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Livepeer Community Update – April - May 2025

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Introduction

The Livepeer community has been highly active in Q2, with several key proposals shaping the future of the network. The community has been driving important initiatives forward from SPE treasury allocations to potential protocol changes. Below is a summary of the latest governance activity, including newly passed, ongoing, and upcoming proposals.

Recent Progress

  • Community Engagement: Q2 Treasury Talks have so far garnered over 1,500 views, featuring more than 15 SPE presentations and discussions on governance and funding priorities. Catch up on all Treasury Talks here.
  • Advisory Board Candidacies announced
  • Treasury metrics: Four SPE proposals passed, two were rejected. Q2 spend now sits at ~150,000 LPT.
  • Livepeer Foundation: We are assisting the formation of Livepeer Foundation and Advisory Boards by engaging in discussions and communications.
  • Milestones and accountability: We integrated Karma GAP as Livepeer’s platform for milestone tracking and verification. All SPEs have been onboarded, and multiple milestones are already verified as 100% complete.
  • SPE retrospectives posted recapping what’s been shipped so far and budget utilization details
  • Community survey is live - Help shape the future of Livepeer!

SPE Milestone review

April-May Governance Activity

Passed On-Chain SPE Proposals

FrameWorks SPE: Pilot phase

  • Improving Livepeer’s transcoding infrastructure, enhancing node operator tooling and documentation, and piloting a more developer-friendly, end-to-end media pipeline.
  • Budget: 15,000 LPT
  • Status: Approved and in progress

Agent SPE: Phase 2 Proposal

  • Establishing a dedicated team focused on integrating and supporting Livepeer’s inference capabilities within leading AI agent frameworks.
  • Budget: 30,000 LPT
  • Status: Approved and in progress

Streamplace 2.0: Solving Video for Everybody Forever

  • Creation of a decentralized video platform and single-binary node (Aquareum) that integrates with user-owned identities on social networks.
  • Budget: 100,000 LPT
  • Status: Approved and in progress

Gateway Wizard SPE

  • Build a fully managed devOp tool that makes it easier for anyone in the Livepeer ecosystem to run, manage their own gateway and infra.
  • Budget: 6,600 LPT
  • Status: Approved and executed

Defeated On-Chain Proposals

Streamm SPE: Onchain social video and monetization

  • Building and scale the Livestream Agent Launchpad, a platform-native system on Streamm that lets users create, deploy, and monetize AI-powered livestream agents (co-hosts) using the full infrastructure of Livepeer AI.
  • Budget: 10,000 LPT
  • Status: Defeated

Creative Industries SPE

  • To increase usage of the Livepeer Network in the creative industries.
  • Budget: 28,000 LPT
  • Status: Defeated

Forum Proposals & Discussions

Launching the Livepeer Foundation

  • Livepeer will have a new aligned entity, welcome the Livepeer Foundation!
  • Budget: N/A
  • Status: Formation

Livepeer Inc in the age of the Livepeer Foundation

  • How is the formation of Livepeer Foundation going to affect Livepeer Inc
  • Budget: N/A
  • Status: Formation

Advisory Boards: A New Era Of Strategy For The Livepeer Project

  • Initiates the discussion about forming Advisory Boards as Livepeer-aligned entities that provide guidance on key project verticals.
  • Budget: N/A
  • Status: Formation

Livepeer Advisory Boards - Strategy Development Process

  • Outlines the timing and strategy for the formation of Advisory Boards.
  • Budget: N/A
  • Status: In discussion

AI Video SPE Stage 4: Pre-Proposal

  • The AI Video SPE requests 97,500 LPT from the Livepeer Treasury to continue scaling real-time and custom media AI workloads on the network.
  • Budget: 97,500 LPT
  • Status: In Discussion

LPT Inflation Adjustment - Continuation

  • Discusses adjusting inflation parameters to curb excess token issuance to ensure long-term economic sustainability for LPT holders.
  • Budget: N/A (Protocol parameter change)
  • Status: In discussion

Changes and opportunities

  • Water Cooler Chat will have a new host as Titan is stepping aside to focus on the development of the Agent SPE
  • Budget: N/A
  • Status: Discussion

Looking ahead

GovWorks remains committed to strengthening the governance process through increased transparency, coordination, and accountability. We will continue tracking key milestones and SPE progress using Karma dashboards, ensuring clear visibility into SPE performance and impact. In parallel, we are actively supporting the formation of the Livepeer Foundation, which will play a central role in stewarding long-term protocol sustainability. As Advisory Boards begin to take shape, we look forward to collaborating closely with these bodies to help align Treasury allocations with strategic priorities, facilitate informed decision-making, and empower the community to execute with clarity and confidence.