In Solana news today, the Foundation launched DoubleZero Edge, a public beta platform that delivers raw Solana block data through a private global fiber network using multicast, bypassing the public Internet to cut average delivery times by 6 milliseconds — the same data distribution standard that traditional exchanges have used for decades.
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- Edge launched with 379 validators posting snippets, covering approximately 43% of Solana’s total stake, with Jito, Triton, Stake Facilities, and Harmonic participating as initial launch partners.
- Traders stake USDC per device per period, with prices ranging from $30 to $100 depending on the city, while revenue is split 50% to network contributors, 32.5% to validators who create shards, and 17.5% to protocol clients, with 10% going to the protocol’s copying mechanism.
- DoubleZero, co-founded by former Solana Foundation communications director Austin Videra, raised $28 million in March 2025 in a round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Dragonfly Capital.
In Solana news today, DoubleZero Foundation Fired Edge, a public experimental platform that delivers raw Solana data through a private global fiber network using multicast, bypassing the public Internet and reducing average data delivery times by 6 milliseconds compared to traditional routing. The service launched on Thursday with 379 validators actively posting snippets.
The data received by subscribers is the same UDP packets emitted by the Solana Commander before any third party processing. Reconstruction, decoding and strategy logic remain on the subscriber’s side. Access is not permitted; Payment is made in USDC per device per period, approximately every two days.
Solana block data currently travels over the public Internet, resulting in unpredictable latency, forcing businesses to cobble together pools of APIs, RPC nodes, and CDN connections with varying performance ceilings. Edge replaces this path with multicast. A single stream is sent once and repeated network-wide, reaching all subscribers in a single hop from the Solana leader with no relay tree and no positional advantages between participants.
Gain of 6 ms is average. During peak network activity – the most critical conditions for high-frequency trading firms and market makers – take advantage of dedicated fiber composites. Solana is growing Direct implementation size Five of Solana’s original protocols have already placed in the top 10 globally in terms of daily trading activity. Traders competing in that environment operate on execution margins where milliseconds translate directly into profitability.
Andrew McConnell, co-founder of DoubleZero, states the case clearly. “Traditional finance has spent decades building infrastructure where speed and deterministic performance represent a real competitive advantage,” he said. “On-chain markets haven’t got that footing, which has left even sophisticated trading firms operating on uneven ground.”
Auditor revenue model
Validators earn additional income by publishing shards on the Edge, creating a direct economic incentive to publish consistent, low-latency data that operates independently of block rewards and staking returns. Current subscription prices range from $30 to $100 per period depending on the city until May 2026. Revenues are distributed in each period: 50% to network contributors who provide fiber connections, 32.5% to validators who create segments, and 17.5% to protocol customers. An additional 10% burns the protocol’s native token.
DoubleZero plans to expand Edge data coverage beyond Solana parts to include centralized exchange feeds, prediction market data, and traditional on-demand exchange data, positioning the platform as a unified data layer across on-chain and off-chain markets. This ambition falls squarely within Solana’s broader scope Upgrade narrative For 2026, which includes the Alpenglow compatibility overhaul targeting a 150ms finality and the Firedancer client targeting 1 million+ transactions per second.
Institutional context
DoubleZero raised $28 million from Multicoin Capital and Dragonfly Capital in March 2025. The project was co-founded by Austin Videra, who previously served as head of strategy and communications at the Solana Foundation, giving it a direct lineage in the network infrastructure development community. The Edge beta launch marks the first time a product dedicated to distributing market data on a major layer-one blockchain network has been launched in a format that clearly mirrors what Bloomberg and Reuters-style live data feeds provide in traditional markets — a gap that institutional trading firms have pointed to as a structural flaw for on-chain venues since DeFi began competing for institutional streaming.
