Monthly Wrap-up: January 2026

Each month, this roundup collects the news from across Livepeer: the protocol, the teams funded by the community treasury, and the people building on the network.

In January, LIP-101 passed, so a share of staking rewards goes to the treasury again, and Livepeer started work with XMTP and Ar.io. Five funded teams also closed out their work with retrospectives.

Ecosystem

• Livepeer starts work with XMTP and Ar.io. XMTP to bring Livepeer into messaging, and Ar.io (Arweave) to connect it with permanent storage.

Funded work

• Sidestream takes on protocol security and development. It claimed the roadmap item for dedicated protocol security and development capacity.
• Cloud SPE takes on network observability. With its treasury proposal passed, its analytics pipeline already runs end to end to a first Grafana dashboard.
• Two roadmap items move from Now to Next. Upgrading transcoding and improving the gateway wait for team capacity, after the market-mapping report.
• Explorer shows how orchestrators vote. Explorer maintenance shipped its voting transparency feature, alongside fixes across milestones 3 and 4.
• Docs v2 gets a public preview.
• AI SPE closes Phase 4.
• OSS SPE reports on its open source sponsorships.
• AI Creator Adoption SPE closes out.
• Embody team posts its retrospective.
• The AI x Open Media Forum report is out. Refraction's report on the Devconnect event.

Treasury & governance

• The treasury reward cut is approved. LIP-101 passed, so a share of staking rewards goes to the treasury again. A pre-proposal on inflation is open for discussion.

What's next

• The Cloud SPE: a public dashboard of live network metrics, due with its next update on March 1.
• Protocol R&D: Sidestream posts its first monthly update in February.
• DEX liquidity: a proposal to improve it is on hold while the treasury's value is uncertain.

Funded teams can get their news into next month's roundup by posting their monthly update in their proposal's forum thread.