January - Status update
January focused on governance progress, new ecosystem partnerships and MOUs, and core infrastructure delivery.
Let’s dive into the details.
Release Notes
Capital Workstream
Deliverable
Capital Markets Working Group has passed 1 of the core proposals, with others still in progress but delayed:
- Treasury Reward Cut
- LIP-101 Proposal for the Treasury reward cut was approved and the Treasury is accruing more LPT
- Liquidity
- Discussions on proposal to improve Dex liquidity were reopened after treasury rate cut question was answered. However, current price and total treasury value make a large proposal like this more uncertain. We have further delayed and will provide updates soon
- Inflation
- Inflation LIP PR was posted on Github and pre-proposal was opened for discussion
Builders Workstream
Deliverable
- The Docs public demo is now live.
- Began collaboration with XMTP to bring Livepeer into messaging and distribution layers for open and AI-native media. Check our announcement for more details.
- Started work with Ar.io (Arweave) to connect Livepeer with permanent storage and provenance infrastructure for the open media stack. More details are available in our announcement.
- Signed an MOU with minidev to support Livepeer adoption in vibe-coding and AI-first developer workflows across open social ecosystems.
- Signed an MOU with Spritz Chat to power chat-native media experiences using Livepeer streaming.
Development Workstream
Deliverables
- Create a New Core Contributor Coordination Function & Hub
- Livepeer roadmap documentation and update log were added.
- Make Critical Explorer Improvements (via RFP)
- The Explorer maintenance RFP was finalized by RaidGuild. Check the GitHub board and updates for more information.
- The Explorer 6-month roadmap and milestones have been created and are open for feedback.
- Steward Payments Clearinghouse Roadmap & Prototype with Local SDK
- The remote signer prototype was merged into go-livepeer (PR#3822, PR#3791).
- A minimal implementation of the local gateway SDK has been delivered alongside an example app.
- Role definitions and design documents were delivered:
- Protocol R&D SPE
- Protocol SPE proposal was approved.
Up Next
- Docs new version
- Transformation SPE retrospective