Today we are excited to unveil Edgeless Network to the world.
What Is Edgeless Network
Edgeless, the first ever crypto ecosystem without application layer fees, is an L2 powered by Arbitrum Nitro and is the leading place for builders and users to create and engage with decentralized applications.
Our vision is to be the go-to ecosystem for users to interact with DeFi applications, play games, and explore the blockchain without having to break the bank through sky-high fees, which is far too common for consumers who just want to use their favorite dApps.
Most ecosystems and applications tax its most active users, and make it difficult for consumers to stay active on-chain. With Edgeless, these taxes go away, creating the first ever fee-free ecosystem for consumers.
What Makes Us Unique
A common question is why a developer would want to build on the Edgeless ecosystem if the developers charge zero fees to their users. Edgeless was purposefully built to enable these kinds of interactions. By using Arbitrum Nitro, Edgeless has the freedom to fully customize its L2 infrastructure and with Eigenlayer Data Availability, to keep gas fees extremely low on the network (less than $0.01 on average). Edgeless is then able to share these sequencer fees with developers so that they get a direct share of the economic value they bring to the network.
In addition to this, Edgeless uses ezETH by Renzo as the baseline liquidity yield bearing asset and a stablecoin created by Stable to give back yield earned on bridged assets to developers who build on the Edgeless Ecosystem. Because we are using ezETH instead of an LST, we are able to also redistribute the additional yield from the LRT to our users. In collaboration with Hyperlane, the first permissionless interoperability protocol, users will be able to easily bridge ETH to Stable's stablecoin at launch.
Lastly, Edgeless leverages a new Oracle that is enshrined on the base layer, called Warlock, to capture the MEV on-chain and give it back to developers and users.
With each of these three innovations, we are able to save users money and also capture the value that other ecosystems keep for themselves and give it back to the developers.
Our Ethos
Edgeless is built with the end users and developer ecosystem in mind. We strongly believe in being built and owned by the community and have worked to ensure that everyone who contributes to the ecosystem will have a say in the future of the ecosystem.
The Edgeless ecosystem is a collective of applications that all own significant upside in the future of the chain, unlike most other ecosystems from which projects can expect to get a few basis points if they are lucky. By financially aligning everyone who builds on the ecosystem, we can build a safe space for users to interact with applications on the network.
Introducing Our Ecosystem
We are excited to announce the initial applications and partners that will be going live on Edgeless Network over the next few weeks.
Consumer
Sweep.gg – The first live streaming predictions marketplace where users can make predictions on what will happen on their favorite creators live streams.
Evenodds.xyz – The first fully licensed 100% RTP casino.
Betcha – The most capital efficient prediction marketplace, utilizing yield bearing assets.
Tomo – a Web3 social app with a fresh take on exclusive bonds and social capital monetization. Tomo transforms your online presence into a universal social wallet, while fostering spam-free and rewarding interactions.
Moso– Earn crypto while shopping online at any one of our supported merchants like Walmart, SpaceID, eBay, Shopee, and 2,000+ other stores!
Galxe – the leading platform for building web3 communities. With over 16 million unique users and integrations across 34 different blockchains, Galxe has propelled the growth of Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, and more than 4,800 partners with reward-based loyalty programs. Protocols can leverage Web3 credentials from Galxe’s credential data network to power growth, issue Soul Bound Tokens, increase community engagement, boost ecosystem growth, and generate brand awareness.
SPACE ID – SPACE ID is building a universal name service network with a one-stop identity platform to discover, register, trade, manage web3 domains. It also includes a Web3 Name SDK & API for developers across blockchains and provides a multi-chain name service for everyone to easily build and create a web3 identity.
DeFi
Satori.finance – The leading multichain perps platform backed by Polychain, Jump Crypto and Coinbase. With Edgeless, Satori will be the first zero fee perps platform in all of crypto.
KRAV – The pioneer Quanto Perpetual exchange redefining altcoin utility with permissionless single-token altcoin liquidity pools and perpetual futures contracts, accepting any altcoin as collateral.
Warlock.xyz – first of its kind oracle that captures MEV and shares the economics with developers and users on Edgeless
Provenancetrading.xyz – Provenance is building a managed market making protocol that will significantly boost liquidity on DEX order books across different ecosystems, and provide exceptional democratized low-risk returns to any user who wants to be a liquidity provider.
Liftoff.finance – The first fee-free dex where users can make swaps freely
Matcha.finance – first ever lending protocol built with Warlock. Boost yields, use more leverage and hedge more efficiently
Infrastructure
Interoperability
Hyperlane - The first Permissionless Interoperability protocol with a modular stack which empowers developers to connect any chain and build applications that can easily and securely communicate between multiple blockchains.
Follow Our Journey
If you are interested in building on the ecosystem or would like to learn more about our grants program please email us at grants@edgeless.network.
