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On January 15th, 2020, the SIVER.tv team announced that SLIVER.tv officially renamed THETA.tv!

Their business has grown and evolved over the years since the team first started in 360° Virtual Reality Esports in 2016, maturing into a giveaway platform for Twitch streamers to grow their brand, finally resulting in the March 15th, 2019 launch of the blockchain-powered live streaming website — SLIVER.tv, powered by the Theta Network.

Almost one year later, this name change allows the team to better match their goals and closely align their brand alongside the flagship product — the Theta Network — their decentralized peer-to-peer CDN delivery infrastructure based on the blockchain. THETA.tv is the first of many video platforms to implement the Theta Network infrastructure, dramatically increasing user engagement and slashing video CDN costs by over 50%. With the THETA.tv team working in-house alongside the Theta Network engineers, they’re afforded the opportunity to improve their technology and gauge the results in real-time.

The Theta Network team celebrates THETA.tv launch

THETA.tv will now exclusively feature 100% blockchain-based direct livestreams and no longer embed other websites. Furthermore, the community will now collectively decide the top creators on the platform with the brand-new Partner Royale — a season-based streamer XP leaderboard that awards the top 10% of streamers with the coveted Theta Partner title. For those looking to stream on THETA.tv, they will have to get their hands on a stream key and from there work their way up to Affiliate, Partner, and finally Partner Prestige. More info on streaming to THETA.tv can be found here.

The logo remains the same as SLIVER.tv with slightly updated, brighter colors. You may find the new updated brand guidelines and logo download here. The launch of THETA.tv is just the beginning of what will no doubt be a monumental 2020!

Last week, the Theta team announced that the next enterprise validator node: gumi Cryptos Inc.

gumi Cryptos Inc. is the representative member of gumi Cryptos Capital, which is the blockchain/crypto venture fund launched by gumi Inc., a publicly-traded leading global mobile game publisher and developer. gumi Cryptos Capital offers its portfolio companies a strategic venture capital investment partner with unique access to the Japan cryptocurrency market through its network of investors and management board. Since launching in 2018, gumi Cryptos Capital has invested in many top crypto projects including Origin, Evercoin, Spacemesh, Opensea and Vega Protocol.

Adding gumi Cryptos Inc. as a validator node is a critical step towards decentralization for the Theta protocol, both to make governance of the protocol less dependent on Theta Labs, but also on a technical and practical level. The validator nodes are directly responsible for producing the new blocks that Theta blockchain is built on, and if more than a third of them are corrupted or otherwise out of consensus, the blockchain cannot function properly. When Google Cloud suffered a massive outage on the U.S. East Coast back in July, one of the Theta validator nodes temporarily went down as well. While the Theta blockchain still operated normally and maintained 100% uptime, it highlights how important it is to have many redundant validator nodes. Diversifying block production across geographies, network architectures, and cloud providers is necessary to prevent these threats, and the addition of gumi Cryptos Inc. as a validator is a strong step forward to that goal.

Welcome gumi Cryptos Inc. as an enterprise validator node on Theta Network!