Monthly Wrap-up: May 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 May, the treasury funded a three-month Network Engineering pilot, Protocol R&D asked for $300K to continue for six months, and a security bug in the L1→L2 Migrator was found and patched.

Network & product

• New docs live at docs.livepeer.org. The documentation restructure shipped on May 4.

Protocol

• Migrator bug patched. An address-validation bug in the L1→L2 Migrator was disclosed and fixed on June 2.
• A protocol update ships with a new L1Migrator contract. Protocol R&D's May update, which came late, covers the upgrade executed on June 1. Sidestream had flagged the delay on May 29.

Funded work

• Network Engineering SPE funded. A $95K, three-month pilot with three funding lanes; its first RFP went to RaidGuild.
• Protocol R&D asks for a renewal. $300K for six months, going on-chain June 5.
• WEAVE delivers its first milestone. Tooling, a runtime proof, Askuno, and public KPI reporting.
• New RFP: how delegators stake. A study of self-custody versus custodial staking, issued May 18 and awarded to RaidGuild on May 29.
• Explorer maintenance closes out. RaidGuild posted the closing retrospective on May 4.
• Retroactive grants open. Network Engineering opened a lane for retroactive grants on May 11.
• Direct grants open. Its third funding lane launched on June 3.

What's next

• Protocol R&D's renewal: the proposal goes on-chain June 5.
• The delegator staking study: RaidGuild starts work on it in June.

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