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DoubleZero Foundation has launched Edge, a public beta platform designed to deliver raw Solana block data over a private global fiber network using multicast. The service went live Thursday and aims to reduce average data delivery times by 6 milliseconds compared with conventional routing over the public internet.
Edge launched with 379 validators publishing shreds, covering approximately 43% of Solana’s total stake. Jito, Triton, Staking Facilities, and Harmonic are participating as initial launch partners.
Subscribers receive raw data in the form of UDP packets emitted by the Solana leader before any third-party processing. Reconstruction, decoding, and strategy logic are handled on the subscriber’s side. Access is permissionless, and payment is made in USDC per device per epoch, with epochs occurring approximately every two days.
Solana block data currently travels over the public internet, which can introduce unpredictable latency and force trading firms to combine multiple data sources such as APIs, RPC nodes, and CDN connections. Edge replaces this path with multicast: a single stream is sent once and replicated at the network level, reaching subscribers in one hop from the Solana leader without a relay tree or positional advantages between participants.
The 6-millisecond improvement is described as an average. DoubleZero says the advantage can compound under peak network conditions, which are particularly relevant for high-frequency trading firms and market makers operating in environments where milliseconds can affect execution margins.
Subscription prices range from $30 to $100 per epoch depending on the city, through May 2026. Revenue is distributed each epoch as follows: 50% to network contributors supplying fiber links, 32.5% to validators originating shreds, and 17.5% to protocol clients. An additional 10% is allocated to a protocol burn mechanism.
DoubleZero plans to expand Edge beyond Solana shreds to include centralized exchange feeds, prediction market data, and traditional exchange order-by-order data, positioning the platform as a unified data layer across on-chain and off-chain markets.
The beta launch aligns with Solana’s broader upgrade narrative for 2026, including the Alpenglow consensus overhaul targeting 150ms finality and the Firedancer client targeting over one million transactions per second.
DoubleZero raised $28 million in March 2025 in a round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Dragonfly Capital. The project is co-founded by Austin Federa, who previously served as head of strategy and communications at the Solana Foundation.
DoubleZero says Edge represents a dedicated market data distribution product on a major Layer-1 blockchain that mirrors the direct data-feed approach used in traditional markets, a gap institutional trading firms have cited as a structural disadvantage for on-chain venues since DeFi began competing for institutional flow.
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