This repo is now deprecated. Please visit the Livepeer Grants homepage to apply for a grant.
Livepeer has a long term vision to build an open source and fully decentralized video stack, and we cannot achieve this goal without a community of contributors to the project. Livepeer Grants provide funding to projects that benefit the Livepeer ecosystem.
Grants are paid in Livepeer token (LPT), providing contributors with an opportunity to both fund their projects AND build a position in the Livepeer’s Proof of Stake network. To receive a grant you will need a wallet that can receive funds on Arbitrum. We encourage grant holders to become delegators in the Livepeer network by staking their token with a Livepeer node operator to receive inflationary Livepeer rewards.
If you're appreciative of this initiative and all that it will do for the ecosystem, stake with our orchestrator node, and contribute a portion of your inflationary reward to go towards these grants! Node address: 0x4f4758f7167b18e1f5b3c1a7575e3eb584894dbc.
Current grants program tracker.
After LPT is withdrawn from the staking pool in the community node, it is administered by the community grants committee via the multisig address arb:0x64e0aA4631ae8f74627e68Cf02565Bec30d2EA4F.
Requirements for ALL GRANTS:
There are 3 types of grants to support supply and demand for Livepeer’s open video infrastructure. Please choose the one most appropriate for you.
Microgrants are geared towards tightly scoped projects with a clear deliverable that can be completed in 1 month or less. Examples of such projects may be:
The Video Disruptor grant is intended for dedicated teams looking to conduct cutting-edge video research and/or explore novel, user-centered web3 applications that leverage Livepeer’s decentralized video compute network. We are interested in teams looking to apply tools like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AR/VR, etc to video in a web3 context. We also are interested in teams utilizing other web3 protocols and concepts like FVMs, zK-proofs, etc to create entirely new video experiences and tooling.
We will also consider projects that either disrupt or offer entirely new video experiences vs incumbent, web2 applications. However, teams must demonstrate the ability to engage the community (ideally the team or project already has a large existing community) in a meaningful way to foster fast adoption, growth, and feedback.
Projects must be completed within 3 months or less with clearly defined monthly milestones.
Apply for a Video Disruptor Grant here
Open grants will be awarded to individuals and teams building tooling and applications to support supply-side node operations, delegation and overall health of the Livepeer Network. Examples of past open network grants include bots for better governance, educational content on how to get started as an Orchestrator or Delegator, tools to better parse/debug logs, etc.
Apply for an Open Livepeer Network Grant here
Note: This repo is migrated from the previous repo to kick start the new grants process
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