August 4th, 2026

LIP-118 — Delegated Reward Calling discussion thread opened by rickstaa.
New retroactive grant applications:
June 30th, 2026

Direct Grant #1 — Livepeer Payment Clearinghouse (John Mull / Elite Code Solutions) awarded $15k
Protocol R&D SPE — Continuation ($300K, 6-month renewal) went on-chain Jun 5
NEW Retroactive Grant application — Livepeer Workflow Kit (shane)
NEW Treasury RFC — 90-Day Treasury Diversification & Volume-Weighted Governance Framework
dob — Recycled Fees, Network Taxes, and Token Sinks (tokenomics discussion)
— Period from 8th June till 30th June
June 8th, 2026

Protocol R&D SPE — Continuation Proposal (6-month, $300K), going on-chain Jun 5
Documentation Restructure RFP — v2 docs live at docs.livepeer.org (May 4)
Explorer Maintenance RFP — Closing Retrospective posted by RaidGuild (May 4)
NEW: Retroactive Grants category launched under Network Engineering SPE (May 11)
Sidestream acknowledged Protocol R&D monthly update is due, coming in days (May 29)
Security Vulnerability Disclosure — L1→L2 Migrator address-validation bug patched (Jun 2)
Direct Grants — third Network Engineering SPE funding lane launched (Jun 3)
May 4th, 2026

March 9th, 2026
February 9th, 2026
Five teams participated in January’s monthly update:
- Transformation SPE: January release note
- Explorer RFP: RFP — Explorer Maintenance — Update #5
- Cloud SPE: Cloud SPE — Update #1
- Docs RFP: Public View Page for Docs-v2
- Protocol SPE: Updates will start from February
Five teams concluded their work and provided their retrospectives:
- Devconnect RFP: AI x Open Media Forum - Refraction Post-Event Report
- AI SPE: AI SPE Phase 4 Retrospective
- OSS SPE: Retroactive Report: Livepeer Open Source Sponsorship Initiative
- AI Creator Adoption SPE: Livepeer SPE Retrospective Report
- Embody: Embody Team: Retrospective
January 16th, 2026

Make Network Data More Observable status changed from Seeking Applications to In Progress as the work was claimed by Cloud SPE
Establish Dedicated Protocol Security & Development Capacity was claimed by SideStream
Following Improve Livepeer’s Capital Management, restarting treasury reward cut was put to vote through LIP-101
January 15th, 2026
Moved Upgrade Transcoding Capabilities and Improve Gateway Product To Meet Customer Needs from Now to Next after receiving the market mapping report; with limited team capacity, the team is reassessing and will prioritize these items again based on the new insights and availability.