August 4th, 2026
Network Engineering SPE — Update #3 (July): RFP #1 closed with a public retrospective, and five retroactive grants were decided across five builders. Direct Grant #1 Milestones 1 and 2 were also signed off.
Delegator UX Analysis RFP — Completed and closed: all four milestones were delivered, followed by Update #4, “Finished,” and a closing retrospective.
Protocol R&D SPE — Update #6: the highest-volume vulnerability-response month yet, with LIP-118 reward-call delegation deployed on-chain on July 30.
LIP-118 — Delegated Reward Calling discussion thread opened by rickstaa.
Livepeer 2.0 — “A Path to Livepeer 2.0” vision by dob, “The Initial Roadmap” by honestly_rich, and the Delegators 2.0, Node Operator 2.0, and Validators 2.0 discussion threads.
RFC: Agent Framework — The Five Milestones by Qiang Han; the comment window is open through August 10.
New retroactive grant applications:
Flux Klein over Trickle
vLLM real-time transcription
Livepeer Testnet Proposal posted by Sidestream.
Payment Clearhousing Direct Grant Update