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
Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for July 2019. You’re supposed to take a break in the summer months — not us. As we approach some crucial shipping deadlines, we have seen progress on multiple fronts including Network, Community Products and the Core app. Before jumping … Read more
Welcome to Streamr Core Developer’s Update for June. Before diving into our internal updates, I wanted to highlight two exciting occurrences that happened last month. One of the early Streamr community projects — a web browser plugin that allows users to share their browsing and search engine … Read more
Welcome to Streamr Core Developers Update for May. It has been an exciting and hectic month in equal measure. You see that from the long changelog at the end of this blog post. But it’s also something which, going by the number of Github commits … Read more
Useful as it was, I was never a huge fan of the previous Streamr app, one of the oldest parts of Streamr’s tech stack. From a user perspective, it lacked a central point, and had a lot of fussy, small views hiding much of the … Read more
Changing the data economy is one of the most urgent conversations people around the globe are having at the moment. Just last month, for example, in this incredibly powerful TED Talk, my former journalistic colleague Carole Cadwalladr, articulated just how dangerously flawed our current data … Read more
After many months of solid dev team effort, we are finally a few weeks away from the launch of Streamr’s redesigned online portal and real-time tools for prototyping and analysing data. If the testing phase conducted by around a dozen community members goes smoothly next … Read more
It is no secret that the world’s data economy is a mess. Vying for ever greater control, today’s tech behemoths are locking up the information we all create in silos, so few people, except themselves, can access those resources. Those attempting to connect with the … Read more
The way personal data is managed and profited from is a topic that is undoubtedly moving up the political agenda. In February, California’s Governor proposed doling out the proceeds of the information industry with a ‘data dividend’. US Senator Elizabeth Warren has suggested that the … Read more
Welcome to our March dev update. We are quickly leaving behind the coldest of winters and heading into spring for both Streamr and the crypto ecosystem. During the last month, our Network team continued with their development of Broker Nodes and we are seeing good … Read more
I’ll start with a personal story. Just over a decade ago, when I was a freelance journalist, three police officers from the Greater Manchester police terrorism unit came knocking at my door. When I asked why they had shown up at my flat, they told … Read more
On the 13th March 2019 we held a LIVE Telegram AMA with Streamr CEO, Henri Pihkala. Questions covered a range of topics, from the current state of the project, partnerships, DATA tokenomics, marketing , and what lies ahead for the team and decentralised data space. Here’s … Read more
February has been a quite frenetic month packed with many exciting developments. From the Network side, the team has been working relentlessly on various simulations and testing different topologies. In addition to that, they have been building analytical tools to improve their monitoring of the … Read more
Streamr’s marketing strategy has been a hot topic within our community for many months. Since joining the project in mid-November, I have spent a lot of time reviewing our past and present marketing efforts and developed a better understanding of what we need to be … Read more
Monoplasma is a special-purpose off-chain scaling solution for one-to-many payments. It’s a good fit for any system where you repeatedly need to: We built Monoplasma because we needed it for the upcoming Data Unions feature on the Streamr Marketplace. Data Unions will allow end users … Read more
Streamr has come a long way since we brought our crowdfunding to a close back in October 2017. And so much of the current success is down to you, the community of nearly 10,000 strong. Whether you’re on Reddit, Telegram, Peepth, Twitter, YouTube, GitHub or … Read more
So we’re excited. Next week, four Streamr Community members including Henri P, will be flying in to the Mile High city to attend ETHDenver for the very first time. Last year, the energy of the event seemed to exude from people’s pics and videos. You … Read more
Your next Smart TV purchase will know how to spy on you and has buyers for your data. You bought a product from the store but as soon as you switch it on, and for its lifetime, you are the product. If you feel a … Read more
Today we’re launching the Streamr API Explorer as part of our ongoing drive to improve the developer experience on the Streamr platform. The Explorer is an interactive dashboard to query our RESTful API directly inside the browser. You’ll be able to test and experiment with … Read more
We are starting the new year with a bang! If you haven’t read it yet, please take a look at one of the most anticipated features on our data Marketplace: Community Products. In short, this feature will allow any number of individual users to push … Read more