📄️ Background
Streamr’s mission is to replace centralized message brokers with a global, decentralized peer-to-peer network for real-time data. By relying on cryptography instead of trust, the open-source network enables data sharing and monetization in IoT and smart cities, business consortia, individual crowd selling through Data Unions and the Web 3.0.
📄️ Governance
The Streamr project and network are governed by the DATA token holders. Token holders have a clear and direct impact on the direction of the project since decentralized governance allows anyone with a stake in the project to contribute to steering it, enabling the wisdom of the crowd to kick in and push the project towards the best long-term outcomes. Since February 2021, holders of DATA, the utility token that powers the Streamr ecosystem, have been able to vote on Streamr protocol governance decisions.