We are often asked which are the first use cases for a decentralized data stack like the one we envisage at Streamr. What we know is that the list of likely use cases is long, ranging from environmental monitoring, secure chat channels, pay-by-use metering, peer-to-peer … Read more
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in our blockchain life, it’s the immense value of the community. We’re really excited about the opportunity to work with the talented people in the space, and to help build resilient and decentralized infrastructure to power the hugely scalable … Read more
Building decentralized infrastructure for resilient and hugely scalable Ðapps is exciting, and the potential rewards for the community and the citizenry are immense. But nobody ever said that the work will be easy. The technology is cutting edge, the problems are new, and the past … Read more
What is the most powerful prediction engine in the world? A crystal ball? A deep neural network? The human brain? The collective brainpower of mankind? The collective wisdom of the crowd (including algorithms too) can produce unbeatable future estimates of asset values, sports outcomes, and … Read more
At EDCON Paris 2017, we met Mona El Isa and were struck by the ingenuity of the Melonport vision: a platform for asset management on the blockchain which allows anyone to set up well-designed, trustworthy funds and portfolios of digital investment instruments. Quite revolutionary! Saying … Read more
We’ve met with the Oraclize people a few times, and we love what they do. There are also important synergies in what Streamr and Oraclize can do together. Let me explain, and show an example. For fun, and to demonstrate Streamr and Oraclize working in … Read more
We very much like working with like-minded folks in the blockchain space. An opportunity for one interesting project arose earlier this year when we met Frederic Vedrunes of PassLfix at EDCON 2017. When we met, Frederic outlined the idea of a decentralized, data-driven app where … Read more
A fascinating blog post written last year by Golem Factory CTO Piotr Janiuk describes an imaginary application called Hyperbrick, which allows users to combine microservices into workflows. By happy coincidence, the Streamr Engine and Streamr Editor, as presented in our DATAcoin white paper draft, is … Read more
There’s a revolution brewing in computing infrastructure. The winning architecture will be decentralized apps (Ðapps): Front-ends served to the browser from decentralized storage, and back-ends implemented as smart contracts living on the blockchain. This stack has many desirable properties: It makes applications naturally resistant to … Read more
What are the future implications of massively distributed, decentralised databases enabled by blockchains? Will it some day be possible to have a significant share of new data generated in the world — data from IoT, social media, stock exchanges and so on — pass through a blockchain-powered system for … Read more
It was the summer of 2012 when we put our thinking hats on to try and solve a particular problem that was collectively driving us more than a bit mad: It was extremely difficult to build and even more so to test trading algorithms based … Read more
We made the case for Streamr in the Arctic15 pitching competition on June 3rd in Helsinki. The above video shows Henri, our CTO, on the stage in the final round. Henri was on the roll in front of a jury chaired by Tim Draper. We … Read more
Why world-changing ideas are now born in hackathons. At Streamr, we’re very happy to have recently won the Kone Hackathon 2016 with our telepathic elevator concept. To celebrate that, we decided to share with the world why we think hacking and hackathons are so awesome … Read more