December - Status update
December focused on steady progress across capital, builder, and development workstreams.
Work continued on capital proposals, documentation improvements, roadmap coordination, and core infrastructure delivery, with several initiatives moving into position for next phases.
Release Notes
Capital Workstream
Deliverable
Capital Markets Working Group is progressing towards three proposals:
- Treasury Reward Cut
- LIP created on Github and in “Last Call” before proposing Onchain
- Liquidity
- Proposal to improve Dex liquidity was delayed to allow sequencing of Treasury Reward Cut proposal first. Continuing to clarify questions as needed.
- Inflation
- No releases in December
Builders Workstream
Deliverable
- Improve builder onboarding
- Docs have been significantly restructured to improve onboarding, clarity, and long-term maintainability, with more automation and cleaner separation between guides and reference docs. For more details check the latest update here
- Builder activation
- No releases in December
Development Workstream
Deliverable
- Create a New Core Contributor Coordination Function & Hub
- Livepeer Roadmap was launched and showcased in Fireside chat
- Article: A Roadmap for Livepeer: Surging into 2026
- Make Critical Explorer Improvements (via RFP)
- Explorer maintenance second milestone is done. For details please check the Github board for the progress and the latest forum post by RaidGuild
- Steward Payments Clearinghouse Roadmap & Prototype With Local SDK
- Remote signer architecture shipped: Remote signer protocol and implementation delivered via
go-livepeer
- Remote signer architecture shipped: Remote signer protocol and implementation delivered via
- Protocol R&D SPE
- Protocol R&D SPE specified in Pre-Proposal
Up Next
- Capital markets proposals
- Protocol SPE proposal
- Explorer milestone three
- Partnerships and microgrants