Fleek and Polygon Labs Join Hands on Highly Performant, Permissionless Cloud Services
Edge-optimized, on-chain cloud platform Fleek has announced a strategic collaboration with the Polygon blockchain developer Polygon Labs.
Per the press release, the two plan to build highly performant, permissionless web services and use cases on top of Fleek’s new on-chain cloud infrastructure, specifically geared towards the needs of Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) projects.
Also, Fleek has announced Edge Functions – its first public testnet featuring CDN (Content Delivery Network) and JavaScript Runtime services and the first use case leveraging these capabilities.
Fleek CEO Harrison Hines explained that most blockchains that provide traditional web services are not performant enough to meet the demands of modern developers and their end users.
He added that the goal of this collaboration is to “develop web services that provide real benefits from both a decentralization and self-sovereignty perspective, as well as from a performance, cost, and developer experience perspective.”
The press release explained that CDK-powered chains, like all other L2s and Rollups, require cloud infrastructure to operate.
Their options are to run the infrastructure directly on corporate cloud platforms like AWS or indirectly via RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) providers. The latter still uses cloud platforms like AWS “under the hood.”
Using AWS and other corporate cloud platforms for L2 and Rollup infrastructure works – but is “far from ideal,” the announcement said.
One of the key issues is that it’s prohibitively expensive.
Additionally, there are issues with censorship, de-platforming, security, liability, and other concerns. These problems make building meaningful software on corporate-controlled infrastructure “more fragile than most
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