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. …

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…

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…

What’s going to be the critical driver for the next phase of web3’s development? I can tell you in a single word: Innovation. We know that the next video applications to break out at scale will almost certainly include web3 primitives, because the economic incentives embedded within decentralized apps in…

Since the rise of Ethereum in 2016, the blockchain community has been grasping for a successful example of real world impact beyond financial use cases. Can an app powered by web3 primitives cross the chasm to mainstream adoption and power something fundamentally unique and disruptive, relative to its web2 counterparts…

What’s your web3 strategy? I doubt it’s the first time you’ve been asked that question. It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for the disruptive opportunities and significant growth trajectories blockchain-based technologies can offer. And for founders looking to begin a foray into…

Livepeer has always made a point of ignoring market noise and focusing relentlessly on fundamentals: development, users, the ecosystem, and network operations. But given the scale of recent volatility, I thought it was worth outlining in some detail why gyrations in cryptocurrency prices are not a major concern for the…

When we started Livepeer over five years ago, there were very few developers and teams building and experimenting at the application layer in areas like social media, entertainment, and the creator economy. We would show up to hackathons and developer events evangelizing how you could build great applications with video…