"Engineers who need live video encoding with guaranteed reliability, on demand, at scale, are invited to join Livepeer as a design partner. We’re providing five companies who join as design partners with free live video encoding for 6 months, up to 100 concurrent streams. If you’re a video engineer who likes being first to use the newest technology, if you’re excited to take part in the design process and share your user feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Beyond the pilot, Livepeer’s network will enable you to transcode live video at a fraction of the cost of existing closed, proprietary providers." [https://medium.com/livepeer-blog/announcing-livepeers-series-a-first-video-product-and-pilot-program-393dde0d1a05](https://medium.com/livepeer-blog/announcing-livepeers-series-a-first-video-product-and-pilot-program-393dde0d1a05) I like the Pilot Partner Program approach for acquiring users. > How this may impact existing token economies. What do you mean by this?

Livepeer announced an $8 million Series A investment round today. As an active validator for a year, I'll be curious to see - 1 - How this may accelerate end-user adoption 2 - How this may impact existing token economics