Livepeer

During 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: …

Better 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. …

Livepeer is an Ethereum-based protocol that distributes video transcoding work throughout its decentralized network. The protocol aims to provide cost efficient, secure, and reliable infrastructure that can handle today's high demand for video streaming. For projects involving both live and recorded video, transcoded video from IPFS or Arweave can be…

This guide was originally published on https://docs.filebase.com. Check out the Filebase documentation site for the latest Web3 tutorials using IPFS through Filebase. Learn how to mint a video NFT with LivePeer. What is LivePeer? LivePeer is a Web3 video streaming infrastructure designed to build video streaming and hosting applications. …

We’ve reached the end of the fantastic Next Video Build — a Livepeer-sponsored hackathon centered around decentralized video streaming. Hackers had the opportunity to attend fantastic sponsor workshops (by Livepeer and other sponsors), build a cool project, and now some of them have won prizes for those projects. Before everyone…

Despite 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…

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. …

Research and idea generation for an open, token coordinated video infrastructure started in mid 2016, however it was January 4, 2017 that Eric Tang and I committed full time to R&D on what would become Livepeer. The date was marked by a rental of a small co-working space with two…

TL:DR Livepeer is a video protocol built on Ethereum. Its goal is to deliver a fully decentralized video streaming network. The way it achieves this is by distributing the transcoding process to a network of node operators. The transcoding process involves taking the video and optimizing the video so that…