How do people sell their data? Individuals have certainly tried — offering it up on eBay is one tactic that goes all the way back to the year 2000. But almost two decades on from that early attempt, and despite the fact that the personal data market … Read more
Table of ContentsObjectiveShow me the DATA!AdministratorsHow to become an administrator?Fund governance and decision makingFund allocation examples Objective In line with doubling down on our commitment to decentralization across all areas of the Streamr project, Streamr is excited to launch our Community Fund. It’s hoped that this fund … Read more
During my time as a Guardian journalist, the then Readers’ Editor, Chris Elliott, told me a story. Not long after launching the paper’s website, in 1999, the office began receiving cheques. Loyal readers wanted to offer payment for what they’d read online, as they were … Read more
It has been a while since I’ve written about Streamr design, so I thought I’d share a preview of what the design team will be rolling out to production early next year. To understand what we’ve been doing, it helps to have a bit of … Read more
Video Script In this tutorial I will be covering two main aspects: This demo is built around the use case of a transportation company servicing refrigerated goods. We want to give clients a solution to monitor the condition of their products during the journey in … Read more
Streamr is proud to announce the integration of three new products to our award-winning real-time data Marketplace today. Atmotrack, which is offering street level pollution data, Cryptoquote’s cryptocurrency firehose, and TraderMade’s foreign exchange data are currently available to purchase by application builders looking to improve … Read more
Over this last weekend (30 Nov — 2 Dec) Streamr was invited to contribute to a hackathon organized by the International Air Transportation Association (aka IATA), in Lapland, which focused primarily on airline retail industry. Streamr was the sole blockchain API provider at this hackathon and we … Read more
It’s been a busy few months at Streamr and with new opportunities on the horizon including the development of the Network, Community Products and further pilots to establish, we’ve been hiring to ensure that we can complete our technical milestones on time, and also help … Read more
Welcome to November’s Dev Update! For anyone who counts themselves part of the Ethereum community, Devcon is the highlight of the year. Well, we found ourselves so (re-)inspired by the brilliantly dedicated people in the space that we wrote a blog post about the ways … Read more
Web3 Summit in Berlin in Oct 2018: the Open Source movement has never been so vibrant This year marks 20 years after the term “Open Source” was first coined. Earlier this month John Edwards, a reporter at InformationWeek, asked Streamr project contributors a bunch of questions … Read more
Back at the start of the Autumn, Henri, myself and a few others in the Streamr team received an email from one of our most trusted advisors, the enigmatic Mr X (he likes his privacy). He was in the shower, he said, when it struck … Read more
Streamr to attend IATA’s hackathon in Lapland as the sole blockchain provider We have some nice news. Following an invitation from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Streamr will be travelling to Lapland, Finland on 29 November to participate in their upcoming hackathon. The event … Read more
Welcome to October’s Developer update! Over the last month the dev team has been pushing hard on four fronts: The Network, Community Products, Usability and Stability. The frontend team has been focusing on improving the usability of the Marketplace, implementing some minor bug fixes and … Read more
Earlier this month, Henri was interviewed by Anna Rose and Fredrik Harryson from Zero Knowledge. The interview was so good, rich and full of detail, that we decided to transcribe it in full. (Thanks Mikhael Santos for starting this process). And a warning: there might … Read more
Juuso (first row left) Wei (second from the right row) and Julieta (middle of second row) with the winners of our Mexican Hackathon in mid-September Welcome to our Dev Update covering August and most of September. The first thing you might notice is that I’m … Read more
Last week, Streamr was in Mexico, co-organising and hosting our very first hackathon! It was truly amazing to see scores of students all interacting with Streamr technology and getting excited by our decentralizing mission. I thought I’d write up my thoughts in this blog to … Read more
Blockchain-backed data platform Streamr announce pilot project to build nationwide traffic model of Georgia Streamr, the blockchain-backed data platform, is deepening its relationship with decentralized location data market Fysical to use realtime aggregated location to more accurately inform and shape traffic models. The collaboration will … Read more
Streamr founder Henri Pihkala isn’t just the company’s technical figurehead, his ideas, enthusiasm and experience are a key way for us to spread the word about what it is we’re doing, why we’re doing it and who we’re doing it for. It seems barely a … Read more
Table of ContentsWhat is the Streamr Network?Doesn’t such a protocol exist already?How does Streamr solve the problems of scalability and economic incentives?What is the Streamr Network today, and what is the roadmap?Monk (current version)Corea (WIP)BrubeckTatum What is the Streamr Network? The Streamr Network is a scalable realtime messaging system, which … Read more
Streamr winning at Startup Autobahn Blockchain-backed data platform, Streamr, joins previous winners Porsche and Daimler in receiving Plug and Play Global Innovation Award for Partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Streamr, the blockchain-backed data platform, last night won the Plug and Play Global Innovation Award for Exceptional … Read more