Video Made Possible.
Open Source Video Infrastructure Services, Built On the Ethereum Blockchain.
For video engineers who need affordable, reliable video encoding, Livepeer leverages decentralization to enable use cases and business models that were never possible via proprietary, centralized cost structures.
Peer to peer video services. Incentivized.
Livepeer is creating a scalable Platform as a Service for developers who want to add live or on-demand video to their project. We aim to increase reliability of video workflows while reducing the costs to scale them. To achieve this we are building p2p infrastructure that interacts through a marketplace secured by the Ethereum blockchain. To fit the requirements of today's DApp developers we are building Livepeer with these core attributes in mind:
Highly Scalable
Livepeer’s peer-to-peer network allows you to scale to any size without a single point of failure. It will optimize quality of encoding and performance of delivery.
Low Cost
Livepeer's peer network aims to reduce the price of transcoding by an order of magnitude over cloud providers, by using crypto-economic incentive mechanisms.
Decentralized
No single company or individual can control the network. All participants have the ability to shape Livepeer.
Ready to Jump In?
Get started by choosing the option that best describes your interest:
Video Developers
I am a developer. I want to use Livepeer in my video project.
Video Miner
I am an infrastructure provider with excess capacity. I want to earn LPT by running transcoding nodes on the peer-to-peer network.
Contributor
I am a developer or contributor to open source technology projects. I want to help build Livepeer.
Participate in the Network as a Tokenholder
LEARN HOW THE PROTOCOL WORKS
Learn how Livepeer works, what the token is used for, and how you can participate as a tokenholder.
GET LIVEPEER TOKEN (LPT)
The initial distribution completed on October 2nd, 2018. Community members make LPT available on decentralized exchanges for purchase.
STAKE WITH AN ORCHESTRATOR
As a tokenholder, you can stake your token with an orcestrator to perform work on your behalf, and earn newly minted token and fees everyday. This grows your total ownership in the network.Media
Livepeer has been under design + development for almost three years. Here are some resources to help you learn more about the project, protocol, and software:
Token Summit
Doug gives a 6 minute walk through of the Livepeer opportunity, impact, and tech from a high level at the original Token Summit.
Streaming Tech Sweden
Philipp presents how harnessing idle GPUs in cryptocurrency mining rigs can create a video infrastructure that scales with dramatic price disruptions.
Devcon
Eric gives a 30 minute technical presentation of how to add a live media layer to the web3 stack at Ethereum's Devcon3.
NYC Ethereum Meetup
Doug and Eric give a 10 minute presentation at the NYC Ethereum Meetup focused on Media and Cryptocurrency.
Who We Are
Join Our Team
We are a team of seasoned technologists working on a project that has the potential to touch millions of people. The company is based in New York, and we have a distributed team contributing to the project from different locations. The technologies we use include Golang, JavaScript, Solidity, open source video tools like ffmpeg, and smart contract platforms like Ethereum.
Join The Movement
Livepeer is an open project that believes in open source code and creative contribution from people with diverse interests and skillsets. Hundreds of people have contributed ideas, code, designs, and time to Livepeer. Here are just a few of the faces from our chatroom:
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