Run the Livepeer network

Everything you need to operate a Livepeer orchestrator or delegate your LPT — and nothing you don’t.

Livepeer is a decentralized marketplace for AI video compute. Applications send jobs; GPU operators do the work and get paid. This site covers the two roles on the supply side of that marketplace:

Orchestrators

Connect GPUs to the network. Process video transcoding and AI inference jobs, and earn ETH fees plus LPT rewards.

Delegators

Hold LPT? Bond it to an orchestrator to help secure the network and share in its rewards — no hardware required.

Start here

Run your first orchestrator

A guided, end-to-end walkthrough: from a bare GPU machine to a node that earns on mainnet.

Delegate your first LPT

A guided walkthrough: from LPT in your wallet to a confirmed, reward-earning delegation.

Looking to build on Livepeer instead? These docs cover running the network. A developer platform — and a Build section of these docs — is on the way. In the meantime, ask in the Livepeer Discord; the team and community can point you at what’s possible today.

How these docs are organized

The sidebar follows the Diátaxis framework. Each section answers a different kind of question, so go to the one that matches what you need right now:

If you want to…	Go to	Example
Learn by doing, step by step	Tutorials	Run your first orchestrator
Accomplish a specific task	How-to guides	Set competitive pricing
Understand how it works	Explanation	How the network works
Look up an exact value	Reference	CLI flags, protocol parameters

Network values such as inflation, the unbonding period, the active-set size, and contract addresses are governance-controlled and change over time. Treat the numbers here as a starting point and verify the live values on the Livepeer Explorer and on-chain. See Protocol parameters.