DLive

DLive is a social livestreaming platform. It launched its beta on the Steem blockchain in December 2017, moved to the Lino blockchain testnet in September 2018, and hosted PewDiePie's first exclusive stream in April 2019 [[91]](#src-91). In December 2019, DLive formed a strategic partnership with BitTorrent, owned by Justin Sun since 2018 [[91]](#src-91); on Jan 8, 2020, BitTorrent announced that its BTT token would become the unit of value of the ecosystem and presented a system in which streamers and viewers earn tokens without sharing their earnings with the platform [[90]](#src-90). In April 2020, DLive launched BTT staking on the TRON blockchain, and on Oct 22, 2020 BitTorrent announced the acquisition of DLive, which then claimed 7 million active users and more than 200,000 active creators [[91]](#src-91). In January 2021, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center as cited by CoinDesk, DLive took 25% of each donation, 20% for the platform and 5% redistributed through staking; after footage of the Jan 6, 2021 breach of the Capitol was streamed on the platform, DLive suspended accounts, froze earnings and refunded donations and subscriptions [[92]](#src-92). On Apr 7, 2026, DLive announced the platform's shutdown and the immediate end of top-ups and subscriptions, asking users to withdraw their Coins, cancel their subscriptions and download their content; the mobile app was then taken offline [[93]](#src-93)[[94]](#src-94). In October 2026, the site states that DLive is no longer in operation [[95]](#src-95).

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