The Livepeer Foundation
An independent non-profit that coordinates the teams building Livepeer, helps their work get funded, and reports on all of it in public.
See what we're working onWe set the direction.
Together with the teams building Livepeer, we work out what comes next and publish it in one public roadmap: what's being built, and who owns it.
See the full roadmapOn the roadmap5 commitments open
In progressNetwork Engineering SPE
Network Engineering SPE II
Outcome: Building on, operating, delegating to and validating the Livepeer network gets easier, with one owner and one outcome per track by year end.
In progressLivepeer Inc
Network Readiness For Livepeer Agent
Outcome: A cohort of community orchestrators is live onchain running the new software, with capabilities standardised and performance observable.
In progressElite Code Solutions
Simplify Billing & Payments With Livepeer Clearinghouse
Outcome: Non-core developers can build and monetise on Livepeer through a shared payment, usage metering and authentication layer.
In progressLivepeer Inc
Agent Product Launch & GTM Exploration
Outcome: Livepeer Agent is in open beta with its first weeks of real market data to inform the direction of the GTM.
In progressLivepeer Inc
Validating Livepeer 2.0 Upgrades & Litepaper
Outcome: The 2.0 design is specified, simulated and supported by the community before any upgrade vote.
We connect work to funding.
The funding comes from the community treasury, which token holders control. We write the briefs teams apply against and help builders find the right path, from a single bounty to a treasury vote.
How funding works$500–$2k
Bounties
Small, defined tasks with a known answer
Up to $10k
Retroactive grants
Something you already shipped and the network uses
Up to $20k
Direct grants
Scope already clear, builder already obvious
$5k–$30k
RFPs
Briefs the Foundation publishes; you apply against one
No fixed cap
Treasury proposal
Large initiatives and new SPEs, decided by community vote
We hold the work to account.
Every team on the roadmap reports by our rules, and the roadmap shows it when they don't.
Read the reporting rulesWhen it's committed
It goes on the roadmap
With an owner who answers for it, a target, and where its funding comes from.
Every month
The owner reports
Where it stands, in their own words. After 6 weeks without one the roadmap says so, and the changelog lists who hasn't posted.
On trackAt riskOff trackNo update
When it ships
It closes with a retrospective
What was delivered against what was promised, and what was learned.
Shipped