Livepeer

Livepeer is dedicated to solving the significant challenges developers and creators face with traditional video streaming infrastructure. The current landscape is dominated by centralized providers, leading to high costs, scalability issues, and a lack of control for those building video-enabled applications. Customers often struggle with the expensive and complex process of video transcoding—the reformatting of raw video to ensure an optimal viewing experience on any device, at any network speed. These high operational costs can stifle innovation and limit the potential for new types of video-driven apps and business models. Livepeer addresses these problems directly by providing the world's open video infrastructure, a decentralized network built on the Ethereum blockchain.

Our platform offers a fundamentally different approach. By harnessing a global network of node operators who contribute their excess computing power (CPU, GPU, and bandwidth), Livepeer creates a distributed marketplace for video transcoding. This decentralized architecture allows us to offer services at a fraction of the cost of traditional providers, with some estimates showing savings of up to 50 times. For our customers—developers building everything from user-generated content platforms to pay-as-you-go streaming services and uncensorable live journalism—this means they can build, scale, and innovate without the prohibitive financial burden. We provide the robust, API-first, and open-source tools they need to integrate live and on-demand video seamlessly, ensuring high-quality, reliable streaming that gets more resilient as the network grows. Our focus is not on being a viewer-facing platform, but on empowering the builders who are creating the next generation of video experiences with a more equitable, efficient, and open foundation.