What is the Livepeer Roadmap?

What Is the Livepeer Roadmap (The Vision)

The roadmap is not a project plan. It is not a promise. It is a shared and evolving view of where the network is headed, what problems are being worked on, and who is driving them — open enough to invite participation, structured enough to stay strategically coherent.

What does it do? (The Purpose)

A functional ecosystem roadmap must do three things well:

1. Show what's happening — every item defines a problem, a desired outcome, and who owns it. Visitors can see what's been done, what’s being worked on, and what’s coming up without needing to ask anyone.

2. Accept community input through a real process — community members can propose items, upvote priorities, and provide comment. Those signals have visible consequences: proposals are reviewed, decisions are published, and upvoters are notified when their item moves. This is what makes it a two-way system rather than a display board.

3. Report progress automatically — every status change on a roadmap item triggers a notification to everyone who upvoted it. Every major milestone generates a changelog entry. The changelog becomes the progress reporting mechanism for the entire ecosystem.

How does it works? (The Flow)

We ran a process called Advisory Boards to identify projects that needed to be worked on. Now, there is one path onto the Ecosystem Roadmap:

Community or Foundation proposes → Shortlisted items are discussed on Monthly Discord call → Approved items are promoted to roadmap → Status changes auto-notify upvoters → Milestones generate changelog entries

Nothing gets added to the roadmap directly by anyone except admins. The proposal board is the only intake funnel. This keeps the roadmap credible as a leadership-level artifact while ensuring community voice has a real, visible pathway.

The NaaP Roadmap operates separately — it has its own team, its own Epic/Milestone language, and its own cadence. It lives alongside the Ecosystem Roadmap but is not fed by the community intake process.

In time we may add additonal Roadmaps or intake pathways based on the evolving needs of the ecosystem.