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Actors are fundamental to describing how the network functions end-to-end from a systems engineering perspective.

Livepeer’s ecosystem involves both protocol actors (on-chain roles) and community actors (network participants and builders)

<Note>INSERT LIVEPEER ACTOR DIAGRAM HERE \[THIS ONE LOOKS OLD (whitpaper)</Note>

<Note>Actor diagram placeholder removed pending final approved asset.</Note>
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- A **protocol layer** of smart contracts that enforce the rules of the network.
- An **economics layer** of tokenomics and game theory that aligns incentives.

See more on the architectural layers in <LinkArrow href="/about/mental-model" label="Mental Model: OSI Framework for Livepeer" newline={false} />
See more on the architectural layers in <LinkArrow href="/v2/about/mental-model" label="Mental Model: OSI Framework for Livepeer" newline={false} />

## Livepeer Protocol

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- probabilistic payments
- verification rules

This makes up the economic and coordination layer that incenticises and enforces desired behaviour.
This makes up the economic and coordination layer that incentivises and enforces desired behaviour.

## Livepeer Network

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**Roles**: Perform Compute Operations, participate in governance
</Card>
<Card title="Gateways" icon="torii-gate" cta="Go to Gateways" href="/gateways/gateways-portal">
<Card title="Gateways" icon="torii-gate" cta="Go to Gateways" href="/v2/gateways/gateways-portal">
Clients submitting jobs (video or AI) into the network. The users and builders of the network.

**Roles**: Submit jobs, route work, manage payment flows, connect to orchestrators
{/* **Types**: Video Gateway, AI Gateway, Hybrid Gateway */}
</Card>
<Card title="Delegators" icon="coins" cta="Go to Delegators" href="/lpt/token-portal">
<Card title="Delegators" icon="coins" cta="Go to Delegators" href="/v2/lpt/token-portal">
LPT holders who stake to an orchestrator.

**Roles**: Stake LPT, earn rewards, participate in governance and voting
</Card>
<Card title="Platforms? Workers?" icon="laptop-code" cta="Go to Platforms" href="/developers/portal">
<Card title="Platforms? Workers?" icon="laptop-code" cta="Go to Platforms" href="/v2/developers/portal">
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The card title "Platforms? Workers?" reads like an unresolved placeholder and will be user-visible in the About overview. Please replace it with a definitive label (and, if needed, adjust the description/CTA to match).

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<Card title="Platforms? Workers?" icon="laptop-code" cta="Go to Platforms" href="/v2/developers/portal">
<Card title="Platforms" icon="laptop-code" cta="Go to Platforms" href="/v2/developers/portal">

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Services built on top of the Livepeer Network (not directly part of the network).

**Roles**: Build on top of the network, provide developer-friendly and end-user services
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### Rewards Distribution
#TODO

- Orchestrators: pro-rata by bonded stake
- Delegators: share of orchestrator rewards, split by rewardCut
- Treasury: fixed % (currently 10%) of M(t) per round
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</ScrollableDiagram>

<Danger> Move majority of this to token section. This section will just give a product/design decision overview </Danger>

### Governance
#TODO

Only bonded LPT grants voting rights on Livepeer protocol proposals (LIPs).

**Governance Tools:**
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Voting power is proportional to bonded stake at snapshot block. Voters can delegate voting power to others via bonded LPT.

### Treasury
#TODO

A portion of LPT emissions flows to a community treasury. The treasury is meant to fund ecosystem-wide projects (public goods). Livepeer’s social consensus is that treasury funds should primarily go to SPEs, which then deploy them to specific initiatives.

---

#MOVE THESE


## Technical Mechanics
#TODO

### Bonding & Unbonding
LPT must be actively bonded to participate in inflation and governance.

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#REVIEW


## Economic Flow Diagrams
Show:
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import { Subtitle } from '/snippets/components/primitives/text.jsx'
import { AccordionLayout } from '/snippets/components/layout/text.jsx'

<Note> image would be good </Note>

# Livepeer Mental Model
Livepeer is a crypto‑economic coordination protocol that secures a global, on-demand GPU network optimized for real‑time video and AI, and exposed through developer‑friendly platforms and applications.
{/* Livepeer is a decentralised real-time compute infrastructure, exposed through a set of developer-friendly products and applications, much like how you build on traditional cloud providers, but with a cryptoeconomic control plane. */}
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<Card
title="Core Concepts"
icon="building-columns"
href="./livepeer-network/overview"
href="./core-concepts"
arrow
>
A high-level introduction to the key concepts workings of the Livepeer open, on-demand AI & Media infrastructure substrate and the distributed crypto-primitive coordination system.
</Card>
<Card
title="Mental Model"
icon="brain"
href="./livepeer-network/overview"
href="./mental-model"
arrow
>
A canonical model with an OSI stack comparison to help you understand how Livepeer operates in terms of infrastructure layers.
</Card>
<Card
title="Livepeer Protocol"
icon="cube"
href="./livepeer-network/overview"
href="./livepeer-protocol/overview"
arrow
>
A deep dive into the on-chain governance and incentive layer that secures and coordinates Livepeer.
{/* The Livepeer Protocol is the underlying code that enforces the mechanisms and rules to ensure the reliability, cooperation and coordination of these decentralised actors. */}
{/* A deep dive into the on-chain governance and incentive layer that secures and coordinates orchestrators, staking rewards, inflation, slashing, and probabilistic payments. */}
</Card>
<Card
title="Livepeer Network"
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<Card
title="Livepeer Glossary"
icon="book"
href="./livepeer-network/overview"
href="./resources/livepeer-glossary"
arrow
>
A comprehensive glossary of terms used in the Livepeer Real-time Video AI Network.
</Card>
<Card
title="Livepeer Whitepaper"
icon="newspaper"
href="./livepeer-network/overview"
href="./resources/livepeer-whitepaper"
arrow
>
The original Livepeer Whitepaper (2017) that outlines the vision and design of the Livepeer protocol.
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og:image: "/snippets/assets/domain/SHARED/LivepeerDocsLogo.svg"
---




<Note> A Searchable view would be ideal here </Note>

Terms (Actors & Network)

- Gateway
- Orchestrator
- Delegator
- Developer
-

Terms (web3)

- DePIN
- LPT
- ETH
-

Terms (video)

- Transcoding
- Ingest
- Delivery
- Streaming
-

Terms (AI)

- Inference
- Model
- Pipeline
- World Model
- Agent

Terms (Other)

-

## ====

title: 'Livepeer Glossary'
sidebarTitle: 'Livepeer Glossary'
description: 'A comprehensive glossary of terms used in the Livepeer Real-Time AI & Video Network'

---

<Note>A searchable view would be ideal here.</Note>
<Danger>Terms not verified, brainstorm list only</Danger>

# Livepeer Core Terms

### Livepeer Protocol
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