Three major cloud outages in the first quarter of 2025 alone. Millions of businesses taken offline. Billions lost. And every single time, the cause was the same: too much of the internet running through too few pipes, controlled by too few companies.
This was never how the internet was supposed to work. The original vision was genuinely radical: a distributed, open network that no single entity could own or take down. That vision didn't fail, it got abandoned. Quietly, gradually, and with our collective permission. A handful of companies built the infrastructure, the rest of the world moved in, and somewhere along the way we all agreed to pretend that was fine. It isn't fine. When one company has a bad day, half the internet goes with it. We've watched it happen repeatedly this year alone.
Edge was built on the refusal to accept that. Since 2013, we've believed one thing consistently: the internet should never have been owned by anyone, and it still doesn't have to be. Every node that joins our network is a small act of taking it back, of building something distributed and resilient by design.
You may have noticed we've been quiet. We owe you an honest explanation for that, and a genuine apology for the silence. The truth is we never stopped building. Not for a single day. But we reached a point where we had to make a choice: keep talking, or go deep and get it right. We chose to get it right. In this industry, it's often the quietest teams that build the furthest, and we've always believed that what you ship matters more than what you announce. That said, we know silence has a cost, and we're grateful to everyone who stayed with us through it. We're back now, and stronger than we've ever been.
Being at the forefront of decentralised infrastructure for over a decade means we've had a front-row seat to every major shift in this industry. Nothing has shifted it more completely than AI. Not just in what software does, but in what infrastructure needs to be. And the centralised model, already showing its cracks, is being stress-tested in ways it was never built to handle.
We built Edge for exactly this world. But getting here required us to be honest about something: the complexity we'd accumulated over the years was slowing everyone down, including us. So we went back to the foundations, stripped everything back, and rebuilt with one clear goal in mind: mass adoption. Not just for the crypto-native community that has supported us from the beginning, but for every developer, every enterprise, and every organisation that deserves a better infrastructure.
Today we're sharing the biggest upgrade in Edge's history, and a clear picture of what's coming next.
Two Worlds, One Infrastructure
The most important thing to understand about what we're launching today is that it represents a genuine split in direction, not just for Edge, but for what cloud infrastructure needs to look like from here.
Edge Network is the cloud. A fully decentralised cloud platform built for enterprises, SMEs, developers, and increasingly for the AI agents and autonomous systems that are becoming the primary consumers of compute.
But the cloud is only the beginning. The world is moving toward a machine economy, where AI agents transact with each other, where machines buy and sell compute autonomously, at a speed and scale that no centralised provider was ever designed to handle.
That foundation is XE. A fully open, permissionless infrastructure layer and compute marketplace where no single party has an advantage. Agent-to-agent. Machine-to-machine. Native identity for every participant, whether human, organisation, or autonomous system. Payments that settle directly between machines, without intermediaries. An open marketplace where resources are bought and sold on equal terms by anyone. No party gets preferential treatment, including us. Infrastructure owned by everyone and controlled by no one.
There is one thing we want to be clear about now: everyone who has believed in Edge and held with us through the journey so far will be at the centre of what comes next. EDGE holders are not being left behind. Quite the opposite. The community that has supported this project since the beginning will have a foundational role in both of these journeys, and we'll be laying out exactly what that looks like when we reveal the full XE story soon.
This isn't a new direction. It's where Edge was always heading.
Independently Verified as One of the Fastest Networks on the Planet
Edge Network is now benchmarked by PerfOps, one of the most respected independent monitoring providers in the industry.
The results are consistent: we rank amongst the fastest providers globally for both CDN and DNS, regularly outperforming names that have had decades and billions of dollars to build their position.
Live comparisons are available at edge.network/cdn/performance and edge.network/dns/performance.
Our network grows through decentralisation. Every node that connects makes the network bigger, faster, and more resilient, because content gets served from wherever is physically closest to the person requesting it. That could be a data centre. It could be your neighbour's node.
That's the architecture, and it's why our average latency sits at 10.45 ms, making Edge the lowest latency cloud network available today.
It's also why Edge delivers cost savings of between 20% and 95% compared to traditional providers, with no egress fees and no bill that requires a spreadsheet to understand. And while the major providers were making headlines for the wrong reasons this year, Edge stayed online.
Storage Is Now Live
Decentralised Storage has come out of public beta and is available to everyone today.
It's S3-compatible object storage served from the edge, which means it inherits the performance and resilience of the network it runs on. Files are encrypted with AES-256, access is instant, and there are no cold-storage tiers to navigate. You get your data when you need it, from wherever you are, without the latency that comes with storage sitting in a single centralised location.
For teams already using S3-compatible tooling, migration is straightforward. For teams starting fresh, it's the cleanest way to add storage to an Edge deployment without pulling in a separate provider.
Introducing the New Edge Platform
The new Edge Platform launches today with every core product live, production-ready, and available under a single subscription from one control centre.
- CDN covers more than 2,200 edge locations with sub-15ms global latency, PerfOps-verified fastest or runner-up in key markets, with Edge Rules, instant cache purge, and real-time analytics included.
- Compute deploys virtual machines in under 60 seconds across more than 20 global regions, from 1 vCPU to GPU-accelerated workloads, with live resize and private networking.
- DNS delivers sub-10ms globally distributed name resolution, independently verified by PerfOps.
- Storage is S3-compatible, AES-256 encrypted, served from the edge, with no cold-storage tiers and instant access.
- Pulse is a distributed monitoring service running from thousands of nodes globally, giving you a genuinely independent view of your uptime and performance from the edge rather than from a handful of centralised monitoring locations.
The new account portal is the single place to deploy, manage, and monitor across the full stack, redesigned from scratch to match the clarity of the platform itself. Five subscription tiers, all features bundled, 25% or more in savings versus per-service pricing, and a 30-day trial from $2.50. No complexity tax. No surprise bills. The referral program offers 15% commission on revenue in Year 1, 10% in Year 2, and 5% in Year 3.
Built for Developers and AI Agents Alike
AI agents should be able to deploy and manage infrastructure the same way a senior engineer would, without anyone supervising the process. We built the entire platform around that principle, and we're calling it the Agentic Edge Cloud. Alongside it, we've shipped a full suite of developer tooling designed to eliminate the busywork that slows teams down.
For AI agents:
- The Edge Agent API is discovery-first: the agent learns what it can do, what limits exist, and what's already deployed before taking any action. Every response includes cost context and a human-readable summary the agent can pass directly back to you. A single call can set up a storage bucket, handle file uploads, and configure CDN, domain, SSL, and DNS.
- Agent Access Codes give each agent scoped credentials with precisely defined access and budget limits, separate from standard API keys. Each agent gets only what it needs.
- Projects group related resources into a single manageable unit with unified health checks, cost tracking, and clean teardown when you're done.
For developers:
- The Edge CLI fits straight into existing workflows, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines, with full attribution logging so teams always know what ran, when, and from where. Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- The Command Palette puts every action one keystroke away from anywhere in the control panel. Context-aware, fast, and once you're used to it, going back feels impossible.
- API Keys make everything scriptable and automatable in about a minute.
- test.network Domains give every project a real working domain with SSL in seconds, for a dollar a month, without touching DNS configuration. Built for staging environments, client previews, and moving fast.
The new Edge website has been redesigned from the ground up to reflect what Edge actually is, clearly and without apology.
Real-time verified performance comparisons, full product breakdowns, transparent pricing across five tiers, and a 30-day trial for a small fee. Documentation has been simplified and restructured, readable by humans and machines alike. Both will keep evolving as new products come online.
Existing Account Holders: Here's What You Need to Do
If you had an account with us previously, here's everything you need to know to get back up and running.
- If you have an active account, head to edge.network and reset your password to regain access. Your 2FA remains active and will be prompted as usual once your password is reset.
- If you have an active account but no longer have access to your email, contact us at support@edge.network within the next 7 days and we'll work with you to restore your services. After that point, any services tied to unverified accounts will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.
- If your account was recently suspended and you'd like to recover it, reach out to us at support@edge.network. We're happy to help get you back on the platform, though you will need to settle any outstanding balance before your account can be reinstated.
If you're unsure which of the above applies to you, just email us and we'll figure it out together. We'd rather have you back than lose you to an admin issue.
What Comes Next
The centralised cloud model is breaking down. The outages will keep coming. The bills will keep climbing. The concentration of power will keep producing exactly the fragility it was supposed to solve. That's not pessimism. It's just what happens when you build the internet wrong and refuse to change it.
We've been building the alternative since 2013, not because it was the easy path, but because we genuinely believe the internet should be owned by everyone and controlled by no one. The new platform is the clearest expression yet of what Edge has always stood for. That world is here now, and we're going after it.
There's more being built at a foundational level, on XE, that goes beyond what any single cloud can offer. We'll be laying it out in full very soon. And when we do, the community that has been with us from the beginning will understand exactly why we've been so quiet, and exactly why it was worth it.
If you've been with us since the beginning: welcome back to something sharper, faster, and built for where things are going. If you're new here, there's no better time to start. New users get 50% off for the first three months. Apply the promo code at checkout.