Monthly Wrap-up: July 2026
Mehrdad Sadeghi2 min read
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 July, LIP-118 went on-chain, so orchestrators can hand off their reward calls, and the study of self-custody versus custodial staking finished. On the forum, the Livepeer 2.0 discussion began.
Network & product
- An RFC sets out the agent framework. Qiang Han's five milestones, open for comment until August 10.
Protocol
- Orchestrators can now hand off their reward calls. LIP-118 was deployed on-chain on July 30, in Protocol R&D's busiest month yet for vulnerability response.
- LIP-118 discussion thread opens. rickstaa opened the thread on delegated reward calling.
- The Livepeer 2.0 conversation begins. dob set out "A Path to Livepeer 2.0", honestly_rich posted "The Initial Roadmap", and threads opened for delegators, node operators and validators.
- Sidestream proposes a Livepeer testnet.
Funded work
- The delegator staking study wraps up. The study of self-custody versus custodial staking delivered all four milestones and closed with a retrospective.
- Network Engineering decides five retroactive grants. Its first RFP also closed with a public retrospective, and Direct Grant #1 cleared milestones 1 and 2.
- Payment Clearinghouse closes its first milestone. It also demonstrated single sign-on through GitHub and Google for clearinghouse operators.
- Retroactive grant application: Flux Klein over Trickle.
- Retroactive grant application: vLLM real-time transcription.
What's next
- The agent framework RFC: comments close August 10.
- The Payment Clearinghouse: its third milestone covers a Builder API and usage tracking across multiple tenants.
For roadmap progress this month, see the July changelog. Funded teams can get their news into next month's roundup by posting their monthly update in their proposal's forum thread.