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 and TX join the ATARCA (Accounting Technologies for Anti-Rival Coordination and Allocation) consortium to explore new economic systems for industrial data markets. A new economic category for abundant goods — anti-rival goods that increase in value when shared — forms the basis of research … Read more
*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
Our friends at MyData Global are organising the annual gathering for anyone in the data space. From the 10th to the 12th December, hundreds of entrepreneurs, builders, researchers and activists will be joining MyData’s three-day online conference to talk about how to bring positive change … Read more
Streamr and API3 join forces to bring Streamr data streams to smart contracts and decentralized applications, via first-party oracles. Traditionally, data providers have had to rely on third-party oracle solutions to connect their data to blockchain-based applications. This meant that providers were required to either … Read more
Testing the tokenomics of the Streamr Network with a digital twin The Streamr team is currently designing the tokenomics for the Streamr Network, with support from the guys at BlockScience. Streamr’s CEO and co-founder Henri got together with Marek Laskowski, Jeff Emmett, and Michael Zargham … 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
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
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
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
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
Today marks a major upgrade to the Marketplace: the Streamr Marketplace has integrated with Uniswap — in addition to DATA, buyers can now spend ETH or DAI, the decentralized stablecoin from MakerDAO, to pay for all data products. What is Uniswap? Uniswap is a token-swapping … Read more
Streamr is proudly announcing a new integration with the leading global cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. As of today, Binance’s real-time trades and quotes data for all asset pairs will be offered as a free product on the Streamr permissionless Marketplace. The new offering means that Binance … Read more
Inspired by the Community Fund, Streamr recently conducted a survey to better understand the community and gain insights into the effectiveness of Streamr messaging. Below is a summary of the most insightful answers and Streamr’s response (qualitative answers have been summarised by theme and incorporated … Read more
In October 2019, The Swash app launched in beta. Since then, it has grown to over 1,000 active members who have chosen to collectively sell their browsing data on the Streamr Marketplace. The team have been busy gathering user feedback to combat bugs, add features, … Read more
Next week, we’ll be back in Denver! We had a great time last year; meeting old and new friends, participating in panels and showcasing Monoplasma. Since then, a lot has happened, and we’re excited to share our recent developments with the Ethereum community. This year, … Read more
Following revelations that the antivirus software provider Avast was harvesting and selling its customers’ browsing data through a subsidiary called Jumpshot, the subsidiary company, valued at $180 million, has been shut down with immediate effect. Shiv Malik, Streamr’s Head of Growth said, “Everyone at the … Read more
Welcome to this overview of Streamr’s ecosystem growth over 2019. This blog is intended to provide a recap of the project’s current state, share some of the major events that happened during last year, and also highlight some of the successful steps we took in … Read more
Most technology products that are purported to be easy-to-use are oftentimes not so in practice. The reality is that what tech people think is “easy” is not the same as what grandma thinks is easy. Grandma was not going to explore the Web in 1993 … Read more