Edge computing has become one of the hottest trends in cloud computing as businesses seek to reduce latency and improve user experience by processing data closer to the source. However, centralized edge networks controlled by a single provider offer few benefits over existing cloud infrastructure with glaring cost, scalability, and resilience issues. My guest today, Harrison Hines, CEO at Fleek does a deep dive into this new paradigm that is on the horizon.
Founded in 2018, Fleek is a Web3 developer platform that enables web hosting and storage on several different Web3 protocols. Scheduled for launch in 2023, Fleek will power the content delivery layer for Web3 through Fleek Network, a decentralized, censorship-resistant content and application delivery network with Web2-like performance. Fleek is a remote-first company headquartered in NY with more than 40 team members.
Fleek is a Web3 developer platform that enables web hosting and storage on several different web3 protocols. The current Fleek platform was built mainly on leading Web2 infrastructure providers, such as AWS and Cloudflare, which has prevented the realization of fully decentralizing Web3 hosting and content delivery. Scheduled for launch in 2023, Fleek Network will provide true decentralized and censorship-resistant content and application delivery for Web3, while still achieving Web2-like performance.
“Fleek is providing a critical missing piece to achieving a legitimate decentralized Web3 experience,” said Harrison Hines, co-founder and CEO of Fleek. “With Fleek Network, we will be empowering developers and organizations with an easy and seamless mechanism for Web3 hosting and content delivery that will help deliver on the promise of creating a truly decentralized internet.”
Currently, many Web3 projects store and serve data for their sites, dApps, and NFTs on existing cloud platforms such as AWS and Cloudflare, leaving them vulnerable to the top-down, centralized rules of Web2 development, hosting, and content delivery. By creating a fully decentralized content delivery network that will provide censorship-resistant, high-performance content delivery, Fleek is addressing one of the biggest remaining central points of failure for the Web3 industry.