In Solana news today, the DoubleZero Foundation launched Edge, a public beta platform that delivers Solana block data through a private global fiber network using multicast, bypassing the public Internet to reduce average delivery times by 6 milliseconds – the same data distribution rate used by traditional exchanges for decades.
Summary
- Edge was launched with 379 warrants publishing shreds, comprising approximately 43% of the total value of Solana, Jito, Triton, Staking Facilities, and Harmonic participating as initial launch partners.
- Traders register with USDC each device at a time, prices range from $30 to $100 depending on the city, while the revenue is divided by 50% to network providers, 32.5% to verifiers from shreds, and 17.5% to protocol customers, 10% goes to the method of protocol burning.
- DoubleZero, founded by former Solana Foundation communications director Austin Federa, raised $28 million in March 2025 in a round led by Multicoin Capital and Dragonfly Capital.
In Solana news today, the DoubleZero Foundation launched Edge, a public beta platform that delivers Solana block data through a private global fiber network using multicast, bypassing the public Internet and reducing average data delivery times by 6 milliseconds compared to a traditional route. The service went live on Thursday as 379 validators actively published shreds.
The data subscribers receive is raw – identical UDP packets extracted by the Solana leader before any third-party processing. Rebuilding, coding, and strategic thinking remain on the subscriber side. Access is invalid; payment is in USDC per device at a time, approximately every two days.
Solana’s blockchain data currently travels through the public internet, introducing unpredictable delays, forcing trading firms to cobble together combinations of APIs, RPC nodes, and CDN connections with varying performance roofs. Edge is changing that approach with multicasting. A single broadcast is sent once and replicated at the network level, reaching all subscribers in a single hop from the Solana leader without a relay tree and without the benefits of standing between participants.
A gain of 6 milliseconds is average. During high network activity – the most important conditions for high-frequency trading firms and market makers – the benefit from dedicated fiber compounds. Solana’s growing DEX volume has already placed five Solana targets in the world’s top-10 for daily trading activity. Traders competing in that space are working on the edge of output where milliseconds translate directly into profit.
DoubleZero co-founder Andrew McConnell made the case clear. “Traditional funds have spent decades building an infrastructure where speed and deterministic performance are real competitive advantages,” he said. “On-chain markets haven’t found that foundation, which has left even top-tier trading firms operating on an uneven playing field.”
Validation Revenue Model
Verifiers earn more money by publishing shreds on Edge, which creates a direct economic incentive for consistent, low-latency data publication that works independently of block rewards and high yields. Current subscription prices range from $30 to $100 per period depending on the city until May 2026. Revenue is distributed per period: 50% to network providers providing fiber links, 32.5% to verifiers from shreds, and 17.5% to protocol customers. An additional 10% burns a native protocol token.
DoubleZero plans to expand Edge data coverage beyond Solana shreds to include centralized exchange feeds, predictive market data, and order data through traditional order exchanges, positioning the platform as a unified data layer for all on-chain and off-chain markets. That desire resides directly in Solana’s extensive narrative for 2026, which includes the adaptation of the Alpenglow protocol that targets at the end of 150ms and the Firedancer client that targets more than one million per second.
Institutional Context
DoubleZero raised $28 million from Multicoin Capital and Dragonfly Capital in March 2025. The project was coordinated by Austin Federa, who previously worked as the head of strategy and communications at the Solana Foundation, providing a direct list to the community of network infrastructure development. The launch of Edge beta marks the first time a dedicated market data distribution product is live on a major Layer-1 blockchain in a format that clearly mirrors that of Bloomberg and Reuters-style direct data feeds to traditional markets – a gap that institutional trading firms have cited as a structural deterioration of real estate since DeFial began competing.
