtuous and full circle for the…

A key component for the upcoming Livepeer Streamflow update is new software that allows GPU crypto miners to concurrently run the Livepeer video transcoding software. The video transcoding software takes advantage of the idle video processing ASICs on most commercial GPUs, thus effectively transcodes video while causing minimal disruption to…

The Livepeer Network was launched on Ethereum’s Mainnet on May 1st. It was an important milestone that marks the end of the Snowmelt phase. Since then, the team has been busy making small fixes and improvements. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are excited to continue pushing forward…

Key Points: The initial bug bounty program will run from 3/27/2018 to 4/13/2018. The scope for the current bug bounty program includes the Livepeer protocol smart contracts ONLY, which can be found here. The protocol smart contracts has been audited — you can find the report here. The Livepeer protocol…

Blockchain is like a laboratory for incentives. It gives us a flexible framework to experiment with new economic models at a rapid pace, and this powerful feature of the blockchain makes it the ideal platform for many disruptions. An industry would typically take years to evolve its incentive models, but…

We all love watching videos online. We spend hours everyday watching funny Youtube videos, weekend-binging Netflix shows, late-night streaming on Twitch. Facebook recently claimed video will be the dominant content format on the internet by 2020. But with all of its recent development in video content, video software still remains…

Background Decentralized applications (Dapps) are applications without a centralized owner. You may have heard of Bitcoin or Ethereum, maybe even Augur or IPFS. They are all examples of Dapps. I will not go into why Dapps are useful, you can go to Google or Medium and do a quick search. This…

AuctionHouse is a decentralized auction platform for Ethereum on-chain non-fungible assets. You can read about it more here. You are probably here because you want to test out the app. So let’s get started! Before you start using the app, you should make sure you are using Chrome, and you…

Open blockchain projects are about decentralizing services. For example, Filecoin for storage, Golem for computation, Ethereum for smart contracts, etc. Many of them are also platforms, and many of these services are generic enough to power many other services. I think a big group of them will replace / consume…