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The world's first dedicated edge network. Peer-to-peer, powered by the blockchain and built using the spare capacity all around us.
Edge is kinder to the environment, fairer to people and better for business.
It offers services that are faster, cheaper and more secure than the cloud.
Current Status
Developed over four years, the Edge Network has recently gone live with its first core service: CDN
The network’s storage solution moves to beta this year.
Multiple additional services are in the road map, including Edge Compute, a KVDB and ML tools.
Highlights
- The token of the Edge Network, $EDGE, was launched in January 2018 through a crowdsale and token distribution event to our community
- Contributing capacity to the network is possible today using Linux based devices, with Mac, Windows and Mobile versions expected soon
- There are currently over 500 nodes active on the network in 51 countries and 157 cities, processing c32 million requests per month, delivering content for established businesses
The Edge Paradigm
Edge networking is a distributed computing paradigm which brings data storage and computation as close to the point of need as possible, pushing applications, data and computing power away from centralised data centers.
This reduces the volumes of data that must be moved, the consequent traffic, and the distance the data must travel, providing lower latency and reduced transmission costs. It’s better for the environment too.
The Edge Network is a tokenised platform: it uses its own utility token as the mechanism for buying and selling services in the network, enabling individuals to participate through the contribution of their spare computational power.
Blockchain for Value Transfer
The Edge Network is a tokenised platform. Revenues from network use are converted to the $EDGE utility token, and these are distributed to nodes in the network in return for their computational power.
$EDGE is a deflationary token with a fixed supply: individuals who contribute to the network provide a stake in $EDGE in order to do so, reducing the circulating supply of the token, making it more scarce, and increasing its value over time.
In summary: with services charged based on a fixed US$ price, as we experience growth in customers using the network, more nodes are required, which reduces the tokens that are available to buy services, resulting in an ever higher $ purchasing value.
Key Benefits
1. Performance
Edge’s architecture creates a hyper-local peering system that routes traffic from nodes that are as close to the end consumer as possible – going as far as delivering within the local network loop.
This reduces the distance and volume of data being moved, which massively increases the performance of services.
2. Security
Files stored within the Edge Network are broken in to hundreds of encrypted fragments, with no one file stored on a single machine.
This removes the attack vector for file storage, providing a platform that is significantly more secure than traditional storage methods.
3. Price
Because it’s making use of existing capacity, the costs in the Edge Network are significantly lower than in traditional cloud environments.
We are seeing average cost savings of c77% vs. traditional cloud providors.
Customers that also contribute capacity to the network can unlock further discounts.
4. The Environment
Traditional data centers consume roughly 3% of all globally generated power and account for approximately 2% of greenhouse gas emissions – a carbon footprint equivalent to the airline industry.
In contrast to this, because it is making use of existing device capacity, every request within the Edge Network represents a net carbon saving.
First Service: Edge CDN
Fast and cost-efficient content delivery at the edge. A CDN that makes websites, APIs, eCommerce stores, mobile applications and SaaS platforms more performant and highly secure.
CDN Features
Hyper Local
Edge CDN has hundreds of nodes in over 60 countries, getting your content closer to your audience than ever before.
Integrated Image Transformation
Full media pipeline allows for just in time image transformation: Blur, filter, flip, format, resize, rotate, saturate, sharpen and crop.
Offsets the weight of media management to your delivery solution.
Real Time Optimisation
Real time compression and resizing of assets at the point of request saves an average of 60% in filesize, speeding up delivery and reducing your overall costs
End to End TLS
Take workload off your origin by serving SSL certificates from the edge, accelerating performance and increasing availability.
Cost Effective
Edge CDN saves 30%+ on average vs. traditional content distribution networks as a result of better media compression and the use of edge devices instead of centralised data centers.
Key Links
Website: https://edge.network
Explorer: https://explorer.edge.network
Documents
- Technology white paper: http://dadi.link/id
- Source code: https://github.com/edge
Connect with the Team
- Telegram: https://t.me/edgenetwork
- Discord: https://discord.gg/3sEvuYJ
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/edgenetwork
- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/edgenetwork
- Medium: https://medium.com/dadi
