Edge & Edge gives regulated entities, semi-regulated entities, and entities merely anticipating regulation the structured, auditable, broadly rectangular blockchain data they require — without disclosing what is inside.
Building the right blockchain infrastructure is half the problem. The other half is also a problem. We address neither, jointly, at the edge.
Every edge has precisely two sides. We are presently concerned with both, and reserve the right to discover a third.
Ref. E&E-I.aAuthority is distributed evenly across the perimeter, then recalled centrally for review. This is decentralization.
Ref. E&E-I.bThe substrate underlies everything. We sit beneath the substrate, administering it upward, on a quarterly basis.
Ref. E&E-I.cA full suite of composable instruments for operating at the edge. Each is permissionless, verifiable, and available pending submission of the appropriate form.
A foundational building block — not, we stress, the end product. A permissionless boundary placed around an interior we are not at liberty to describe.
Provisionally LiveA decentralized protocol for querying things you already knew — slower, and with provenance.
Pending ReviewComposable units of deferred responsibility. Deploy a Subcommittee to index any decision indefinitely.
ConvenedLike streams, but underneath, and slower, and you must apply in writing to the relevant Subcommittee.
UnderflowingWe maintain a literal firehose. For regulatory reasons. Under no circumstances approach the firehose.
PressurizedA trustless ledger recording who said what, near whom, and whether — on balance — it counted.
NotedBuilt for entities under, near, or anticipating regulation. Select your classification below to view the uses to which you are entitled.
Four reasons, ratified by the Standing Working Group on Standing.
You own your data. We also own your data. Ownership is distributed such that, ultimately, no one owns anything. This is sovereignty.
Every dataset traces cleanly to an onchain source, a Subcommittee, and at least one documented regret.
Built for institutions navigating rules that do not yet exist, will exist shortly, or existed briefly and were quietly withdrawn.
Watt. integrates with your existing systems, making them considerably more aware of us, if not more useful.
In blockchain, the question regulators always end up asking is the same:
We cannot. But we can prove, to audit grade, that we cannot — and a proof of the absence of proof is itself a kind of proof. Watt. makes this rigorous, reproducible, and available for examination.
Banking-grade security and compliance, self-administered. Designed for institutions that need to be seen to need things.
Self-certified, annually, by us, to us, on our own letterhead.
In process. In process since inception. It will remain, indefinitely, in process.
We have a comprehensive map. The territory it describes is, regrettably, redacted.
Incident response is immediate: upon detection, we convene a Subcommittee.
DPAs, SLAs, and one (1) NDA, which you entered into upon reading this card.
Available upon submission of Form E&E-7B, in triplicate, in person, to the Annex.
Edge & Edge is governed by its community, its Subcommittees, and the Standing Working Group on Standing. All decisions are open, on-chain, and pending.
This proposal proposes the establishment of a formal process by which future proposals may be proposed, reviewed, tabled, escalated, and ultimately retabled. The proposal to define the process for proposing proposals is itself subject to the very process it proposes, and may not be ratified until ratified. Discussion remains open. It will remain open. A vote will be scheduled once a process for scheduling votes has been proposed, reviewed, and — in accordance with EEP-1 — tabled.
Issued by the Compliance Subcommittee, on behalf of the Standing Working Group on Standing. The posting of notices is itself subject to notice.
Edge & Edge is, and has always been, permissionless. You are welcome to build at the edge. Nobody is stopping you. 🤷
Should you build something, it will exist. Whether it is supported, marketed, made discoverable, listed, named, or acknowledged is governed separately — by the narrative, which is administered centrally, on a timeline presently under review.
* Distribution, marketing, business development, placement, and the narrative are not permissionless, were never permissionless, and would be a frankly ridiculous thing to make permissionless. Focus is a scarce resource. It has been allocated. Not to you.
Per Server Bylaw 47-B, all forms of merriment, jest, and image-adjacent content now constitute a Tier-1 Spam Event. Following an unprecedented influx of bad actors — several disguised as JPEGs — the Subcommittee has determined that any pixel may be a loophole, and that any loophole is, by definition, an attack vector.
This rule cannot be lifted for a single channel, message, or emoji. The Subcommittee therefore recommends the archival of the memes channel, the concept of memes, and — pending further review — humour itself.
This decision is final and will be enforced by the Department of Fun Prevention. Thank you for your cooperation. o7
Answers are provided for completeness, and should not be mistaken for information.
Our leadership brings decades of combined experience at the edge. Names are withheld pending review of the perimeter.
† Photographs withheld pending review of the perimeter. The Keeper of the Firehose is not to be approached.
We encourage you to apply anyway. The perimeter is large, and someone must stand at its edge.
We cannot help you find the territory. But the map is audit-grade, reproducible, and entirely rectangular.
Your request to enter the perimeter has been received and placed in the queue. It will be processed in the order in which it was received, and in no particular order.
A member of the Standing Membership will not be in touch. Please retain this ticket for your records, and for the records of the Annex.