has put out since then has been very technical in nature, including the Livepeer whitepaper which outlines a protocol for securely creating and incentivizing a decentralized network. In summary, the Livepeer protocol incentivizes nodes to contribute their processing and bandwidth to the network in service of transcoding and distributing live video. The verification of work is solved by a scalable extension on top of the Truebit protocol which incentivizes nodes to perform transcoding operations correctly in order to earn their fees and token allocations and preserve their value earning a role as a transcoder. The gamification of the network and falsework problem is solved via the economics of the delegated proof of stake block reward accounting. It becomes more economically rational to simply stake one’s tokens towards a value-adding node than to pay fees into the network to be distributed to other delegators when performing work that there wasn’t actually real demand for. The end result is a scalable, pay-as-you-go network for decentralized live video broadcast — a missing layer in the web3 stack that Livepeer seeks to fill.Subscribe to Livepeer’s blog to be up to date. Livepeer is an open, community-driven project. The software is open-source on Github and under active development. There is also a nascent forum and chatroom for questions and discussion. Please get involved!See also Raphaela Sapire’s presentation on How Blockchain Can Shift the Paradigm of Video Streaming to get more inspiration:DLive: Live Streaming Community PewDieDie Fled To From Youtube And TwitchDLive calls itself a “disruptive live streaming platform,” and it has a unique hook. It was built using Lino, a decentralized blockchain that was founded in 2017. After Lino raised $20 million in funding, DLive launched in September 2018. According to Variety, it has about 30 employees.DLive allows streamers to earn without high commitment compared to other streaming platforms that require minimums on metrics like stream time, streams, followers/subscribers, etc. Another problem that DLive currently solves is cashing out from the platform to usable funds. An example is Live.me where users are required to reach a minimum of $200 before they are able to withdraw as well as a daily limit of $600.How Does It Work?From the viewer’s perspective, DLive is basically exactly like Twitch. Viewers can subscribe to streams by paying a monthly fee, which will get their messages noticed by the streamer more often.LINO Points are DLive’s currency of choice. The cryptocurrency is how users give donations and get rewards across the platform. 88 Lino points translate to $1.22 and can be purchased on the site using PayPal or a credit card.Viewers can donate a little as one LINO Point, referred to as a “Lemon,” or up to 10,000 LINO Points, known as a Ninjet directly to a streamer.DLive explains that 90.1 percent of subscription earnings and one-time donations go straight to the content creator. The remaining 9.9 percent is deposited into a pool of “Locked LINO,” which is awarded to the most engaged users.Viewers who subscribe to steamers and avidly converse with DLive’s community will gain a little reward in the form of Lock LINO Points every day. Based on their engagement rate, a small sum of the online currency will be redeemable by simply logging in and clicking the yellow “Redeem Now” button in the notification window at the top right of the site.Team DLive explains that these points can be immediately gifted to a streamer or transferred to PayPal or into Bitcoin if they want to cash out. Locked points holders also get access to a few unique perks.Viewers can get rewards by avidly engaging with the community.Anyone with locked LINO Points in their account will be able to shape the direction DLive moves in the future. The live streaming site offers daily questionnaires available only to Locked LINO Point owners.These questionnaires will allow engaged users to vote on decisions relating to the network, and put in requests or vote on future feature upgrades. This way the most active participants in the community have a voice as to the direction of where the site is going (and where the decentralized part comes in).The more locked points you have the more daily rewards you get and the more DLive clout you will eventually have. Users can “lock” their standard LINO Points to boost this number, but they’ll need a minimum of 1,000 to make that transaction.How to cash out your LINO points.If users are in this for the money, you can easily transfer your points to a PayPal or Bitcoin by navigating to the “Get Paid” tab found in the top-right drop-down menu. To liquidate your LINO points you’ll need a minimum of 2,000 and you’ll need to request payment at least three days before Thursday and Sunday. Users can either plug in their Bitcoin wallet address or use their email to transfer the funds to their PayPal. If you signed up for the site with a different email address than your PayPal account, you’ll either have to make another DLive account with your PayPal email address or make a new PayPal.This Spring, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, YouTube’s most popular content creator has penned a deal with DLive. Kjellberg announced that he would be doing a new weekly live stream on DLive in a YouTube video posted that has been viewed 4.6 million times. His reasons, he explained, were largely economic.He’s still got a bit of catch-up to play when it comes to his YouTube, which has more than 93 million subscribers, many who subscribe so they can tune in whenever Kjellberg streams live. While he says he won’t stop uploading his widely popular “Meme Review” videos on YouTube, Kjellberg has stated that DLive will be the exclusive place to catch his live streams for the foreseeable future.Kjellberg announces his partnership with DLive on his YouTube channel:DLive’s previous biggest name streamer was alt-right star Alex Jones, but he was recently banned for violating the platform’s hate speech guidelines.This October the project announced its partnership with Theta Network. With the infrastructure provided from Theta_Network, DLive will roll out peer-to-peer video relaying of the video content soon to its users!MTonomy: Bringing Streaming Video To EthereumBased in Cambridge, MTonomy was founded by a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Media lab’s Digital Currency Initiative, from which a number of famous Bitcoin developers have worked through, including Gavin Andresen, with advisors including Twitter and Square co-founder Dorsey. It already operates a cryptocurrency-based VoD application for consumers.It is a Netflix, Google Play, or Amazon Prime experience for Ethereum users. MTonomy went live this May.It does use Ethereum to process payments. Metadata is stored in smart contracts. To deliver a good experience, it uses the same enterprise-level servers that others use. It has encryption and Digital Rights Management protection. Content creators get the same level of protection they would elsewhere.Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Google Play accounts are frequently hacked and trafficked on the dark web. This is not an issue with the MTonomy system. Thieves would also have to compromise the Ethereum wallets of the associated accounts.MTonomy makes it possible to seamlessly track deals, intuitively search available rights, and securely host terabytes of content in the cloud to enable rapid delivery and simple management of assets. MTonomy’s user-friendly design makes the system so intuitive to use that no training or setup costs are required.The industry got its first look at the system at the Cannes Film Festival this year where Indie Rights, a global film distribution company with hundreds of features in its catalog, partnered with MTonomy.com to demonstrate the power, efficiency, and functionality of MTonomy’s unified rights, deals, and content platform.On MTonomy.com, you can use your ether (a cryptocurrency) to rent and purchase hard-to-find films, documentaries, and theatrical shows on-demand.See what you can watch today, and explore how simple it is to rent or buy films with your ether.New content is released every 24 hours on MTonomy.com for the entire year of 2019, from movies and TV shows to documentaries and digital shorts.Get involved in Slack to share your favorite content and influence what comes next to Ethereum users. See MTonomy on Twitter.LBRY: A Secure, Open, And Community-Run Digital MarketplaceEach service is rigorously peer-to-peer in giving publishers full control over their content without disintermediation by a central gateway or restriction, control or governance by the community. LBRY is typical is stating bluntly that “no party other than the publisher (including us) can unilaterally remove or block content” on its blockchain-based environment.LBRY is a protocol providing a fully decentralized network for the discovery, distribution, and payment of data. It utilizes the LBRY blockchain as a global namespace and database of digital content. Blockchain entries contain searchable content metadata, identities, and rights and access rules. The decentralized market for all digital items and content. It provides a global and censorship-resistant platform for content creators to sell their ebooks, art, music, videos, etc without the need to pay a middleman. Any content that is uploaded to the LBRY network remains accessible to the public as long as the community finds it valuable and continues to host it.Founders Jeremy Kauffman and Mike Vine wanted to decentralize the way things are shared and published throughout the internet. The two believe there is no system that services the needs of individuals by rewarding the artist directly and provides no room for improvement. The traditional organizations and platforms that provide various forms of online media from books to music and film have all monopolized the state of the market, and it’s getting harder for an artist to grow in this stagnate arena. With no point of authority, LBRY’s system gives individuals control over their media instead of being subjected to rules they never agreed to.LBRY in 100 Seconds:YouTube, Netflix, Apple TV, and other services are centralized platforms controlled by a single corporate entity. These companies have the ability to change the rules unilaterally, as well as censor content to appease authoritarian governments or corporate partners. LBRY is a decentralized, open-source protocol that is controlled by its users. LBRY facilitates a similar experience to the aforementioned services but does it in a way that is entirely decentralized. LBRY can never unilaterally change the rules on publishers or consumers, making it dramatically more trustworthy.LBRY is also different from similar blockchain projects as MaidSafe or Storj. These projects are attempting to be decentralized platforms that enable many uses, rather than a decentralized protocol designed to serve a singular purpose. LBRY is designed to do one thing and only one thing well: the discovery, access, and purchase of digital content. By being designed from the ground up for a highly specific purpose, LBRY can both deliver better performance and move faster than attempts to create a similar system on top of other decentralized platforms. All three ventures are in an early stage, so it is an open question that will achieve mainstream adoption.The project doesn’t have a whitepaper. Check out its blog. Follow LBRY on Twitter with about 40K subscribers.Flixxo: A Social Economy Based On Video SharingThe idea of creating a decentralized video distribution platform originates from Adrián Garelik, the founder of RSK Labs. He had decided to create something on top of Bitcoin for financing and distributing films, his concept was “content is a value, and content licenses are the rules tied to that value”. Adrian teamed up with Federico Abad, the creator of Popcorn Time, and with a really smart crypto expert, Pablo Carbajo. After that, they brought Javier D´Ovidio to the team and started to develop Flixxo, a decentralized and incentivized network for distributing and monetizing the video.Read the full story here.According to the Flixxo whitepaper, the project combines BitTorrent and smart contracts to create the first legal, decentralized content distribution network.Flixxo creates a P2P network where authors can distribute and monetize their own content. They incentivize the distribution of their media and remove unnecessary intermediate parties by sharing their revenues with the “seeders” — a term coined in the torrent environment that refers to those who have downloaded content, kept it on their computer and share it again with the rest of the users. Flixxo allows true end users to pay a fair price for watching licensed content in a friendly and safe environment.Flixxo is an open network, a friendly and intuitive platform, a BitTorrent client, a token and a wallet. As the network grows, so does its bandwidth and its storage space, making it more efficient and able to handle more users. The more content is being shared, the better bandwidth it will have for being distributed and streamed. The content spreads across the network, and a final user gets it from many seeders at the time. However, the payment channel is decentralized and the consumer is able to pay directly to the producer, without any intermediary party being involved. The content producer chooses whether he/she wants to share part of its earnings with the network or not, and in which conditions he/she would do that.Technology And How It WorksBy implementing Flixx (the token that carries value within the Flixxo platform) on top of a social video distribution platform they will engage users in helping improve the network by lending their storage and their bandwidth in exchange for tokens.The users will spend Flixx for consuming the content they really want to watch, and earn Flixx back for participating, for being social. Whether it was a smartphone, a tablet or a desktop computer, even a smart tv, a video distribution community could smartly use a decentralized, incentivized peer-to-peer network, having no structural costs and unlimited scaling possibilities.Users can earn more Flixx if they choose to watch an advertisement.This disrupting revenue flow model creates a new ecosystem in which users decide how to monetize their attention and personal information, and then transfer these earnings to the authors of the content they really enjoy. Within this model users reach the content they want to watch, authors monetize and deliver better quality content and advertisers find a way of effectively showcasing their content to their audiences.Flixxo platform started working on a private beta on June 25th, 2018, an open beta was road mapped for November 2018 and the public release took place in March 2019.Verasity: Attention-Based Platform For Video RewardsAccording to its whitepaper, Verasity aims to be a leading video platform providing unique Rewarded Player Technology to major publishers across the globe.Its patent-pending Video Rewards Player enables VRA rewards, monetization and loyalty schemes within the player wallet. Verasity’s player technology is already available to 2 million publishers with 110 billion monthly views. This brings engagement, audiences, and revenues back to publisher sites. The attention-based model creates a thriving VRA token economy between viewers, publishers, and advertisers.Every stakeholder benefits from using Verasity’s infrastructure and tools. The best part is, all that is required is that they set up an account and implement a simple line of code to turn on the Patent Pending Technology — VeraWallet. And to add to your excitement they don’t ever need to change their current video platform or workflow.Verasity has been constantly doing outreach and building partnerships since the inception of the project and now was the perfect time to accelerate the endeavors. Hence, Verasity recently partnered with BlockGroup, a consulting group for building blockchain brands and businesses, which utilizes marketing, public relations, and community development to help emerging companies build their presence in the crypto space. BlockGroup specializes in helping brands tell their stories and reach the widest audience they can globally. BlockGroup has worked with industry giants including Binance, Ethereum, Zilliqa, GSR, Kyber Network, REN, Cred, Gifto, SF Blockchain Week, and many more.Another very smart move Verasity recently did was partnering with the Internet Advertising Bureau UK (IABUK) to Drive the Emerging ‘Value Exchange Economy’. This makes Verasity the first Blockchain company to have Collaboration with the global organization of interactive advertising. As part of this partnership with the IABUK, Verasity will join the IABUK’s global network, and gain access to its powerful media and advertising contacts.The current publisher-advertiser-viewer conundrum pits the viewer against advertisers, publishers, and browsers. We all know the issue: trade your privacy for the use of video platforms and watch ads. Verasity took a complicated problem and turned it on its head. Instead of creating a whole new disruptive infrastructure that moved everyone around, it is using the same old infrastructure but disrupting it from the inside. Verasity wrote code which is modules that integrate into all the main online video platforms: YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, JWPlayer, Brightcove, Kaltura, VideoJS, Flowplayer, and Ooyala which represent over 95% of all the video players utilized.Another problem is scalability. By building on all the current online video platforms with SDK module integrations and differentiated loyalty and reward programs, Verasity will scale without any hurdles. And the quality is what you would expect from the best content delivery networks. This killer app is already available to more than 1.6 million video publishers with their own sites with 550 million users and more than 110 billion monthly views.Verasity the only platform combining the following: Decentralized Proprietary Blockchain, Proof of View (PoV) — patent-pending, Watch and Earn, Centralized Video Distribution, Staking, and multiple ways for creators and users to earn VERA tokens.According to the latest Verasity biweekly update, Q3 has been mainly focused on further improving VeraWallet’s infrastructure to support VRAB. The team has also made significant partnerships with reputable companies in the industry this quarter, including PPA, IAB, and Coinsuper. Verasity has a partnership with Binance Chain, a blockchain software system developed by Binance in a move that will bring about a new incentivized video economy. At the end of September Verasity has joined Binance Chain Alliance.Throughout the past 5 months, they’ve seen a growth in the amount of rewarded videos watched, VRA rewarded and VeraWallet registrations. They’ve also reached a staggering 12,388 DEX wallets with VRAB! The full metrics are shown below:SourceThe team continues working towards completing everything they set out in the roadmap. To see the full roadmap visit the Verasity website.DTube: Crypto-Decentralized Video Platform, Built On Top Of The STEEM Blockchain And The IPFS Peer To-Peer NetworkDTube is a decentralized streaming video platform linked to Steemit (the decentralized social media) which allows users to upload videos easily and make money (or cryptocurrency) via the upvotes or likes on their post.DTube main features:Crypto Incentive. DTube aims to become an alternative to YouTube that allows you to watch or upload videos on IPFS and share or comment about it on the immutable STEEM blockchain while earning cryptocurrency doing it.Resistant To Censorship. Because of the decentralized nature of IPFS and the STEEM blockchain, DTube is not able to censor videos, nor enforce guidelines. Only the users can censor it, through the power of their upvotes and downvotes.A Fair Platform. On DTube, there are no hidden algorithms controlling the visibility or monetization of certain videos over others. All of DTube’s data is public and can be analyzed by anyone with an internet connection.Ads Free. To deliver the best user experience DTube runs without advertising. Users remain free to advertise any product or service they would like, directly inside their own videos, at their own risk of losing their subscribers.DTube experienced instant success and soaring traction: 4 million Monthly Unique Visitors only 4 months after launch in 2018.According to the DTube whitepaper, the project has established as the DApp for video with more than:189,000 accounts created and 284,000 videos published400,000 unique visitors every day on average in 18 monthsWorld’s #2 social media DApp (after Steemit)More than $1.08 Million distributed to DTubers (in Steem tokens)Very efficient community moderationOver the last two years, 100% of the traffic came from organic sources with $0 paid traffic and drove users from all around the world.DTube market validationAfter so many months of research, development, and testing, DTube 0.9 is upgrading the concept of decentralized social media.New Features Include:Post from URL: you can now post videos and live streams from a URLFor curators: share a video from any platform on the webFor creators: double your earnings with tokens and advertisingNew blockchain: Get a DTube account and try our brand new decentralized economy on them public testnetVote on tags: tags now accounts in the tokenized monetizationPromote: burn your DTC to rank up your postsCreate your own DTube: in partnership with Steem EngineSearch engine: Search, related videos and tags navigation is fully functional againThe team designed Avalon social blockchain, a new socio-economic model for social media based on their manifest. The team built this new model on 2 principles:Re-create trust with users by leveraging the power of maturing decentralized technologiesReward users for their contributions in a fair way with cryptocurrency tokensAvalon blockchain is open-source and could be used by other projects with similar social concepts as DTube but with different types of media. It uses a Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus algorithm similar to other popular blockchains such as BitShares, Steem, Ark or EOS.The base of this mechanism is an algorithm that creates and distributes cryptocurrency tokens to reward each participant for their contributions (posts, votes, and tags). Each of these tokens bears a utilitarian value by generating voting power (VP) and bandwidth to its holder with time; The more tokens held, the faster the resource generates.This mechanism protects Avalon from Sybil attacks (e.g.: creating multi-accounts to cheat the numbers of votes), which classic social media are victims of.1 — Bandwidth is used to write transactions on the blockchain. Each byte from the transaction is deducted from the bandwidth balance and a user is unable to transact if he doesn’t have enough bytes available.2 — Voting power is used to influence 2 things:Content exposure — Content is ranked by total voting power spent by usersRewards — Voting power impacts the number of tokens generated by the voteIn this model, influence is materialized in a token and distributed to users for their most relevant votes. The more users follow one’s vote, the more tokens one earns.DTube Coin (DTC) is a fully liquid and freely tradable crypto asset. It represents the value users can trade with each other.Voting Power (VP) is the voting token used to play the curation game. The curation game means users will spend their VP (i.e. influence) to post, vote and tag content in order to earn
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