Doug Petkanics·May 15Introducing Sustainable Public Goods Funding to Livepeer Through A Community TreasuryThe Livepeer community has been hard at work over the past month designing and debating a new pre-proposal, codenamed Livepeer Delta, which attempts to further decentralize the Livepeer ecosystem by introducing a sustainable public goods funding mechanism into the protocol. This post summarizes many of the highlights and key…Livepeer5 min readLivepeer5 min read
Doug Petkanics·Mar 24Building the New Creator Economy Event Highlights and VideosDuring ETHDenver Livepeer came together with partners at Bundlr and Polygon to put on an event focused on Building The New Creator Economy. Topics ranged from creator centric applications, decentralized social media, and what innovations were at the heart of what blockchain can uniquely enable for creators. Some highlights: Adam…Blockchain2 min readBlockchain2 min read
Doug Petkanics·Mar 21App Spotlight: Xeenon Streamer Monetization InnovationBetter creator monetization is one of the big opportunities for blockchain connected streaming applications, as new mechanics like tokens, NFTs, and composability with other on chain protocols offer endless grounds for experimentation that are not possible in traditional apps. …Livepeer2 min readLivepeer2 min read
Eric Tang·Mar 14Video Streaming with FVM and LivepeerThe Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) officially launched today, and Livepeer is excited to be an official partner in this important step for the web3 ecosystem. Video represents over 80% of internet bandwidth and over 12% of cloud storage usage, and the launch of the FVM opens up the opportunity for…Fvm2 min readFvm2 min read
Livepeer Inc·Jan 24Lenstube: A Decentralized Video Sharing Platform Built With Lens and LivepeerLenstube is a social platform for video sharing that combines the best of traditional video-sharing platforms and with an open social protocol and decentralized video infrastructure. Whether you’re a professional creator or an amateur, Lenstube gives you the ability to upload and monetize your video content with ease. Currently, Lenstube…Case Study6 min readCase Study6 min read
Livepeer Inc·Jan 17Goodbye GIFs: Livepeer Unlocks the Full Potential of Video NFTs in DecemberLivepeer entered 2023 on a high with the December launch of game-changing new capabilities for video NFTs. Plus we heard, and saw, some exciting initiatives from Livepeer’s orchestrators. All the while, the network was busy bringing creative visions to life. In Q4, Livepeer transcoded more than 42 million minutes of…4 min read4 min read
Doug Petkanics·Jan 12Why Developers Need Livepeer to Bring Better Video to Decentralized Social AppsDespite many of the metrics in the decentralized tech industry being down in 2022, one thing that’s been decidedly up and to the right is growing adoption of decentralized social (dSocial) apps and protocols. This has been reflected in the growing user counts and registrations of on chain profiles across…Livepeer5 min readLivepeer5 min read
Livepeer Inc·Jan 5Livepeer API and SDK Release Notes (Jan 4, 2023)The Livepeer API and SDK (livepeer.js) allow developers to build applications with video easily by accessing the transcoding capacity of the Livepeer network. Summary This release adds support for additional file formats to the video-on-demand workflow with external transcoding, and increases the upload file size to 10GB. The Livepeer network now…Livepeer3 min readLivepeer3 min read
Eric_3.0·Dec 20, 2022First 100 Artists To Create a Long Take NFT Receive an Exclusive NFTCheck out the new Long Take NFT Publisher powered by Livepeer, a tool that enables creators to mint Long Take NFTs. To celebrate the release of the Long Take NFT Publisher, the first 100 video creators to publish and share their Long Take NFT will receive an exclusive NFT. To be eligible for the exclusive NFT: Create…Nft2 min readNft2 min read
Eric_3.0·Dec 20, 2022Long Take NFT Publisher FAQWhat is the Long Take NFT Publisher? Long Take NFTs are a type of video NFT that are not limited by the existing file size restraints of current NFT marketplaces. Currently, video creators are unable to showcase their artwork to its full potential due to platform limitations. For example, OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces, has…Nft2 min readNft2 min read
