TL;DR:
DoubleZero Foundation launched the public beta of Edge, the first platform dedicated to onchain market data distribution. The product solves a structural problem affecting all onchain market participants: Solana block data currently travels over the public internet, generating unpredictable latency and forcing trading firms to assemble combinations of APIs, RPCs and CDN connections with varying performance ceilings.
Edge replaces that model with multicast, the same data distribution standard used by traditional exchanges for decades. Validators publish shreds directly into a multicast stream over DoubleZero’s dedicated fiber network. The data is sent once and replicated at the network level, reaching all subscribers in a single hop from the leader, with no relay tree and no positional advantages among participants.
On average, Solana shreds arrive 6 milliseconds faster through Edge than with other distribution services. Under high congestion or network degradation conditions, the advantage is amplified: over 20 milliseconds in Europe, over 80 milliseconds in the U.S. and over 100 milliseconds in Asia. The overall improvement measured at the 95th percentile is 28 milliseconds over Jito shredstream. At launch, 379 validators are publishing shreds to Edge, representing approximately 43% of Solana’s total stake. Jito, Triton, Staking Facilities and Harmonic are participating as initial launch partners.
The data subscribers receive is ‘raw’ — the same UDP packets emitted by the leader, with no prior processing by any intermediary. Reconstruction, decoding and strategy logic remain entirely on the subscriber’s side.
Access to Edge is permissionless. Payment is made in USDC per device per epoch, approximately two days. Current prices through May 2026 range from $30 to $100 USDC per epoch depending on the city. Revenue is distributed automatically each epoch: 50% to network contributors, 32.5% to validators originating shreds and 17.5% to protocol client teams. An additional 10% goes toward a protocol burn mechanism.
DoubleZero’s platform is designed to incorporate additional feeds beyond Solana shreds, including CEX data, prediction markets and order-by-order data from traditional exchanges.
