DLive, BitTorrent Join Forces, Unite Clients and Services

  • With the merge of users, DLive will become one of the biggest live streaming platforms in the world.
  • The Lino blockchain will still be supported until the migration to TRON is fully completed.

The blockchain-based live streaming platform, DLive announced that they are joining the BitTorrent family and will soon start to migrate to the TRON blockchain.  

BitTorrent and the Lino Network-powered DLive will collaborate with the aim to popularize live streaming and blockchain-based peer-to-peer content sharing as a whole, to all parts of the world. BitTorrent will advertise DLive’s services and products and use its storage solution.

What does this partnership mean?

DLive and BitTorrent blockchain developers are already working together on improving their offered services. The live streaming platform that BitTorrent launched in 2019 – BLive will now merge into DLive, and the responsible teams will be united. In addition, DLive will now use the BitTorrent File-Sharing System (BTFS) which will further shift all DLive content towards decentralization.

Another integration procedure will be initiated between their account systems, allowing BitTorrent’s 100 million monthly active users to easily access DLive’s services. This step will make DLive one of the biggest live streaming platforms worldwide.

Over the last 15 months DLive has grown enormously through a strong community in a niche market. Before the merge they had more than five million active users.

As stated in the announcement, some of the biggest achievements of DLive until now were the migration to the Lino blockchain testnet that happened in September 2018, the reached milestone of 100,000 daily active users thanks to their first Happy Hour event in December 2018 and PewDiePie’s exclusive live streams that started in April 2019.

During the summer of 2019 PewDiePie co-streamed with James Charles, Ninja and Jack Black, which streaming events were the biggest of 2019. Another achievement was the introduction of “Lemon” – the platform currency on the Lino blockchain in October 2019.

Justin Sun, CEO of BitTorrent, shared his views on DLive:

“DLive is one of the best real-world examples of what is possible when you combine blockchain and digital media,” and added that the platform is a “great solution for live media producers”. “Think of how valuable live streaming content is already to centralized social media platforms who take ownership and advantage of their users’ hard work. We look forward to DLive bringing value to the entire world with the addition of TRON and BitTorrent’s global community of passionate creators.”

CEO of DLive, Charles Wayn was also excited about the partnership:

“We are ecstatic to have the opportunity to be part of the BitTorrent ecosystem. I’ve watched them pioneer the digital peer-to-peer space. DLive’s goal of empowering creators and rewarding communities is one step closer with the amplification of this new venture.”

DLive will still support the Lino blockchain until the migration to TRON is accomplished, meaning that Lino’s infrastructure will be fused into BitTorrent. Nonetheless, the LINO coin will not be the unit of value in the new ecosystem – instead it will be BTT. In order to help users in this transition, DLive will offer rewards and benefits to their existing clients.

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