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Actors are the main participants in the protocol who make up the core functions of the network.
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Gateways

Orchestrators

Delegators

Builders & Users

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Why This Architecture Matters

  • Decentralized competition — Gateways and orchestrators can specialize
  • Better developer UX — Apps talk only to Gateways
  • Better performance — Routing optimizes for GPU availability & latency
  • Alignment — Orchestrators focus on compute; Gateways focus on services

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Marketplace Architecture

The Livepeer Marketplace is an emerging ecosystem layer where Gateways and Orchestrators publicly advertise, price, and compete on real-time AI video services. This marketplace transforms Livepeer from a raw GPU network into a discoverable, composable, and economically aligned infrastructure layer.

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Why a Marketplace?

As Livepeer shifts toward real-time AI video (Daydream, ComfyStream, BYOC pipelines), the network needs:
  • Service discovery
  • Capability matching
  • Transparent pricing
  • Quality and performance competition
  • A way for builders to choose providers intentionally
Gateways and Orchestrators participate jointly to make this possible.

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Marketplace Participants

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Gateway Operators

Gateways publish:
  • Supported models (e.g., diffusion, ControlNet, IPAdapter)
  • Supported pipelines (ComfyStream workflows, BYOC containers)
  • Pricing (per frame, per second, per inference)
  • Geographic/latency characteristics
  • Performance metrics
Gateways serve as the “service storefront.”

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Orchestrator Operators

Orchestrators contribute:
  • GPU capacity (A40, 4090, L40S, etc.)
  • Model acceleration (TensorRT, Torch Compile)
  • Latency and throughput guarantees
  • Historical reliability/performance scores
Orchestrators are the “supply side” of compute.

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Marketplace Workflow