Capital Markets Advisory Board Candidacy

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Executive Summary

This post is for ecosystem participants and community members to propose their candidacy to join the Capital Markets Advisory Board.

You can read the Advisory Board announcement to learn more about Advisory Boards and their role in governance and the setting of strategic direction for the Livepeer network.
Candidates have until Thursday May 22nd to submit, with the final decision made the following week. To give ample time to review and consider, we advise everyone to submit their applications ASAP.

Capital Markets Advisory Board Scope

In general, Advisory Boards play a critical role in supporting the development of network wide strategic direction. There are four advisory boards covering the gamut of network sovereignty (Network, Growth, Markets, Governance).

The primary question the Markets AB will focus on is: How do we cultivate a diverse group of investors that can capitalize and “liquify” the network?

Types of activity this AB includes are:

  • How do we grow the number of token holders and improve holders experiences, and increase accessibility of the token?
  • How do we widen our reach on exchanges and expand liquidity provisioning?
  • How do we optimise productive use of capital via the onchain treasury?
  • How do we expand the overall diversity of financial capital sources?
  • More questions will be added in advance of the board forming

Time Commitments

Exact time commitment will emerge in the next couple of weeks. We estimate that AB members will spend roughly:

  • ~3-4 hours per week for 4 weeks during Recommend & Screen phases.
  • ~1-2 hours per week ongoing during Advise stage.

Advisory Board Member Criteria

These criteria should be met in order to be eligible and considered legitimate for an Advisory Board Member role.

Established reputation - have a solid standing within the Livepeer core contributor community.
Strategy-oriented - does this person have the cognitive capacity to think both long-term and laterally, taking into account different aspects of the Livepeer project.
Collaborative attitude - have showcased a collaborative way of thinking and working within the Livepeer ecosystem
Stake in Network - have 100+ LPT staked within the network

All ecosystem participants can consider the opportunity, even if you don’t fulfil all criteria.

Propose your candidacy

To join the Capital Markets Advisory Board, simply post a reply to this thread answering the below questions.

Try to keep each answer to 500 characters or less, so ecosystem participants can adequately review all candidates.

1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?
Tell us a little about yourself. What name do you like to go by? What is the focus of most of your time? How do you like to spend your free time?

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?
Tell us what brought you into the Livepeer network and what excites you about its future?

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?
Briefly describe any historical contributions you’ve made or role(s) you’ve fulfilled within the network. Don’t forget to mention if you’re an existing Orchestrator, SPE member, grantee or Livepeer Inc team member.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Capital Markets Advisory Board?
Advisory Boards are specialized. Describe any qualifications or contributions that could help visualize your specialized expertise in network dynamics, especially those that relate to Livepeer.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Capital Markets?
List only one area concisely.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could be improved, in relation to Capital Markets?
List only one area concisely.

We look to forward to hearing from you!

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Hi everyone. I’m excited about the advisory board direction to set the strategy for the project across key pillars, and I’d like to apply to participate in the Markets AB.

Thanks for considering my application. While I hope to be helpful on this track, I look for others to join who are more active participants in the DeFI and onchain liquidity ecosystems, who are ready to interface directly with all of those market actors on the project’s behalf.

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Hi All! A big congratulations to the Livepeer team for the direction they’re headed in with the establishment of these wonderful advisory boards. We’re excited to share our interest in supporting via participation in the Markets AB.

1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?

We are JPEG Trading. A liquid, crypto-native proprietary trading firm specializing in high-frequency & algorithmic trading, DeFi infrastructure development, capital efficiency, and research. Our team is composed of researchers, traders, and engineers pushing the boundaries of how liquidity is provisioned and accessed across crypto markets. We spend our time designing trading systems, building tools for on-chain liquidity, and contributing to robust capital markets across the decentralized stack.

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?

We’ve built a constructive and growing relationship with the Livepeer team over the past several months: engaging in conversations around LPT market structure, workshopping collaborative ideas regarding on-chain liquidity, and actively staking LPT as part of our broader participation in the ecosystem. Livepeer combines long-term technical and product relevance with a disciplined approach to token design and treasury management. We see meaningful potential in helping shape the next phase of its capital markets evolution and are committed to contributing where we have depth: liquidity infrastructure, strategic design, and market access.

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?

Our relationship with the Livepeer network has developed organically through ongoing dialogue, strategic alignment, and active participation in key areas of the ecosystem. We’ve collaborated with the team via conversations on improving on-chain liquidity, participated directly in staking efforts, and contributed ideas around how capital within the network can be more effectively mobilized. It’s been a forward-looking & collaborative relationship that aims to support Livepeer as it strengthens its position as a foundational layer for decentralized video infrastructure.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Markets Advisory Board?

We bring a combination of technical depth, real-market experience, and design-oriented thinking to capital markets. Our team operates across centralized and decentralized venues, building systems for automated execution, managing liquidity across volatile conditions, and structuring capital-efficient LP positions that align with long-term protocol incentives and chain-specific solutions. We understand how assets behave in the wild and more importantly, how to support sustainable market depth while mitigating undesirable market activity. Our focus is on contribution, helping Livepeer navigate the evolving liquidity landscape with strategies that are durable, aligned, and execution-ready.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Markets?

The Livepeer community is long-term aligned and treasury-aware. That’s rare, and it demonstrates the strength of design and community stewardship. It provides Livepeer a unique opportunity to think creatively about capital formation, design, and execute capital markets strategies that are efficient and truly substantive.

6. What is one area the Livepeer network could improved, in relation to Network?

There’s meaningful room to enhance on-chain liquidity and expand DeFi integrations particularly on Arbitrum, where future DeFi integrations are expected to be expanded on (alongside fortifying the focus on Ethereum). Strengthening entry and capital use cases for LPT can make the network more accessible to new investors, while also enabling more dynamic capital efficiency that preserve alignment. With the right market structure, Livepeer can turn passive assets into means toward productive capital efficiency and reinforcing the sustainability of its treasury.

Thanks everyone. We look forward to collecting your feedback and continuing to contribute to everything that’s blossoming over at Livepeer and its markets. Onward & upward!

JPEG Trading

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Hi everyone. Congratulations to the team for taking this step in setting up the Advisory Boards. We are Caladan and we would like to join the effort in supporting LivePeer’s network wide strategic direction.

1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?
Caladan brings rationality to strange and unruly markets . We explore the frontier of finance, seek out new opportunities, and make markets more efficient and honest wherever we go. We support exchanges, tokens, and institutional investors with on-exchange liquidity, DeFi expertise, treasury solutions, and investments. Since 2017 we’ve been a pioneer in crypto market-making, powering over $50B in annual transactions across 1000+ assets.

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?
We believe in Livepeer’s mission to decentralize video infrastructure, an essential foundation as video becomes the dominant medium across AI, entertainment, education, communication and more. At Caladan, we’ve always sought out frontier technology. We’re especially excited about Livepeer’s evolving AI pipeline from decentralized inference to agent-driven content creation and monetization. We see Livepeer as one of the few projects with the technical architecture and ethos to support large-scale, real-world AI workflows onchain, and we are keen to contribute our expertise and know-how to supporting a mission we believe in.

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?
We’ve developed a strong relationship with the Livepeer team through ongoing conversations about market design and liquidity for the last few years. As active investors in Livepeer, we’re deeply aligned with the network’s long-term success and have offered perspective drawn from our broader experience across DeFi and centralized venues, contributing insight to help make LPT more accessible and attractive to a diverse set of market participants.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Capital Markets Advisory Board?
As investors in a range of crypto-native projects, we’ve seen what it takes to attract and retain diverse capital and how to structure incentive systems that deepen participation and liquidity over time. This gives us a clear perspective on how Livepeer can evolve its capital markets, and enables us to contribute meaningfully to the advisory board by helping shape a strategy that aligns market structure with the long-term health of the network. Having started out as a prop firm in 2017 and trading daily since, we bring deep expertise in liquidity architecture, tokenomics, and exchange relationships across both DeFi and CeFi.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Capital Markets?
Livepeer has secured listings on a broad set of centralized exchanges, including notoriously hard-to-access venues like Upbit and Bithumb in Korea. This wide distribution is a strong foundation for global token access, legitimacy, and future capital formation.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could be improved, in relation to Capital Markets?
Liquidity mining programs or LSTs could be introduced to increase defi activity, deepening pools and reducing slippage, especially in DeFi ecosystems. This would also support treasury diversification and stability. The introduction of options yield programs could create yield for both the project treasury and the broader community, unlocking greater utility for LPT. Another area is in AI integration: as Livepeer moves further into decentralized AI compute, deeper integrations with inference platforms, model marketplaces, agent frameworks etc would increase usage and align token utility with emerging demand drivers.

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Thank you for your consideration. I’m excited to follow the next chapter of Livepeer’s success.

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Thank you for considering the application of Shtuka Research to sit on the Capital Markets Advisory Board.

1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?
Tell us a little about yourself. What name do you like to go by? What is the focus of most of your time? How do you like to spend your free time?

I’m Andrew, mathematician and former academic, now founder of Shtuka Research, a research consultancy focused on market design and econometrics in decentralised ecosystems. We split our time between grant-funded research, commissioned practical analyses leading to concrete policy recommendations, and proof-of-concept applications of DePIN infrastructure.

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?
Tell us what brought you into the Livepeer network and what excites you about its future?

We see Livepeer as a thoughtfully designed decentralised cloud market with a lively, educated community, robust and transparent governance, and an extremely promising future. We believe the project is at the ideal stage of development to benefit from the data driven mathematical methodology we bring to the table. We are joining the Livepeer community to help upgrade its protocol and market design to a rigorous, quantitative discipline.

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?
Briefly describe any historical contributions you’ve made or role(s) you’ve fulfilled within the network. Don’t forget to mention if you’re an existing Orchestrator, SPE member, grantee or Livepeer Inc team member.

While our relationship with the Livepeer network has been established only recently, we have already shared some analysis to a tokenomics issue of pressing to concern to the community, resulting in a contribution to LIP-100. We expect to be contributing many more quantitative insights and analytical research on the Livepeer markets in the near future.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Capital Markets Advisory Board?
Advisory Boards are specialized. Describe any qualifications or contributions that could help visualize your specialized expertise in network dynamics, especially those that relate to Livepeer.

Our group comprises “big R” researchers with quantitative and research backgrounds at the Ph.D. level and beyond, including years of specialist experience in Ethereum and other blockchain environments. In particular, we have experience with market design both at a long-term research and applied level in DePIN ecosystems. In other words, the topics that the CMAB will focus on are our speciality, and we are very good at it.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Capital Markets?
List only one area concisely.

Principled and intelligent approach to node operator incentive structure and healthy governance.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could be improved, in relation to Capital Markets?
List only one area concisely.

Introduction of quantitative methods in evaluating policy decisions such as protocol parameter targets and liquidity incentivisation.

We expect that conducting quantitative analyses to accompany and inform policy discussions will, in addition to simply improving policy outcomes and consistency, also increase community confidence and understanding of whatever decisions are eventually made. Ultimately, the added transparency will drive long term value to the Livepeer ecosystem.

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Hey all, thank you for considering my application to the Markets AB.

1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?

I’m Vires, I studied economics and worked in Data Analytics before going full time crypto/blockchain 7+ years ago. Apart from running a Livepeer Orchestrator, I spend most of my time in DeFi: Researching (and contributing to) new projects and opportunities, providing liquidity and farming yield.

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?

I discovered Livepeer in late 2017. A blog post comparing the project with centralized services highlighted its focus on user freedom and empowerment while maintaining competitive pricing, which really resonated with me.

I’m excited about Livepeer because it’s an important building block that enables easy access to GPU resources. There’s no need for a credit card or bank account, no KYC and not even a passport is required. All you need is an internet connection and you can be part of a global digital economy while keeping ownership over your content and autonomy on platforms and monetization.

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?

  • Running an Orchestrator since March 2019
  • Developed the Orchestrator-Watcher telegram bot to give more transparency and on-chain monitoring to Delegators and Orchestrators
  • Authored LIP-83 (adjust the roundLenght parameter due to the Ethereum Merge)
  • Community Mod on Discord
  • Briefly worked at Inc. to help with their stake management
  • Various other contributions like e.g. writing a guide for Transcoder monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, developing a governance bot and joining Titan Node’s Start Up Grant to help and promote new Orchestrators

4. Why are you a good fit for the Capital Markets Advisory Board?

Through my active participation in DeFi, including liquidity providing and yield farming across various L1s and L2s for many years, I have deep knowledge of DeFi protocols.
My research keeps me informed about new ideas and technologies, particularly in terms of tokenomic designs. Over the years, I’ve seen both effective and ineffective strategies, enabling me to offer well-informed guidance.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Capital Markets?

Livepeer has decent liquidity on some major exchanges and achieved a strong staking rate of around 50% due to its inflation mechanism.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could be improved, in relation to Capital Markets?

It’s important to not rely on centralized actors like exchanges or market makers to guarantee easy access to LPT. Better (and sustainable) on-chain liquidity should be a key focus.
Idle capital, such as the treasury could help with that in the short term. And in the long term, enabling some form of liquid staking would be a great way to achieve more DeFi integrations.

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1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?

I am Ivan. I lead tokenomics at Aragon, where I have been working at the intersection of token value accrual and governance since 2021. Between 2018 and 2020, I started the institutional business at Nexo (a crypto lender) and scaled it to $5M ARR. I’ve also spent time at karpatkey, leading the treasury management team serving Safe DAO and dYdX DAO. Outside crypto, my background spans finance, energy infrastructure, and fintech. I angel invest and yield farm.

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?

Livepeer has been working on “mass adoption” since before it was cool — solving a tangible, high-cost infrastructure problem where cryptoeconomic primitives enable efficient scaling but are fully abstracted from the end user. It’s one of the few exciting use cases that isn’t just DeFi serving crypto-natives.

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?

I’ve been staking LPT continuously since July 2020 and currently stake through Tenderize. Having evaluated many token systems across the space, I see Livepeer as uniquely positioned to generate real economic throughput and sustainable token utility — a key lens I bring to the advisory board.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Capital Markets Advisory Board?

I came into the space in 2017 as an investor and have unwavering conviction that most industry participants are not “in it for the tech” but are here for asymmetrical financial upside. That lens has given me a strong, pragmatic perspective on network monetization, token value accrual, and protocol financial sustainability.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Capital Markets?

It offers a rare combination: credible product-market fit, exogenous-to-crypto nonspeculative revenue flows, and the potential for token-level value accrual — all of which make it legible and compelling to capital allocators.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could be improved, in relation to Capital Markets?

Improving sovereign, programmatic liquidity across DeFi — including more robust protocol-owned liquidity (POL) strategies — would reduce reliance on third parties and “wet code” contracts. Strengthening Livepeer’s native liquidity footprint is key to ensuring sustainable capital formation and credible market access over the long term.

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Hey hey! As Chair of the Capital Markets Advisory Board, I feel blessed that I’ll get to work with all the talented people applying, and I’m inspired by this reminder of all the friends Livepeer has who want to see us succeed together!

Here’s me answering the same questions asked of our candidates so they can opt in to working with me too!

Who are you and how do you spend your time?
I’m an Aussie who loves to surf, socialise with friends and family and spend time being active outside as much as possible. I’ve had a whole career doing different business and talent related things and am really passionate about censorship resistance and open source and against all the nonsense that comes with proprietary systems taking a cut out of every inch of our existence.

Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?
More and more of our lives are moving online, and each phase bring deeper experiences - from web pages to instagram and now the pre-eminence of TikTok, YouTube and online video. I anticipate our immersion into AI will operate similarly, with a huge addressable market in the space we are in. It’s exciting to think about how we are positioned for this and how we can leverage the power of our network to understand and anticipate the role we can play in this emergence.

What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?
I only started with Livepeer a few months ago. My role is to help establish operations for the Foundation so that it can be a coordinating force that helps drive the creation of common goods and acts as a coordinator and faciliator to help help everyone in the ecosystem go faster towards our goals.

Why are you a good fit for the Capital Markets Advisory Board?
I have a Masters in corporate finance and have a background working in resource allocation. The way we attract and utilise capital is a core part of achieving our goals, and we need to understand the goals of token holders, delegators and liquidity and capital providers extremely effectively if we want to help them realise those goals through the LPT token. I think this background and perspective make me a good person to facilitate the alignment between advisory board members.. but all the credit, kudos and value is going to come from all the great candidates we have applying and the work that they do through the process.

What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Capital Markets?
Livepeer has delivered a functioning network, has a stable governance model, and operates in a huge addressable market. It also has driven founders, entrepreneurial contributors, loyal followers and the credibility to be able to identify and advocate a positive vision of the future as it relates to open video. Being able to paint this vision and show that it can deliver on it is a huge part of attracting capital and delivering a return on investment.

What is one area where the Livepeer network could improve, in relation to Capital Markets?
Having focus on the Capital Markets dimension will allow Livepeer to go fast and far. To date, Inc has rightly focused on fundamentals to help attract capital. With Advisory boards coming online.. we’re creating a new wave of energy and focus on how to create and capture value via LPT.

I’m excited to be part of this but especially grateful for the trust in me to help coordinate all this great talent around a compelling vision for LPT and the future of capital markets in Livepeer. I’m excited to get started!

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It’s a pleasure to announce the members of the Capital Markets Advisory Board!

We have a great bunch of talent coming together and I’m really excited about what we can achieve.

The goals we had in mind when choosing the board were to ensure it had:

  • People invested in the success of Livepeer
  • People knowledgeable not just in Livepeer but across other web3, DePIN and AI projects
  • People knowledgeable in key domains including Liquidity Management, Market Efficiency, Capital Formation, Incentives & Tokenomics and Risk Management.

It’s a testament to the quality of Livepeer’s network of connections that each of the applicants fulfilled these criteria.

The final team coming together for the Advisory Board is:

  • @dob Livepeer Inc, knowledgeable across the whole ecosystem including our tokenomics and capital formation
  • @Will-Caladan and @JPEG_Trading, representing two firms very knowledgeable in liquidity management and market making
  • @vires-in-numeris who is of course very knowledgeable across our entire ecosystem and tokenomics, and can represent our delegates and holders of LPT
  • @awma from Shtuka who is an experienced researcher, systems designer and data analyst with knowledge of network economics
  • @Judyvs who is the Finance lead at Inc, a finance professional and knowledgeable in accounting and risk management

Thank you to everyone who applied and participated in the process. I’ve already scheduled calls with all members of the board to get prepared and will update on further developments as we progress. But for now I’m looking forward to getting everyone ready for a great experience and eagerly await the results of the community survey.

Many thanks!

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