{
  "terms": [
    {
      "term": "Active Set",
      "definition": "The top 100 orchestrators by total bonded stake eligible to receive video transcoding work in the current round.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "AI Inference",
      "definition": "Running a trained neural network model on new input data to produce predictions or generated outputs.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "AI Runner",
      "definition": "The container process that executes AI model inference jobs; go-livepeer communicates with it via HTTP and it loads models into GPU memory to process requests.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "AIServiceRegistry",
      "definition": "Smart contract registering AI service capabilities for orchestrators on the Livepeer AI network.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "aiModels.json",
      "definition": "JSON configuration file specifying available AI models including pipeline type, model ID, pricing, and warm status for an orchestrator node.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "aiWorker",
      "definition": "CLI flag starting a go-livepeer node as a dedicated AI worker process that connects to an orchestrator and handles AI inference jobs.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Arbitrum",
      "definition": "A Layer 2 Optimistic Rollup settling to Ethereum, processing transactions off-chain while inheriting Ethereum-grade security.",
      "category": "web3",
      "tags": [
        "web3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Audio-to-Text",
      "definition": "AI pipeline converting spoken language audio into written text using deep neural networks.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Batch AI Inference",
      "definition": "Running a trained model on a group of inputs asynchronously, optimising GPU utilisation through parallelisation.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "BLIP",
      "definition": "Vision-language model by Salesforce using bootstrapped captioning and filtering for image understanding tasks including captioning and visual QA.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Bonding",
      "definition": "Staking (locking) LPT tokens to an orchestrator in Livepeer's delegated proof-of-stake system.",
      "category": "web3",
      "tags": [
        "web3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "BondingManager",
      "definition": "Core smart contract managing bonding, delegation, staking logic, and fund ownership on the Livepeer protocol.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "BYOC (Bring Your Own Container)",
      "definition": "Deployment pattern enabling orchestrators to run custom Docker containers for AI workloads alongside standard Livepeer pipelines.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Capability Advertisement",
      "definition": "Mechanism by which orchestrators inform gateways of the AI services, pipelines, and models they can process.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Capability Matching",
      "definition": "Process by which a gateway routes an AI task to an appropriate orchestrator based on advertised capabilities.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Cascade",
      "definition": "Strategic vision for Livepeer to become the leading platform for real-time AI video pipelines, representing the current phase of protocol development.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Clearinghouse",
      "definition": "Contract or system handling settlement of payments between gateways and orchestrators.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "CLI (Command-Line Interface)",
      "definition": "Text-based interface for interacting with software by typing commands; in Livepeer, the primary method for configuring and running go-livepeer nodes.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "CPU (Central Processing Unit)",
      "definition": "The primary general-purpose processor in a computer; in Livepeer, CPU handles node software overhead while GPU handles intensive transcoding and AI inference workloads.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Cold Model / Cold Start",
      "definition": "Latency incurred when an AI model must be loaded from storage into GPU memory before the first request can be processed, typically adding 5 to 90 seconds of delay.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "ComfyStream",
      "definition": "Livepeer project running ComfyUI workflows as a real-time media processing backend for live streams.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "ComfyUI",
      "definition": "Open-source node-based graphical interface for building and executing AI image and video generation workflows.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "ControlNet",
      "definition": "Neural network architecture adding spatial conditioning controls such as edge maps, depth, and pose signals to pretrained diffusion models.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)",
      "definition": "NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming API enabling GPUs to be used for general-purpose processing and deep learning.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Daydream",
      "definition": "Livepeer's hosted real-time AI video platform turning live camera input into AI-transformed visuals with sub-second latency.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Delegator",
      "definition": "LPT token holder who stakes tokens to an orchestrator to secure the network, participate in governance, and earn a share of rewards.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Diffusion",
      "definition": "Class of generative models that learn to produce data by reversing a gradual noising process applied during training.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Dual Mode",
      "definition": "Deployment configuration where a single orchestrator process handles both video transcoding and AI inference simultaneously.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "ETH",
      "definition": "The native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, used to pay transaction fees (gas) and as the settlement currency for orchestrator service fee payments.",
      "category": "web3",
      "tags": [
        "web3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Face Value",
      "definition": "The payout amount assigned to a probabilistic micropayment ticket if it is drawn as a winner.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Fee Cut",
      "definition": "The percentage of ETH service fees that an orchestrator retains before distributing the remainder to delegators.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Fee Pool",
      "definition": "Accumulated ETH fees awaiting distribution between an orchestrator and its delegators.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Gateway",
      "definition": "Node that submits jobs to the network, routes work to orchestrators, manages payment flows, and provides a protocol interface for applications.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "GB (Gigabyte)",
      "definition": "A unit of digital storage equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes (binary); used in Livepeer hardware specifications for RAM, VRAM, and storage requirements.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "GeForce",
      "definition": "NVIDIA's consumer-grade discrete GPU brand, encompassing the GTX and RTX product lines; the most common GPU family used by Livepeer orchestrator operators.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "go-livepeer",
      "definition": "Official Go implementation of the Livepeer protocol containing the Broadcaster, Orchestrator, Transcoder, Gateway, and Worker roles in a single binary.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)",
      "definition": "Specialised processor designed for parallel computation, used in Livepeer for both video transcoding and AI model inference.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "GPU Worker",
      "definition": "Subprocess running AI inference on a dedicated GPU, managed by the go-livepeer orchestrator process.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "GTX (NVIDIA GTX)",
      "definition": "NVIDIA's previous-generation consumer GPU product line; capable of Livepeer video transcoding but lacks the Tensor cores of the RTX series needed for accelerated AI inference.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "gRPC",
      "definition": "High-performance remote procedure call framework using HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers for efficient binary communication between services.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Hard Gate",
      "definition": "Strict filter that immediately disqualifies orchestrators failing a required criterion such as exceeding the gateway's maximum price threshold.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)",
      "definition": "Streaming protocol by Apple that encodes video into multiple quality levels and delivers them via standard HTTP with an M3U8 index playlist.",
      "category": "video",
      "tags": [
        "video"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "HuggingFace",
      "definition": "An AI platform and open-source community providing model repositories, datasets, and inference APIs; a primary source for AI models deployed on Livepeer orchestrator nodes.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Image-to-Image",
      "definition": "AI pipeline transforming an input image into a modified output image, guided by a text prompt or conditioning signal.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Image-to-Text",
      "definition": "AI pipeline generating a textual description from an input image, encompassing captioning and OCR tasks.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Image-to-Video",
      "definition": "AI pipeline generating a short video clip conditioned on a single input image, animating a still frame into motion.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Inflation",
      "definition": "Dynamic issuance of new LPT tokens each protocol round, distributed to orchestrators and delegators based on participation and stake.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "LIP-89",
      "definition": "Livepeer Improvement Proposal introducing the on-chain LivepeerGovernor governance contract and community treasury.",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "LIP-91",
      "definition": "Livepeer Improvement Proposal bundling the treasury establishment mechanism and defining the inflation-funded treasury reward cut rate.",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "LIP-92",
      "definition": "Livepeer Improvement Proposal defining the AI model registry and capability discovery mechanism for the network.",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Live-Video-to-Video",
      "definition": "AI pipeline applying generative models to a continuous video stream frame-by-frame at interactive frame rates.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "LLM (Large Language Model)",
      "definition": "Neural network trained on massive text corpora to understand and generate human language for tasks including text generation, reasoning, and conversation.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Loki",
      "definition": "Horizontally scalable log aggregation system by Grafana Labs, used in Livepeer orchestrator monitoring stacks.",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "LPT (Livepeer Token)",
      "definition": "ERC-20 governance and staking token used to coordinate, incentivise, and secure the Livepeer network; staked LPT determines work allocation and reward share.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Mainnet",
      "definition": "The primary public production blockchain where actual-value transactions occur on the distributed ledger.",
      "category": "web3",
      "tags": [
        "web3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "MaxPrice",
      "definition": "CLI flag setting the maximum transcoding price per pixelsPerUnit that a gateway will accept from an orchestrator; orchestrators above this threshold are excluded.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Micropayment",
      "definition": "Small-value payment represented as a signed probabilistic ticket with a chance of being a winner redeemable for ETH.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Model Warmth",
      "definition": "Status indicating whether an AI model is currently loaded in GPU memory (warm) or must be loaded from storage on demand (cold).",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "NVDEC",
      "definition": "NVIDIA hardware video decoder that offloads video decoding from the CPU to dedicated silicon on NVIDIA GPUs.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "NVENC",
      "definition": "NVIDIA hardware video encoder that offloads H.264 and H.265 encoding from the CPU to dedicated silicon on NVIDIA GPUs.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "O-T Split",
      "definition": "Architectural separation of the Orchestrator and Transcoder (Worker) processes, typically running on different machines, where the orchestrator handles protocol interaction and the transcoder handles GPU compute.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Ollama",
      "definition": "Open-source tool for running large language models locally with a CLI and OpenAI-compatible REST API.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Orchestrator",
      "definition": "Supply-side network node contributing GPU resources, receiving jobs from gateways, performing transcoding or AI inference, and earning rewards.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "OrchestratorInfo",
      "definition": "Data structure advertised by orchestrators containing capabilities, pricing, service URI, and metadata used by gateways for selection decisions.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "orchSecret",
      "definition": "Shared secret used to authenticate communication between an orchestrator process and its standalone transcoder or worker nodes in an O-T split deployment.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Output Profile",
      "definition": "Predefined set of encoding parameters (resolution, bitrate, codec, frame rate) defining a single rendition of a transcoded video.",
      "category": "video",
      "tags": [
        "video"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Overhead",
      "definition": "Additional operational costs beyond direct computation, including gas fees for ticket redemption, bandwidth, and administrative costs.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Per Pixel (Price Per Pixel)",
      "definition": "Livepeer's unit-based pricing mechanism where fees are calculated based on the number of pixels processed during a transcoding or AI inference job.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Per Round",
      "definition": "The Livepeer protocol's fundamental time unit, approximately equal to one day of Ethereum blocks; reward minting, activations, and delegator earnings accrue on a per-round basis.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Performance Score",
      "definition": "Composite metric rating an orchestrator's reliability and speed, calculated as latency score multiplied by success rate, used by gateways in orchestrator selection.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Pixel",
      "definition": "Single point in a video frame used as the fundamental pricing unit for transcoding work on the Livepeer network.",
      "category": "video",
      "tags": [
        "video"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "pixelsPerUnit",
      "definition": "CLI parameter defining the number of pixels constituting one billable work unit, allowing granular pricing control.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "PM (Probabilistic Micropayment)",
      "definition": "Lottery-based payment scheme where gateways send signed tickets to orchestrators and only winning tickets are redeemed on-chain, amortising transaction costs across many payments.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Pool",
      "definition": "Group of transcoder or worker nodes coordinated under a single orchestrator for increased capacity and redundancy.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Pool Operator",
      "definition": "Entity running an orchestrator that coordinates a pool of transcoder or worker nodes, managing on-chain operations and distributing earnings to workers.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Pool Worker",
      "definition": "Individual machine within an orchestrator pool, running go-livepeer in transcoder mode and executing GPU compute jobs delegated by the pool operator's orchestrator.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Price Feed",
      "definition": "External data source providing real-time ETH/USD exchange rates used by orchestrators to denominate prices in USD terms.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "pricePerCapability",
      "definition": "CLI flag setting the price per unit for a specific AI pipeline and model pair, overriding the default pricePerUnit for that capability.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "pricePerGateway",
      "definition": "JSON configuration allowing orchestrators to set customised per-gateway-address pricing, enabling different rates for specific gateway partners.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "pricePerUnit",
      "definition": "CLI flag setting the transcoding price in wei per pixelsPerUnit that an orchestrator advertises to gateways.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "PyTorch (Torch)",
      "definition": "Open-source deep learning framework providing GPU-accelerated tensor computation and automatic differentiation, used to build and run AI models on orchestrator nodes.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Redeemer",
      "definition": "Service or entity submitting a winning probabilistic micropayment ticket to the TicketBroker contract to claim its face value in ETH.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Remote Signer",
      "definition": "External service that holds private keys securely and signs Ethereum transactions on behalf of a node, allowing the node to operate without direct access to the signing key.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Rendition",
      "definition": "Single encoded version of a source video at a specific resolution, bitrate, and codec configuration produced by a transcoding job.",
      "category": "video",
      "tags": [
        "video"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol)",
      "definition": "Protocol for streaming audio, video, and data over TCP on port 1935, used as the primary ingest protocol for live video submitted to Livepeer orchestrators.",
      "category": "video",
      "tags": [
        "video"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "RTX (NVIDIA RTX)",
      "definition": "NVIDIA's current consumer GPU product line featuring dedicated Tensor cores that accelerate AI/ML inference workloads; RTX GPUs are well-suited for Livepeer AI pipeline tasks.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Reward Call",
      "definition": "On-chain transaction (Reward()) that an active orchestrator submits once per round to mint and distribute new LPT inflation rewards.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Reward Cut",
      "definition": "The percentage of inflationary LPT rewards that an orchestrator keeps before distributing the remainder to delegators.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "RoundsManager",
      "definition": "Smart contract tracking round progression and coordinating round-based protocol state including round initialisation and block counting.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Segment",
      "definition": "Short time-sliced chunk of a video stream (typically around 2 seconds) representing the unit of work for video transcoding in the Livepeer protocol.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Segmentation (AI)",
      "definition": "AI task partitioning a digital image into regions by assigning a label to every pixel, identifying and outlining objects or areas.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Service URI",
      "definition": "Public URL registered on-chain that gateways use to discover and connect to an orchestrator node for job submission.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "ServiceRegistry",
      "definition": "Smart contract where orchestrators register their service URI for gateway discovery.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Session",
      "definition": "Active logical connection between a gateway and an orchestrator during which one or more jobs are processed.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Siphon",
      "definition": "Lightweight component directing incoming work to the correct processing path within an orchestrator, or routing a subset of network traffic to specific orchestrators for staged rollout.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Slashing",
      "definition": "Penalty mechanism that destroys a portion of an orchestrator's bonded LPT stake for protocol violations such as failing verification or missing verifications.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Smoke Test",
      "definition": "Preliminary test verifying that an AI pipeline or node configuration is working correctly before deploying to production or accepting live traffic.",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Solo Operator",
      "definition": "Orchestrator deployment where a single operator runs a complete orchestrator node with all components on one machine, without pool workers.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "SPE (Special Purpose Entity)",
      "definition": "Treasury-funded organisational unit with a defined scope, budget, and accountability structure for executing ecosystem initiatives.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Stable Diffusion",
      "definition": "Open-source latent diffusion model for text-to-image generation, operating in a compressed latent space for efficient high-quality image synthesis.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Stake Weight",
      "definition": "An orchestrator's proportional influence in the network, determined by total bonded LPT (self-stake plus delegated stake), affecting active set rank, reward share, and governance vote weight.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "StreamDiffusion",
      "definition": "Optimised real-time diffusion pipeline using stream batching and stochastic similarity filtering to achieve interactive frame rates for live video transformation.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Subgraph",
      "definition": "Custom open API defining how Livepeer on-chain data is indexed and queried via GraphQL, built on The Graph protocol.",
      "category": "web3",
      "tags": [
        "web3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Text-to-Image",
      "definition": "AI pipeline generating an image from a natural language text prompt using a language encoder and diffusion model.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Text-to-Speech",
      "definition": "AI pipeline synthesising spoken audio from written text input via phonetic conversion and neural audio synthesis.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "TicketBroker",
      "definition": "Smart contract managing the probabilistic micropayment system, holding gateway funds and processing winning ticket redemptions.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Throughput",
      "definition": "Rate of successful data processing per unit time, measuring the volume of work an orchestrator can complete (segments transcoded per second, or AI requests per minute).",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Titan Node",
      "definition": "Community orchestrator group in Western North America providing education, Start Up Grants, and pre-configured hardware for running Livepeer orchestrators.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Transcoding",
      "definition": "Direct digital-to-digital conversion of video from one encoding to another, producing multiple adaptive renditions at different resolutions and bitrates.",
      "category": "video",
      "tags": [
        "video"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Transcode Fail Rate",
      "definition": "Percentage of source segments that an orchestrator fails to transcode successfully, used as a performance and reliability metric by gateways.",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Treasury",
      "definition": "On-chain pool of LPT and ETH governed by token holder votes, used for funding public goods and ecosystem development initiatives.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Upscale / Upscaling",
      "definition": "AI pipeline increasing the resolution of an image or video frame using neural models that predict high-frequency detail not present in the source.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "USD Pricing",
      "definition": "Pricing approach where orchestrators denominate work costs in US dollars, using a price feed to dynamically convert to wei as the ETH/USD rate fluctuates.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "VRAM (Video RAM)",
      "definition": "Dedicated memory on a GPU used to store graphics data, AI model weights, intermediate tensors, and video frames during processing.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Warm Model",
      "definition": "AI model already loaded into GPU memory and ready to serve inference requests immediately, without cold-start latency.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Webhook",
      "definition": "HTTP callback mechanism triggered by an event, sending a POST request to a configured URL to notify external services of state changes.",
      "category": "technical",
      "tags": [
        "technical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Webhook Discovery",
      "definition": "Mechanism for orchestrators to dynamically advertise their AI capabilities to gateways via HTTP webhook callbacks rather than only relying on on-chain registration.",
      "category": "livepeer",
      "tags": [
        "livepeer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Wei",
      "definition": "The smallest denomination of Ether, where 1 ETH equals 10^18 Wei; used in on-chain calculations and Livepeer pricing parameters.",
      "category": "web3",
      "tags": [
        "web3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Whisper",
      "definition": "OpenAI's encoder-decoder transformer model for speech recognition and translation, pretrained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio.",
      "category": "ai",
      "tags": [
        "ai"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Win Probability",
      "definition": "The configured likelihood that any given micropayment ticket is a winning ticket; a lower probability means larger face values per winning ticket.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Winning Ticket",
      "definition": "Probabilistic payment ticket whose random outcome meets the configured threshold, entitling the holder to redeem its face value in ETH on-chain.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Workload",
      "definition": "Total amount of work assigned to an orchestrator – the aggregate of active sessions, concurrent segments, and AI inference requests being processed at a given time.",
      "category": "operational",
      "tags": [
        "operational"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Yield",
      "definition": "Return earned from staking LPT and performing work, expressed as an annual percentage combining inflationary LPT rewards and ETH service fees.",
      "category": "economic",
      "tags": [
        "economic"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
