The World's Open
Video Infrastructure
Livepeer is a video infrastructure protocol designed to power the new creator economy. Add live and on-demand video experiences to onchain apps, open social, and everything in between.
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Superpowers for video developers
Build with an open video API that gives creators independence from platforms and developers the freedom to build. Explore guides, API documentation, a Typescript SDK, and fully open source code.
Read the docsExplore the fully integrated suite of open source products and tools.
🎙️ Livepeer Studio
Livepeer Studio is your dashboard for building onchain and open social video experiences with the Livepeer API.
🧰 Livepeer.js
Livepeer.js is a typescript SDK that provides a collection of React hooks and video components for easy interaction with the Livepeer API.
🌐 Livepeer API
Checkout the Livepeer API reference docs and explore all the endpoints exposed on the open API.
Learn where to start and how to build with our Livepeer developer guides.
📼 ️ Upload a video
Learn how to upload a video and play it back in your application with Livepeer.js.
🔴 Create a livestream
Learn how to create a livestream and play it back in your application with Livepeer.js.
▶️ Playback On Demand Video
Learn how to playback videos off of storage protocols IPFS and Arweave instantly with zero buffering using Livepeer.js.
🔐 ️ Add access control
Learn how to gate on-demand video assets with wallet or NFT based access controls using Livepeer.js.
The Livepeer Ecosystem
A growing network of open video apps
By combining Livepeer’s open video API with onchain primitives and open social protocols, developers are disrupting the way creators own and monetize their video content, creating new and novel video experiences across music, live entertainment, shopping, gaming and more.
Lenstube
A social platform for video sharing built with Livepeer and Lens.
lenstube.xyz
Beem
Build your custom video streaming site and mobile app with no code.
beem.xyz
Bonfire
Bonfire gives you the tools to start, grow, and manage communities.
bonfire.xyz
Orb
A decentralized social media client built with Lens and Livepeer.
orb.ac
Xeenon
Get paid to stream with an open video streaming platform.
xeenon.xyz
The Livepeer Network
Help power the world's open video infrastructure
As the heart of the Livepeer network are participants from all over the world routing and processing video in exchange for broadcasting fees (ETH) and network rewards (LPT). Jump in by choosing the role that best describes your interest.
Orchestrators
Run a livepeer node and transcode video on your GPUs in exchange for broadcasting fees and network rewards.
/orchestrators
Delegators
Help secure and improve the network by delegating LPT with the most performant orchestrators and earn a cut of their broadcasting fees and network rewards in exchange.
/delegators
A 10-minute Primer
Curious about how Livepeer works?
Through storytelling, illustration, and data, the Livepeer Primer explains, at a high level, the problem Livepeer solves and how it works.
Check it outThe Numbers
The capacity on Livepeer's network represents access to 70,000+ GPUs, or enough to encode all the realtime video streaming through Twitch, Facebook, and Youtube combined.
99
Total active orchestrators
505.6 k USD
Total broadcasting fees paid
223.7 M
Total minutes of transcoded video
99
Total active orchestrators
505.6 k USD
Total broadcasting fees paid
223.7 M
Total minutes of transcoded video
99
Total active orchestrators
505.6 k USD
Total broadcasting fees paid
223.7 M
Total minutes of transcoded video
The Livepeer Community
Join the Livepeer Community
Livepeer is an open project that believes in open source code and creative contribution from people with diverse interests and skillsets. Join us.
Join our call
Every month, our community catches up with each other virtually. We hear about the latest updates from the core team and showcase what we’ve been working on. Calls happen on the second Thursday of each month @ 12pm EST. Catch them live on livepeer.org/tv.
Community Call Q1 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
youtu.be/ANem1c8d8MY
Livepeer Quarterly Node Operator Community Call - Q1 2023
Monday, April 17, 2023
youtu.be/ry7YzVpsZgc
Quarterly Orchestrator Call - 12.15.22
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
youtu.be/OV9n2UNZL-Q
Livepeer Project Update Call Q4 11.17.22
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
youtu.be/Qfa4ovO7DTk
Quarterly Orchestrator Call - 09.15.22
Friday, September 16, 2022
youtu.be/PGyAGUbtUiI
Livepeer Project Update Call Q3 2022
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
youtu.be/wZjmwCBdYfI
Quarterly Orchestrator Call - 06.16.22
Saturday, June 25, 2022
youtu.be/mYkKUMEVwcA
Livepeer Community Call - Network Roadmap for Q2/2022
Saturday, March 26, 2022
youtu.be/Ju5vXCO_P4w
Quarterly Project Update Call - 01.20.22
Saturday, January 22, 2022
youtu.be/2oVlrFb9ZMA
Quarterly Orchestrator Call - 12.16.21
Saturday, December 25, 2021
youtu.be/a5TrfRcRKLg
Ethereum Layer 2 landscape Q&A - 11.23.21
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
youtu.be/uYeMWClkR18
Quarterly Project Call - 10.21.21
Sunday, October 24, 2021
youtu.be/5TSWTXNkxzU
Quarterly Transcoder Call - 09.30.21
Monday, October 4, 2021
youtu.be/lB188eDPTxs
Quarterly Topic Call - 09.2.21
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
youtu.be/rCEV2kN7DYc
Quarterly Project Call - 07.22.21
Saturday, August 7, 2021
youtu.be/FGRvKtdeqBw
Quarterly Orchestrator Call - 06.17.21
Thursday, June 17, 2021
youtu.be/shtIClbDu9I
Quarterly Topic Call - 05.13.21
Thursday, May 13, 2021
youtu.be/VlmsOuZa0Q0
Quarterly Project Update Call - 04.15.21
Thursday, April 15, 2021
youtu.be/P0nazRnHqQ4
Quarterly Transcoder Call - 03.11.21
Thursday, March 11, 2021
youtu.be/rze0cz0sBdY
Quarterly Topic Call - 02.11.21
Thursday, February 11, 2021
youtu.be/f8ieBLuAwbQ
Quarterly Project Call - 01.21.21
Thursday, January 21, 2021
youtu.be/VcGLGNA6VmI
LIP Call - 12.17.20
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
youtu.be/J1pQtZZ7TiU
Quarterly Livepeer Transcoder Call
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
youtu.be/Ue2xizko_5o
LIP Call - 10.22.20
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
youtu.be/gPQ-_UgM8zs
LIP Call - 10.08.20
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
youtu.be/Cn8JlkBT8Sc
LIP Call - 09.17.20
Monday, September 28, 2020
youtu.be/lU2u3uaXoYA
Quarterly Transcoder Call - 09.10.20
Friday, September 11, 2020
youtu.be/qlqVZ0MoMl0
LIP Call - 09.03.20
Friday, September 4, 2020
youtu.be/q6I2DkY8yMU
LIP Call - 08.20.20
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
youtu.be/Ierxk7FH_mE
Quarterly Topic Call - 8.13.20
Friday, August 14, 2020
youtu.be/BZva4QhiYb0
LIP Call - 08.06.20
Thursday, August 6, 2020
youtu.be/OP6fIN1rFek
Quarterly Project Update Call - 07.30.20
Friday, July 31, 2020
youtu.be/wOceq9qJTSo
LIP Call - 07.22.20
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
youtu.be/es06OBPHKeE
LIP Call - 07.09.20
Thursday, July 9, 2020
youtu.be/z5xDec0jwlM
LIP Call - 06.25.20
Friday, June 26, 2020
youtu.be/rHnpEFqZ9Fc
LIP Call - 6.11.20
Saturday, June 13, 2020
youtu.be/dbI1d6BA2K8
Community Call 06.11.20: Quarterly Transcoder Call
Thursday, June 11, 2020
youtu.be/ZIJeFFvg5bE
Community Call 05.14.20: Quarterly Topic Call
Thursday, May 14, 2020
youtu.be/zkQMpfinhM8
Community Call 04.16.20: Quarterly Project Update Call
Thursday, April 16, 2020
youtu.be/rzYRU2H8wjk
Community Call 03.19.20: Quarterly Transcoder Call
Friday, April 3, 2020
youtu.be/Zz-WTzoM1IM
Community Call 12.12.19: Quarterly Transcoder Call
Friday, December 13, 2019
youtu.be/LYG4QhkEqBY
Community Call 10.24.19: Livepeer for Video Engineers & Enterprise
Monday, October 28, 2019
youtu.be/XQxFKvjbnVw
Community Call 09.26.19: Streamflow, GPU Transcoding, & Probabilistic Micropayments
Sunday, September 29, 2019
youtu.be/xPy2NiCDfmk
Community Call 08.30.19: Open Source Protocols
Friday, September 6, 2019
youtu.be/7t-3mUVEHog
Community Call 08.01.19: Bug Retrospective
Friday, September 6, 2019
youtu.be/oKF9KNKXbjw
Community Call 08.15.19: Livepeer Community Discussion
Friday, September 6, 2019
youtu.be/zoS2IM2VXQM
Community Call - Tokenholder Personas - 2019 06 06
Friday, June 14, 2019
youtu.be/V5EkabxGez0
Community Call 5.9.2019: DTok
Monday, May 20, 2019
youtu.be/-8NyUjfsBfw
Community Call 2.14.2019: Streamflow Update, Aracon, Parameter Change Proposal
Thursday, April 18, 2019
youtu.be/4Wi5s6lVzNQ
Community Call 3.28.2019: Staking Guide
Thursday, April 18, 2019
youtu.be/_TfTBxkzJWQ