Hassan Maishera
The Fleek Network announced on Monday, July 31st, that it had released a new whitepaper describing the decentralized edge platform it is developing.
In a press release shared with Cryptowisser, Fleek Network said the release is followed by the launch of a new open-source GitHub repository for the protocol. This release is a major milestone on the path to launching a testnet for the decentralized edge network in August.
The new whitepaper is an improvement on the original one, and research focused on a decentralized CDN. The team added that the whitepaper introduces a new protocol architecture and design that enables a full-edge network.
The new protocol is designed to support a much wider range of decentralized edge services, including serverless functions, SSR (server-side rendering), container orchestration, various database functions, etc.
Fleek Network intends to provide a shared performance layer that all web3 protocols can leverage. The team believes that this model is better than building its performance layer redundantly for every web3 service or protocol.
Thanks to its protocol-agnostic and modular architecture, Fleek Network’s edge platform can add value to virtually any web3 protocol, service, and app.
While commenting on this latest development, Harrison Hines, CEO and Co-founder of Fleek Network, said:
”Similar to the modern web’s evolution, web3 is quickly moving towards a modular and composable future. Introducing a highly-performant decentralized edge network into the web3 stack as a shared performance layer could help close the gap between web2 and web3 performance, and provide a significant building block for developers on the road to mass web3 adoption.”
The Fleek Network has excellent features like stateless execution, a VM-less core, content addressing and several other performance optimizations. As described in the whitepaper, these features contribute to the overall performance and low latency of the network and the edge services built on top of it.
Parsa Ghadimi, the lead researcher at Fleek Network, added:
“Fleek Network’s architecture replicates the theory the edge brought to web2 to a blockchain architecture: executing services close to users, intelligently scaling up and down, only using resources when and where required. It’s a unique setup in web3 today, geared specifically towards web-service performance and cost requirements.”
Fleek Network said its edge platform will provide these same capabilities in a decentralized way without needing to sacrifice performance, cost, or web3 values.
At the moment, most web3 protocols rely on web2 performance layers to meet the latency expectations of developers and end users.
However, Fleek Network’s decentralized edge platform will usher in a performance layer to the web3 stack. This will enable developers to further decentralize their infra stacks and remove central points of failure while still providing the performance/low latency that their customers demand.
The Fleek Network team added that they plan to release a testnet for their decentralized edge network, which is scheduled to launch in August.
Fleek Network is a decentralized edge platform optimized to facilitate the deployment and running of highly-performant web services. Fleek’s network of edge nodes allows developers to frictionlessly create a multitude of edge services that inherit cryptographically and economically secured infrastructure.
