We are happy to announce that Streamr has been accepted into the select group of 100 validators securing the Polygon network! A validator node run by the Streamr team is already up and running and successfully participating in Polygon’s proof-of-stake consensus and L2 checkpointing protocols. … Read more
StreamTeam month #1 is complete! Well done Streamrs and congrats to our winners of the first ever StreamTeam marketing contest! Let’s dive into the learnings from November and the new features added this month just in time for Christmas 🎅. Show me the numbers! 📊 … Read more
It’s time for another round of Streamr governance voting! This post attempts to collect all proposals shared by Streamr contributors and and community members on #governance channel and elsewhere on Discord, and assign SIP (Streamr Improvement Proposal) codes to them to help refer to them … Read more
Whoa there! What a bonkers couple of weeks in the crypto world. Even for seasoned OGs, events of the last couple of weeks have left us all a little shaken. This time it’s driven by the shenanigans over at FTX. While we have been entertained … Read more
“Hang on, wtf are sNFTs?” I hear you ask … Here’s the TLDR: there’s a brand new type of token on the scene that is non-transferable, meaning it cannot be sent to another wallet, but is shareable, meaning a copy can be minted to someone … Read more
Lately it’s been a bit quiet in terms of Streamr governance, as some improvements to the Snapshot setup were necessary to support voting with DATA tokens on various chains, as well as building tooling to help major node runners to vote. Now those improvements are … Read more
Want to help us spread the word about Streamr? Got a spare 5 minutes every day and a love for Web3? Welcome to the club! 🤝 🎉 StreamTeam is a fun monthly bounty competition to win $DATA prizes, NFTs, and other goodies by helping us … Read more
We were delighted to sponsor ETH Global’s ETH Online 2022 hackathon, offering three tiers of prizes to Web3 developers who build with the Streamr Network. The Streamr protocol has a wide range of applications for Web3 projects, such as implementing real-time chat features and notifications, … Read more
In the past six months or so, Streamr has been working closely together with the newly established Data Union DAO to mutually support important upgrades in both projects. For the uninitiated, Data Unions are a way to let crowds of people earn by sharing data, … Read more
Secure communication entails three main security properties: confidentiality, authenticity and integrity. In the Streamr Network, data authenticity and integrity have been guaranteed using cryptographic signing and verification since the Corea milestone in 2020. Since the launch of the Brubeck milestone earlier this year, the data … Read more
Streamr Co-Founder Henri Pihkala is interviewed by the Cybernews Team. The below transcript was originally posted on the Cybernews website 02/08/2022. These days, the need for quality data-sharing solutions is rapidly increasing. However, creating such solutions presents more challenges than building simple messaging apps. The … Read more
With phrases such as “data is the new oil” verging on cliché territory, there’s little question that the world has woken up to the potential in the 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated every day. However, perhaps a still underappreciated attribute that drives value in … Read more
Thank you to everyone who entered round two of the Streamr Network Bonus Rewards contest. It’s possible for almost any device with a stable internet connection to run a node and stake in the decentralized Streamr Network, so we’re always interested to see the diverse … Read more
Forecasting the future is a tricky business, but an ambitious new project from developer Jordan Miller, sponsored by the Data Fund, will leverage the Streamr Network to provide a better than chance real-time data prediction engine. Satori nodes need to communicate with each other and … Read more
We often hear that the Streamr tech stack sounds interesting in theory, but it’s tricky to understand exactly where and how to deploy it in practice. Let’s take a break from Web3 and look at some subjects in need of a data upgrade to imagine … Read more
We asked, you responded, let’s take a look at the results and learnings from the 2022 Streamr community survey. I will discuss the findings and suggest some practical takeaways for Streamr—primarily with regard to marketing and communication. 62 people responded to the survey, so the … Read more
We really enjoyed seeing your Brubeck setups in the testnet bonus rewards contest from last year, so now it’s time to show us your nodes again for round two following the successful launch of the Brubeck Mainnet. How to enter Tweet a picture of your … Read more
How many people have heard about NFTs in recent months? Many. Who really understands what a Non Fungible Token is? Likely not so many. Let’s see what this means in concrete terms. Today, any individual can create or buy an NFT with the hope of … Read more
We built the Marketplace dApp as an interesting use case for the Streamr Network, unlocking data monetisation by allowing users to put a price tag onto the streams they’re publishing. However, there hasn’t been much activity on the Marketplace for a long while, partly due … Read more
It’s just over two years since the last Streamr survey—and with a lot of new faces in the community following the recent launch of the Brubeck Mainnet, we think the time is right to gather your feedback and get to know you all better. The … Read more