We’re super excited to have Streamr onboard

Ever wondered how much your data is worth? Well, now thanks to Streamr, a Zippie partner, you’ll soon be able to find out. Streamr is looking to democratise data and take away power from big corporations, while giving you the chance to earn. There’s plenty more reasons to be excited about seeing Streamr on the Zippie OS, so let’s take a closer look.

1. So, what exactly does Streamr do?

Streamr is a new breed of data broker. Anyone can sign up for the service to sell or buy data, using the company’s Ethereum based currency, $DATA, a standard ERC20 token. In the past, this kind of activity was exclusive to companies that follow you around the modern web, the apps you use and shopping centers with Bluetooth beacons. However, Streamr plans to change all that, which neatly fits in with our vision of a decentralized future where data collection is sane, consensual, and possibly a stream of revenue for anyone.

Streamr’s tech is cool too. The company’s crowdfunded to build a custom, low-latency p2p streaming protocol to distribute data at near-real-time speeds. If you’re wondering about the ambition here, make note that the company is founded by people experienced in high-frequency trading, a field that requires technical excellency.

2. What’s Streamr’s ultimate goal and how do they aim to accomplish it?

To quote Streamr CEO Henri Pihkala: we make your Streams come true. It may sound like a dad joke, but let us assure you it’s not. Streamr shares our enthusiasm for making sure we’re walking into a data-driven future on democratized terms.

Almost every institution should be making decisions based on real-world facts. And soon, as the world gets more and more automated, the supply and demand for real-time sensors is set to skyrocket. Streamr will be there, ready to make businesses, cars, scientists, software developers and many more monetize and utilize data that’s being created as a side effect of a digitalized world.

3. Why are they a perfect partner?

Zippie is all about empowering regular people by providing them with easy access to blockchain technologies. The blockchain and related decentralized technologies are all about decentralizing the kinds of operations which are currently run by the biggest companies in the world, creating dangerous centralization of power. Data is one very ubiquitous example of this. Just look at Facebook, Amazon and Google. By doing data differently, Streamr takes something seemingly everyone has — data — and turns it into a packaged commodity others can buy. Buy working together we can help give power back to the people

4. What do they say about Zippie?

Just after the Slush Conference in late 2017, Streamr CEO Henri Pihkala had this to say about why our partnership makes sense:

“A blockchain smartphone with Streamr built in will allow people to start sharing the value of their data.”

And when our partnership was announced:

“Needless to say, we are as enthusiastic about this collaboration as Zippie. Not only do we have the same goal of making it easy for people to access, distribute and monetise their real-time data, but we’re excited to partner with a company aiming to ship working products already in 2018.”

5. What are we doing together right now?

Just like us, Streamr are busy building their product. They recently made a splash with their pavilion at Consensus 2018 and the launch of their data marketplace. Now, they’re working hard at solidifying partnerships with companies, both big and small, in order to facilitate data sharing or trading. In that respect, we’re in the same boat. Our platform benefits from Streamr’s data marketplace and the marketplace benefits from our effort to make it fit into your pocket. We’re confident, that working together is win win for everyone.

If you have any questions about our partnership, be sure to head on over to our Telegram channel, where our CTO and developers are, as ever, happy to help. You can also follow our progress and join our community on Twitter, Reddit and YouTube.