Streamr to attend IATA’s hackathon in Lapland as the sole blockchain provider We have some nice news. Following an invitation from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Streamr will be travelling to Lapland, Finland on 29 November to participate in their upcoming hackathon. The event … Read more
Streamr winning at Startup Autobahn Blockchain-backed data platform, Streamr, joins previous winners Porsche and Daimler in receiving Plug and Play Global Innovation Award for Partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Streamr, the blockchain-backed data platform, last night won the Plug and Play Global Innovation Award for Exceptional … Read more
TL;DR — Consensus was totally worth it. No argument — our pavilion rocked. We learned lessons and our Data Marketplace can only improve from here on. Streamr co-founder Nikke Nylund helping to demonstrate our Data Marketplace to guests at our pavilion It has been two weeks since we travelled back … Read more
Erecting a building, one that will stand the test of time, starts with the slow, long and inglorious work of digging and laying solid foundations. When it comes to forging business partnerships, the equivalent process means meeting, discussing, testing, brainstorming and strategising before finally, both … Read more
Let’s get something out of the way. Identity design — or branding if you don’t mind having scorched cattle come to mind — is perhaps the design discipline that can be most, er … full of it. There’s hundreds of Behance posts of fox or eagle icons conforming perfectly to … Read more
Curiosity about the Streamr project from the community continues to grow, along with the broader interest in decentralised applications, blockchain technology and smart contacts. Three-and-a-half months on from our crowdfunding, many of you out there have sent us some really in-depth questions with a number … Read more
Last week we announced some big news. For a few months, you’ve been telling us that you wanted a roadmap with firmer timetables. Needless to say, your opinions are super important to us, so we’ve acted. In our monthly update vlog Transmission #3 I announced … Read more
Dear community, We’ve never worked so hard, so focused, and so inspired than during the past one and a half years or so. During that time we have fallen in love with the decentralised and blockchain technology, and found a way to apply our expertise, … Read more
EDIT: Postponed pre-contribution period by 48 hours to start on Thursday, September 14th at 12:00 UTC If you’re new to Streamr, this video explains Streamr in 2 minutes. The characteristics of the whole Streamr system are described in detail on our website and in our … Read more
We last visited Amsterdam and Bitcoin Wednesday in July, with Henri giving a talk on the Streamr vision for a low-latency, scalable, decentralized stack for real-time data. Frans Kempen from IBM was kind enough to chair the session. He even found the time to interview … Read more
(If you can’t watch the video, find the text below): Streamr aims to tokenize the value in real-time data. For example, let’s consider a self-driving electric car. For optimal operation, it constantly needs data from other machines, such as traffic congestion information from other cars, … Read more
We are often asked which are the first use cases for a decentralized data stack like the one we envisage at Streamr. What we know is that the list of likely use cases is long, ranging from environmental monitoring, secure chat channels, pay-by-use metering, peer-to-peer … Read more
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in our blockchain life, it’s the immense value of the community. We’re really excited about the opportunity to work with the talented people in the space, and to help build resilient and decentralized infrastructure to power the hugely scalable … Read more
Building decentralized infrastructure for resilient and hugely scalable Ðapps is exciting, and the potential rewards for the community and the citizenry are immense. But nobody ever said that the work will be easy. The technology is cutting edge, the problems are new, and the past … Read more
At EDCON Paris 2017, we met Mona El Isa and were struck by the ingenuity of the Melonport vision: a platform for asset management on the blockchain which allows anyone to set up well-designed, trustworthy funds and portfolios of digital investment instruments. Quite revolutionary! Saying … Read more
We’ve met with the Oraclize people a few times, and we love what they do. There are also important synergies in what Streamr and Oraclize can do together. Let me explain, and show an example. For fun, and to demonstrate Streamr and Oraclize working in … Read more
We very much like working with like-minded folks in the blockchain space. An opportunity for one interesting project arose earlier this year when we met Frederic Vedrunes of PassLfix at EDCON 2017. When we met, Frederic outlined the idea of a decentralized, data-driven app where … Read more
There’s a revolution brewing in computing infrastructure. The winning architecture will be decentralized apps (Ðapps): Front-ends served to the browser from decentralized storage, and back-ends implemented as smart contracts living on the blockchain. This stack has many desirable properties: It makes applications naturally resistant to … Read more
What are the future implications of massively distributed, decentralised databases enabled by blockchains? Will it some day be possible to have a significant share of new data generated in the world — data from IoT, social media, stock exchanges and so on — pass through a blockchain-powered system for … Read more
We made the case for Streamr in the Arctic15 pitching competition on June 3rd in Helsinki. The above video shows Henri, our CTO, on the stage in the final round. Henri was on the roll in front of a jury chaired by Tim Draper. We … Read more