Welcome to the October project dev update! This month has been busy – our long awaited Data Unions launch commenced, and we began our marketing push to developers around the world. We also announced the Streamr Data Challenge, a hackathon for India-based developers and teams. … Read more
The Streamr Data Fund provides funds to people and projects working with the Streamr stack to create and support real-time data projects. As it stands, there are 7.5 million DATA tokens left to award to prospective builders from an initial pot of 10 million. Funds … Read more
In today’s data-centric age, managing data and protecting user data is a top priority. The world as we know it has the capacity to generate large amounts of data. This year, every person on earth is estimated to generate 1.7 megabytes of data, every second. … Read more
TX – Tomorrow Explored is helping organisations to leverage the Streamr technology stack to engineer value from data in ways that benefit business and consumers. Consumers are becoming more and more distrustful of organisations using their data. While regulation like the GDPR in Europe is … Read more
Data is eating the world. Every aspect of our digital life is generating data points, which are fed into algorithms that give us a smart experience in return for convenience and efficiency. From the traffic data on our favourite maps client, to the compelling advertisement … Read more
We’re excited to announce that we’re bringing Streamr to one of the biggest developer talent pools in the world – India. At Streamr, we’re always looking for opportunities to push innovation in the realm of data innovation and build decentralized data economies. With this vision, … Read more
Today, Streamr is announcing a partnership with GSMA, the industry body for mobile telecom communications. Streamr and GSMA have partnered to allow three mobile network operators (MNOs) to monetise their user data ethically. GSMA and Streamr will work together to deliver a technological accelerator programme … Read more
Welcome to the September project dev update! Streamr has earned a bit of a reputation for ending the year strong and as we round out Q3 2020 it’s clear that this year will be no exception. Here are the main dev highlights of the month: … Read more
Table of Contents1). How are Data Unions ethically different from Big Tech, seeing as they are trading user data? Yes users can consent, but why get involved in this sordid industry at all2). Surely user data can still be exploited for unscrupulous means by unethical … Read more
We can probably all agree that what’s been happening so far in 2020 has been unprecedented. From the pandemic, to wildfires, to the tensions around the upcoming presidential elections in the US – our control over the events around us seems to be slipping away, … Read more
Streamr’s Head of Growth, Shiv Malik recently held an AMA on Data Unions for the GAINS Telegram community. Their questions led to an insightful discussion that we’ve condensed into this blog post. Table of ContentsWhat is the project about in a few simple sentences?Okay, sounds … Read more
Although summer is usually a time to take things slow, this year we decided to lean in, ship, publish, and as always, make steady progress towards our longer-term vision of full decentralization. Here are the some of the highlights: Table of ContentsNetwork findingsNetwork DevelopmentsToken economics … Read more
The Streamr project is pleased to announce that Matthew Fontana has been appointed as Head of Developer Relations. Matthew will be starting the role a few weeks before the expected public launch of the Streamr Data Union framework – where developers can build applications that … Read more
Data Unions are more than just a new data monetisation strategy- they are the beginning of a new relationship between creators and their users. This post serves as a getting started guide for those creators that are ready to get building. Data Unions (DUs) enable … Read more
The Corea milestone of the Streamr Network went live in late 2019. Since then a few people in the team have been working on an academic whitepaper to describe its design principles, position it with respect to prior art, and prove certain properties it has. … Read more
Between 2000 to 2018, the global value of goods exported has shot from 6.45 trillion to 19.5 trillion U.S. dollars. With an increasing demand for exported products, there is also an increasing demand for accurate traceability data. According to the 2019 Food and Health Survey, … Read more
Table of ContentsCan’t Touch ThisBe Less the new More (For More we cannot afford)Make it ‘till you Fake itTech, tech-enabled and tick-tacksThe Network2.0Wrapping Up Can’t Touch This Warren Buffet was once asked why he owned a 5% stake in The Walt Disney Company. In his … Read more
This is the Streamr project dev update for June 2020, welcome! Here are the highlights of the month: Table of ContentsData Unions in public betaUpcoming Data Unions architectureNetwork whitepaperPhase 1 with BlockScience completedEnd-to-end encryption with key exchangeLooking forwardNetworkData UnionsCore app, Marketplace, WebsiteDeprecations and breaking changes … Read more
In May, I published a lengthy essay on why, for ordinary individuals, privacy was dead and how a framework of data ownership would provide not just more privacy, but also much more data sharing, economic equality and dignity for the billions of people who use … Read more
As of today, you can create and deploy a Data Union using the tooling available in Streamr Core. The Data Union framework, now released in public beta, is an implementation of data crowdselling. By integrating into the framework, app developers can empower their users to … Read more