Open Media
Coordination Infrastructure
RelayStream is developing a protocol layer for coordinating media assets, metadata, storage routes, discovery records, and wallet-based access across decentralized infrastructure.
RelayStream is not just a streaming site.
RelayStream is being built as a media coordination framework. The goal is to connect storage, metadata, playback, discovery, verification, and access control into one interoperable layer for decentralized media applications.
Media Coordination
Track where media assets live, how they are retrieved, what metadata describes them, and which systems can access them.
Decentralized Discovery
Create searchable media records that are not locked inside one centralized platform, database, marketplace, or storage provider.
Wallet-Based Access
Use blockchain assets, NFTs, wallet signatures, and future protocol permissions to authorize playback and media interaction.
A routing standard for decentralized media.
Open-STRM defines how a media asset can reference storage locations, playback manifests, redundancy paths, metadata files, wallet permissions, and verification records.
Instead of treating media as a single file in one place, RelayStream treats media as a coordinated network of references.
"asset": "relaystream.media.001",
"manifest": "index.m3u8",
"storage": ["storj","sia","filecoin"],
"access": "wallet_verified",
"status": "available"
}
Four layers working together.
1. Metadata Layer
Structured records describing media assets, thumbnails, manifests, storage locations, ownership data, and verification fields.
2. Storage Layer
Media files and HLS segments can be distributed across Storj, Sia, Filecoin, IPFS, and future decentralized storage systems.
3. Access Layer
Wallets, NFTs, signatures, and future STRM permissions determine who can access specific content or routes.
4. Discovery Layer
Applications can find media records, retrieve routing data, and display playable assets without rebuilding the full infrastructure stack.
5. Settlement Layer
Solana and future blockchain integrations can coordinate registration, verification, payments, rewards, and protocol activity.
6. Application Layer
Web apps, marketplaces, players, dashboards, archives, and developer tools can all build on top of the same coordination framework.
Protocol evolution path.
Prototype Media Pipeline
Validate HLS generation, manifest handling, browser playback, NFT-linked metadata, and decentralized storage workflows.
Open-STRM Specification
Document the structure for media routing records, storage references, metadata schemas, and playback authorization logic.
Developer Tooling
Create reference implementations, examples, simple APIs, and dashboard tools for testing decentralized media coordination.
STRM Protocol Expansion
Move toward permission systems, settlement models, tokenized access, marketplace coordination, and broader ecosystem integrations.
The future of media is coordinated, not centralized.
RelayStream is building toward an open infrastructure layer where media can be preserved, discovered, verified, routed, and accessed across decentralized networks.