Decentralized Commerce: The DC Network, Stream, and Livepeer

We're pleased to have an event about the decentralized sales and distribution of digital media. Doug Petkanics (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougpetkanics/) will talk to us about LivePeer (https://livepeer.org/), Ben Yu will briefly review Stream (http://streamtoken.net/), and Henry He (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hhe09/) will talk about a protocol for decentralized commerce. We will also have a short intro to the Genaro Network (https://genaro.network/en/) from Larry Liu at the start of the event.

Henry will present a decentralized commerce network designed to power venue-based mobile commerce using a token economy. He will highlight the usage of the utility token, the local economy created by the network, and the demand and value creation for the utility token.

Ben's abstract: Stream is building a platform to enable a new generation of decentralized streaming applications in which content creators get 100% of all the money they make. Stream introduces a way for video content creators to earn money from their work without cost to users and without having resort to advertising or other forms of product promotion.

Doug's abstract: Built on top of Ethereum, Swarm, and an open media server called LPMS, the Livepeer project incentivizes live video transcoding and distribution in a fully decentralized way. This talk will cover the incentives for running nodes, and the solution for scalable verification of transcoding work designed to be built on top of Truebit.