In a recent governance vote, SIP-1, DATA holders decided to move to a new token smart contract. Along with some technical improvements, the updated token smart contract enables the token supply to be increased based on decisions made by the governance process. Before we get … Read more
Special Focus on Brubeck Edition™ Part II The Brubeck milestone is coming this year. There will be a new broker node that has the combined functionality of a Streamr client and a network node, enhanced with a plugin architecture; simple, powerful and extensible. Before the … Read more
From the June 18th of June to the 9th of July, Streamr was a proud participant and Sponsor of Hack Money, a virtual DeFi hackathon focusing on the creation of fairer and freer finance through tech. The event saw over 1000 engineers, designers, and creators … Read more
We’re pleased to announce a new contest for the Streamr Wolf Pack – we want to see the best Streamr use case ideas the community has to offer! If you have an idea for an app, integration, tool, or problem that can be plausibly solved … Read more
Time to talk about the DATA token economics of the Streamr Network! The token economics will be released in the 2024 milestone (1.0), and actual implementation work will start as soon as this year’s Testnets have completed. Although the current state of research and planning … Read more
Table of ContentsSpecial Focus on Brubeck Edition™ Part ISo when can I run a Node?So what do I need to run a node?Do I need $DATA to run a Brubeck testnet node?About Token MigrationChangesNext up Special Focus on Brubeck Edition™ Part I Since the latest … Read more
For the first two rounds of Streamr governance voting, only the Streamr team were able to submit governance proposals. This was a temporary limitation to first get some hands-on experience with how the Snapshot tool works, and to learn what participation level can roughly be … Read more
We heard you loud and clear. You want more marketing. That’s why we’re launching the Wolfpack – a marketing Data Union that pays you for your engagement on Twitter. Over the years we’ve created tons of content, from blog posts to videos to talks to … Read more
Web 3.0 is the future, but one big piece is still currently missing on the decentralized web. Real-time data. Nfty DM shows why real-time data will become an important lego piece in the web 3.0 stack. Right now there’s no easy way for NFT creators … Read more
There are a few weeks to go until we will run the first of several Brubeck Testnets. If you’re interested in running a node you can sign up to the waitlist right now! During these first testnets we want to trial the Network’s capabilities, before … Read more
The Q2 round of the Streamr governance voting has come to a successful end and voting has now closed. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening. Several Streamr Improvement Proposals (SIPs) were put forward over the last couple of weeks: You can read about … Read more
Last week, we published a Streamr Improvement Proposal (SIP) about launching the Data Union DAO and UNION token. In this blog, we’ll introduce three other SIPs that will be part of this quarterly round of Streamr governance voting. All four proposals will be open for … Read more
There are several interesting Streamr Improvement Proposals (SIPs) lined up for the Q2 round of Streamr governance voting. In this blog post, I’ll introduce one of them in detail: Table of ContentsSIP-3: Launch a DAO and UNION token for the Data Union frameworkProposal for launching … Read more
While we’ve recently increased our development efforts and communications around the Streamr Network in preparation for shipping the Brubeck milestone this year, we are also continuing to push the Data Unions framework forward as a key deliverable of the Streamr project alongside the Network. As … Read more
We thought we’d give an update on some of the changes and events taking place in the Streamr community. In the last six months, we have relaunched the Data Fund, migrated to a new platform, and shared a number of AMAs and updates on project … Read more
Streamr is excited to announce a collaborative partnership with Tapmydata, a leading mobile app, helping users to take back control of their data. As a pioneering Data Union, Tapmydata (Tap) set out with a simple mission: to help people take back control of their data. … Read more
The Streamr team made a herculean effort over March to release the Data Unions Framework upgrade, which is now live on xDai. While the launch had our focus, it didn’t stop the grassroots ecosystem developments happening at the network layer. Here are the highlights from … Read more
All decentralized networks, including blockchains and other P2P systems face the technical problem of how to gather metrics and statistics from nodes run by many different parties. Achieving this isn’t exactly trivial, and there are no established best practices. We faced this problem ourselves while … Read more
Update: This blog details connection to the centralized and deprecated Streamr Network. Checkout the new blog detailing the connection between the decentralized Streamr Network and Helium: https://blog.helium.com/helium-x-streamr-ea89c4b61a14 Picture this. You’ve deployed coverage on the Helium Network using one of the approved Hotspots. As is … Read more
New EU regulation will make real-time data portability mandatory for big platform operators. GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) will have to give both business users and end users the right to port their data in realtime through APIs – third parties will be also allowed … Read more