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OVERVIEW

The Streamr Network is a peer-to-peer network for publishing and subscribing to
data in real-time. Applications use it for decentralized messaging, for example
sharing data across applications or broadcasting real-time state changes to
large audiences. The decentralized nature of the system makes the data transport
scalable, robust, secure, tamper proof, and censorship resistant.

The Streamr Network consists of nodes that interconnect peer-to-peer using the
Streamr protocol. Together, the nodes in the Network form a topic-based
publish-subscribe messaging system. Topics in this messaging system are called
streams. The job of the Network is to deliver published streams of messages to
all subscribers of that stream.

The Streamr Network is a building block for decentralized applications - a
message transport middleware, enabling any number of parties to distribute or
exchange information without directly coupling or relying on a central server to
broker data.

All of the data in the Streamr network is contained inside individual streams.
The data may originate, for example from your app, machines on the factory
floor, sensors in a smart city, in-house databases or systems, or from
commercial streaming data feeds.

For further reading, checkout the light paper and Network white paper.


EXPLORE THE NETWORK

The network is highly dynamic, with a regular cast of Streamr nodes, but also a
constantly revolving number of light nodes appearing and disappearing. The
Network Explorer is an application that brings visibility to the stream
topologies inside the Streamr Network. Being able to explore it helps node
runners inspect their nodes and diagnose any issues.

You can search for areas, say all nodes in Helsinki, streams by path name or
description, as well as specific nodes by generated name or Ethereum address. By
searching or selecting a stream, the nodes participating in the stream overlay
will be shown in both the results list, and on the geo map. Selecting a node in
this list gives you access to all the metrics, and as the full tokenomics rolls
out in Tatum milestone, will also give access to the node’s Ethereum address,
and link out to its transaction history on Etherscan.

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