Collecting metrics data from decentralized systems

Collecting metrics data from decentralized systems

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

Helium & Streamr

Helium & Streamr: an end-to-end pipeline for connecting, delivering, and monetizing IoT Data

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

What the EU’s Digital Markets Act means for Data Unions

What the EU’s Digital Markets Act means for Data Unions

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

Data Unions review

Data Unions – 12 months in review

As the launch of the Data Unions 2.0 framework draws near we thought we’d do a roundup of all that has happened on the Data Union front for the last 12 months. This time last year, just as the lockdown was about to hit a … Read more

Top 5 projects in the Streamr Data Challenge

Meet the Top 5 projects from the Streamr Data Challenge

The Streamr Data Challenge, based in India, brought together a talented set of developers in an open innovation program, inviting them to create valuable data economies through the Streamr Data Union framework. By integrating with the Data Union framework, participating developers can easily bundle and … Read more

Meet the finalists of the Streamr Data Challenge

Meet the finalists of the Streamr Data Challenge

After four exciting months, we’re ready to announce the shortlisted Top 20 teams of the Streamr Data Challenge. The Streamr Data Challenge engaged developers to create more valuable data economies through Data Unions. So what are Data Unions? They are a means to create ethical … Read more

Dev Update, December - January

Dev Update, December – January

Welcome to the January 2021 developer update. It’s been a strong start to the year, with great progress being made toward one of the biggest milestones of the project – Brubeck. The Brubeck milestone signals a phase transition for the project, where anyone in the … Read more

The SIP-1 & SIP-2 voting results are in!

The SIP-1 & SIP-2 voting results are in!

The first round of Streamr Governance has come to a successful end and the voting booth is now closed. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening. Over the past two weeks, the Streamr community has been discussing the first two Streamr Improvement Proposals for … Read more

Streamr DAO governance

Kickstarting Streamr Governance

*Update 16/02/21, voting has now finished. The Streamr community voted in favour of SIP 1 & 2. See the results. Holders of DATA, the utility token that powers the Streamr ecosystem, will be able to vote on Streamr protocol governance decisions starting from February 11th, … Read more

Data Challenge

Adding Value to Indian Devs & Entrepreneurs with the Streamr Data Challenge

The Streamr Data Challenge brought together a talented set of developers who are using Streamr to build interesting solutions to real-world problems. With a vision to evangelise the value of decentralized data to Indian developers and entrepreneurs, the Data Challenge has created a community of … Read more

Data Landscape predictions

2021 Data Monetization Predictions

First of all, what is a Data Union? A Data Union is a framework that allows people to easily bundle and sell their real-time data and earn revenue. On its own, our data does not hold much value, but when combined in a Data Union, … Read more

Data Is Labor: Why We Need Data Unions

Data Is Labor: Why We Need Data Unions

In the aftermath of a divisive U.S. presidential election that seems to mark the tail end of the 20th Century, I’m reminded of the daughters of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The “Mill Girls” of Lowell, Mass., made up 75% of all textile workers … Read more

How the data landscape in India is on the verge of a makeover

How the data landscape in India is on the verge of a makeover

Table of ContentsPrivacy as a Fundamental Right – 2017Protecting Consumer Data – 2018Data Protection Bill – 2019Explicit User ConsentPersonal Data as PropertyThe Verification Tag2020 – Splinternet?The Future of Data Privacy in India Privacy as a Fundamental Right – 2017 The 21st century is often referred … Read more

Dev Update, November 2020

Dev Update, November 2020

Welcome to the November Developer update – our last update of 2020! It’s been another fruitful month in terms of roadmap progress and Data Union growth. We’ve seen a big uptick in developer interest towards building Data Unions, in part from our recent update to … Read more