Data Unions ‘Trust’ in a Centralized World & Emerging Solutions for the Protection of Human Data Building trust among users is one of the central concerns for businesses in this data-centric world. With IoT devices, smartphones and wearables constantly streaming information about users, it is exceedingly
Data Unions 2021 Data Monetization Predictions First of all, what is a Data Union? A Data Union is a framework that allows people to easily bundle and sell their real-time data and earn revenue. On its
Opinion Data Is Labor: Why We Need Data Unions In the aftermath of a divisive U.S. presidential election that seems to mark the tail end of the 20th Century, I’m reminded of the daughters of the beginning
Streamr Data Challenge How the data landscape in India is on the verge of a makeover Image credit Alok Sharma, UnsplashPrivacy as a Fundamental Right - 2017The 21st century is often referred to as the information age, where data is a powerful asset, with humans generating
Dev Updates Dev Update, November 2020 Welcome to the November Developer update – our last update of 2020! It’s been another fruitful month in terms of roadmap progress and Data Union growth. We’ve seen a
News Join the Streamr Team at MyData 2020 Our friends at MyData Global are organising the annual gathering for anyone in the data space. From the 10th to the 12th December, hundreds of entrepreneurs, builders, researchers and activists
News News: Streamr Joins API3 DAO as a Founding Governance Partner Streamr and API3 join forces to bring Streamr data streams to smart contracts and decentralized applications, via first-party oracles. Traditionally, data providers have had to rely on third-party oracle solutions
“What if somebody wants to climb Mount Everest?” Testing the tokenomics of the Streamr Network with a digital twinThe Streamr team is currently designing the tokenomics for the Streamr Network, with support from the guys at BlockScience. Streamr’
Data Unions Data Union Concept Ideas The Data Union framework is now live. App owners and developers can explore ways to create unique data sets by incentivising users to crowdsell their real-time data. In this blog
Streamr Data Challenge Surveying the GDPR and Blockchains to Enable Ethical & Legal Data Privacy In May 2018, the European Union (EU) devised the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws to direct companies of all shapes and sizes to follow the legal and ethical treatment
Upcoming European Data Governance Act to challenge big tech’s dominance over personal data brokering New legislation will put data governance models such as Data Unions and Data Trusts in focus, empowering consumers and unlocking new business opportunities for EU startups. Brussels – Today the European
Dev Updates Dev Update, October 2020 Welcome to the October project dev update! This month has been busy – our long awaited Data Unions launch commenced, and we began our marketing push to developers around the world.
Introducing the new Streamr Data Fund The Streamr Data Fund provides funds to people and projects working with the Streamr stack to create and support real-time data projects. As it stands, there are 7.5 million
Streamr Data Challenge 7 Ways Blockchains Can Enable Efficient User Data Management In today’s data-centric age, managing data and protecting user data is a top priority. The world as we know it has the capacity to generate large amounts of data.
Meet TX – Tomorrow Explored: helping companies transform to meet tomorrow's data value chain TX – Tomorrow Explored is helping organisations to leverage the Streamr technology stack to engineer value from data in ways that benefit business and consumers. Consumers are becoming more and more
Streamr Data Challenge Welcome to the Streamr Data Challenge: a new way to monetise real-time data Data is eating the world. Every aspect of our digital life is generating data points, which are fed into algorithms that give us a smart experience in return for convenience
News We’re partnering with Lumos Labs to bring to you the Streamr Data Challenge We’re excited to announce that we’re bringing Streamr to one of the biggest developer talent pools in the world – India. At Streamr, we’re always looking for opportunities
News News: Streamr partners with GSMA to deliver Data Unions to the mobile sector Today, Streamr is announcing a partnership with GSMA, the industry body for mobile telecom communications. Streamr and GSMA have partnered to allow three mobile network operators (MNOs) to monetise their
Dev Updates Dev Update, September 2020 Welcome to the September project dev update! Streamr has earned a bit of a reputation for ending the year strong and as we round out Q3 2020 it's clear that
Data Unions Data Unions: Questions on data selling 1). How are Data Unions ethically different from Big Tech, seeing as they are trading user data? Yes users can consent, but why get involved in this sordid industry at
Data Unions It’s time to build Data Unions We can probably all agree that what’s been happening so far in 2020 has been unprecedented. From the pandemic, to wildfires, to the tensions around the upcoming presidential elections
Data Unions Let’s talk about Data Unions Streamr’s Head of Growth, Shiv Malik recently held an AMA on Data Unions for the GAINS Telegram community. Their questions led to an insightful discussion that we’ve condensed
Dev Updates Dev Update July, August 2020 Although summer is usually a time to take things slow, this year we decided to lean in, ship, publish, and as always, make steady progress towards our longer-term vision of
News News: Streamr appoints new Head of Developer Relations The Streamr project is pleased to announce that Matthew Fontana has been appointed as Head of Developer Relations. Matthew will be starting the role a few weeks before the expected
Data Unions How to create a Data Union Data Unions are more than just a new data monetisation strategy- they are the beginning of a new relationship between creators and their users. This post serves as a getting