Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for February 2020. This month, the team made a lot of progress on the Network and Data Unions (formerly Community Products). We recently published a blog post on a research study we conducted, with support from Wilsome, to … Read more
Inspired by the Community Fund, Streamr recently conducted a survey to better understand the community and gain insights into the effectiveness of Streamr messaging. Below is a summary of the most insightful answers and Streamr’s response (qualitative answers have been summarised by theme and incorporated … Read more
In October 2019, The Swash app launched in beta. Since then, it has grown to over 1,000 active members who have chosen to collectively sell their browsing data on the Streamr Marketplace. The team have been busy gathering user feedback to combat bugs, add features, … Read more
Last year, Streamr’s CEO Henri Pihkala wrote about crowdselling data using Community Products — a new kind of data product made possible by Streamr technology and available via Streamr’s Marketplace. As Henri explained, “What makes a Community Product different from other [data] products is… for … Read more
Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for January 2020. A central focus for the past few months has been on building out our Data Unions (DU) developer framework. You might have known it as Community Products in the past but we’re renaming it now … Read more
Next week, we’ll be back in Denver! We had a great time last year; meeting old and new friends, participating in panels and showcasing Monoplasma. Since then, a lot has happened, and we’re excited to share our recent developments with the Ethereum community. This year, … Read more
Following revelations that the antivirus software provider Avast was harvesting and selling its customers’ browsing data through a subsidiary called Jumpshot, the subsidiary company, valued at $180 million, has been shut down with immediate effect. Shiv Malik, Streamr’s Head of Growth said, “Everyone at the … Read more
Welcome to this overview of Streamr’s ecosystem growth over 2019. This blog is intended to provide a recap of the project’s current state, share some of the major events that happened during last year, and also highlight some of the successful steps we took in … Read more
The release of our new website, back in September, was a big thing for us. We built it with the intention to deliver a neatly crafted composition that feels dynamic despite not having a dedicated backend. Gathering the data from external sources quickly became a … Read more
Most technology products that are purported to be easy-to-use are oftentimes not so in practice. The reality is that what tech people think is “easy” is not the same as what grandma thinks is easy. Grandma was not going to explore the Web in 1993 … Read more
Tl;dr — Community Products pilot in progress, Network global testing and improvements for Core app Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for November 2019. Just a quick note that this will be the last monthly update for this year. Don’t be too sad though. To end … Read more
Today the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines, UnionBank of the Philippines, and TX, (a subsidiary owned by Streamr Network AG), are announcing Tracey, an app for fisherfolk that will use blockchain technology for documenting and verifying catch and traceability data. The provided data … Read more
In 2018, Streamr announced a partnership with Daisy AI, Japan, an AI platform using blockchain for deep learning, based in Japan. Streamr intended to become Daisy AI’s official data provider to exclusively sell data from Streamr’s decentralized data Marketplace. Daisy AI planned to purchase data … Read more
Table of ContentsWhat is Streamr?The Streamr Tech StackThe NetworkThe MarketplaceData UnionsStreamr CoreEngineMonoplasmaA Brief History of StreamrWhere can you find Streamr?Developer ResourcesTutorialsProject Examples and case studiesJoin the CommunityCommunity FundReading list What is Streamr? Streamr is an open-source project creating a platform and tools for the world’s real-time data to be owned and … Read more
Tl;dr — Corea Network launch, Swash public release and Data Union Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for October 2019. Let’s nickname October “The release month”. If you haven’t been following Streamr’s recent updates and are wondering why, below are some of the major events that … Read more
Tl;dr — new website, new Network, more ecosystem developers Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for September 2019. If you have been following our project long enough, you might know we are reaching our second year anniversary! Looking back at where we started and the progress … Read more
Building peer-to-peer networks is hard. Figuring out how to test them can be even harder. As the launch of the Corea milestone — the biggest Streamr Network upgrade so far — is drawing nearer, I thought it might be good to give an overview of the goals for this … Read more
Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for August 2019. If you’ve been keeping on top of the Streamr project’s development, we officially launched the Core app a few weeks ago. We showed-off Core to scores of Web3 developers over Berlin Blockchain Week. Devs were … Read more
What happens if you create Web3 sign-in and a payments process for a data marketplace? Traditional data marketplaces, such as Thompson Reuters and Dun & Bradstreet, require purchasers to have credit cards…a business address… and so on. But with Ethereum addresses acting as both the … Read more
Developers and data scientists working with real-time data will now be able to use an innovative free toolkit to leverage the power of smart contracts with complete ease. Released today, the Streamr project’s open source app, Core, allows organisations who lack specialist Web3 programming skills … Read more