- The blockchain handles economic incentives and coordination, while
go-livepeernetwork nodes handle the computationally intensive work of media processing and AI inference. - The on-chain contracts verify work and handle payments, but don’t perform the actual transcoding/AI inference
go-livepeernodes communicate with the blockchain to submit work proofs and claim rewards- This architecture allows the protocol to scale while maintaining economic security through on-chain verification
Protocol Architecture
System Overview
Livepeer can be modeled as a layered architecture:System Diagram
Actor & Incentive Model
Trust & Verification Model
Job Lifecycle
Governance & Treasury
Protocol References
Aggregate from internal Livepeer Notions, Prev site & deepwiki