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Notes
  • The blockchain handles economic incentives and coordination, while go-livepeer network 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-livepeer nodes 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:
LayerRole

System Diagram

Actor & Incentive Model

Trust & Verification Model

Job Lifecycle

Governance & Treasury

Protocol References

Aggregate from from internal Livepeer Notions, Prev site & deepwiki
Last modified on February 18, 2026