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
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