# Proposal: Network Engineering SPE

**URL:** <https://forum.livepeer.org/t/proposal-network-engineering-spe/3240>\
**Category:** Treasury\
**Created:** [April 20, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/proposal-network-engineering-spe/3240 "2026-04-20T18:55:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mehrdad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.livepeer.org/mehrdad/32/1800_2.png) [@Mehrdad](https://forum.livepeer.org/u/Mehrdad)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/proposal-network-engineering-spe/3240/9 "2026-06-26T15:58:27Z")

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# Network Engineering SPE — Update #2 (June 2026)

**Period:** 1 June 2026 – 26 June 2026

**Status:** On track

**Summary:** All three funding lanes ran live this month — the first Direct Grant was awarded, the first RFP delivered Milestones 1 & 2, two retroactive grant applications were received, and new builder bounties opened.

## Completed Deliverables

- **Direct Grant #1 — Livepeer Payment Clearinghouse (John Mull / Elite Code Solutions) — awarded**
  - First Direct Grant to run the lane end-to-end: a provider-agnostic clearinghouse suite extending the go-livepeer remote signer webhook contract. Champion gate met, AI rubric pre-screen returned _Strong_, Review Team approved $15k USD-equivalent in LPT, milestones confirmed, weekly build updates running.
  - [Application](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/livepeer-payment-clearinghouse/3264/1)
  - [Champion + AI pre-screen](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/livepeer-payment-clearinghouse/3264/3)
  - [Award decision](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/livepeer-payment-clearinghouse/3264/8)
  - [Milestones confirmed + week-1 build recap](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/livepeer-payment-clearinghouse/3264/9)

- **RFP #1 — Delegator UX Analysis (RaidGuild) — Milestones 1 & 2 delivered**
  - Milestone 1 (research plan, benchmark set, comparison dimensions) and Milestone 2 (competitive teardown — Figma journey breakdowns + comparison matrix) both signed off.
  - [Update #1 — Milestone 1](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/rfp-delegator-ux-analysis-self-custody-vs-custodial-staking/3254/7)
  - [Update #2 — Milestone 2](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/rfp-delegator-ux-analysis-self-custody-vs-custodial-staking/3254/9)

- **Retroactive Grants — two applications received, under review**
  - **Livepeer Workflow Kit (Shane)** — A Roadmap Session on 27 May scoped agentic workflows on Livepeer. Shane then presented across the June Water Coolers (2, 9, 16, 23 June); on 16 June he gave a live demo of his Agentic Workflow Runtime (built on RoboFlow for flow authoring) that captured the Water Cooler call itself — streaming a browser tab, transcribing the audio via an NVIDIA NeMo runner with speaker diarization and analysing the video via Florence-2, all GPU work routed through Livepeer orchestrators. He shipped two new open-source runners (audio diarized transcription, Florence-2 vision), then filed the application.
    - [Application](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/livepeer-workflow-kit/3271)

  - **Livepeer Discord Protocol Data Bot & Public Protocol Data API (Mike Zupper / Cloud SPE)** — Mike presented at the 9 June Water Cooler and demoed a production stack: a Rust + Postgres Protocol API indexing every Livepeer event on Arbitrum with block-precise USD pricing, plus a Discord Network/Payout bot. He deployed it live and tested it with orchestrators and delegators — the bot DMs subscribers whenever an orchestrator changes its reward cut — and pushed it in #Delegating and #general for orchestrators to subscribe and give feedback, gathering support in the bot channel.
    - [Application](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/livepeer-discord-protocol-data-bot-public-protocol-data-api/3272)
    - [Payout bot — try it / feedback](https://discord.com/channels/423160867534929930/1513470748595847208/1513871276341596232)

- **New builder bounties opened — three different builders activated**
  - Four bounties posted to the board; [Builder ideas & bounties board](https://github.com/orgs/livepeer/projects/24/views/1)
    - [Add a realtime Flux Klein example over Trickle (remote signer + local SDK)](https://github.com/livepeer/live-runner-example-apps/issues/1)
    - [Add realtime transcription using vllm /v1/realtime websocket connection](https://github.com/livepeer/live-runner-example-apps/issues/2)
    - [Explorer Bounty Umbrella: Bug Fixes and UX Improvements](https://github.com/livepeer/explorer/issues/709)
    - [Explorer Bounty Umbrella: Orchestrator and Account Improvements](https://github.com/livepeer/explorer/issues/711)

  - [Retroactive Opportunities channel (Discord)](https://discord.com/channels/423160867534929930/1252648470779662356)

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