The Edge is Live
As of July 24th, 2025, the wait is over.
The Edge is now officially live.
3700+ nodes across 36+ countries are now connected, forming a powerful, decentralized and global compute mesh, powered by tokenized rewards.
This marks a major leap toward an infrastructure optimized for real-time AI workloads, powering everything from LLMs to robotics, AR/VR and more.
This network is fast, secure, decentralized.
Built by the people.
Built for the people.
A New Era: Smart Edge, Real AI
Just like how two industrial revolutions in the past gave us machines that saved us a lot of time, resources, made our lives easier and more convenient, today we enter a new phase: The AI Era.
With rising demand for smarter infrastructure in daily life such as autonomous vehicles, smart homes, centralized cloud systems fall short because they are too fragile, too expensive and slow, while current Edge AI solutions mostly focus on content streaming and lack the capacity for real-time inference at scale.
That’s why The Edge was built, all from scratch.
A decentralized compute network, ready for real-world AI.
From personal devices to enterprise-grade infrastructure, The Edge is the foundation of real, scalable, and local intelligence.
$TOPS: The Fuel of The Edge
The network goes live alongside the launch of $TOPS.
If the 3-Layer Native Infrastructure is the framework of The Edge, $TOPS is definitely the fuel that makes The Edge run perfectly by serving several crucial functions:
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Compute Rewards: Weekly $TOPS payouts to Edge Device Operators based on uptime, task performance, and compute contribution.
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Staking & Auto Re-invest: Earn and boost rewards by staking $TOPS and re-invest weekly compute earnings automatically.
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Governance: Participate in on-chain decisions, shaping the future of The Edge (coming soon).
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AI Use: Pay for compute tasks, unlock premium app features, and prioritize workloads.
More specific utilities will be introduced in the near future.
$TOPS total supply is 10B tokens with 50% for Edge Operation Rewards. Our Tokenomics is designed for long-term, sustainable growth and expansion of The Edge and its ecosystem.
► Learn more: $TOPS Tokenomics
How To Acquire $TOPS?
You can acquire $TOPS by purchasing on supported exchanges:
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BitMart Exchange: TBU at 2PM (UTC), July 24, 2025
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MachineX: TBA
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And more to come
Need a place to store your $TOPS? The $TOPS token is compatible with a wide selection of wallets that support peaq network, such as:
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And others
Built on peaq: Security, Scalablity, Sovereign
The peaq blockchain, the specialized layer-1 blockchain designed to power DePINs, is the foundation of the Machine Economy, a positive-sum economy made up of billions of devices, robots, vehicles and machines providing and rendering services via real-world dApps now known as DePINs.
peaq blockchain provides:
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On-chain verification and reward tracking for devices
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Sovereign digital identity (DID) for each node
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Secure and sustainable economic incentives
Combining peaq’s provided capabilities with our native infrastructure, The Edge delivers:
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Real-time AI workloads start running directly on local devices
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Private, low-latency inference becomes possible without relying on centralized cloud
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Developers can begin building AI apps across the network
The Edge in Action:
Thousands of Edge Devices are now live and powering real world applications:
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Real-time AI: Run LLMs, robotics, AR/VR, and inference locally
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Privacy-first: No cloud required, secure and verifiable on-chain
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Global scale: Live nodes across 36+ countries, with high throughput and ultralow latency
Applications include:
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AI assistants and LLMs
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Autonomous systems and vehicles
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Privacy-focused surveillance
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Robotics, AR/VR, and gaming
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Local voice and image recognition
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More to come across industries
Final Words
The Edge is not just an edge network, it is a movement, a truly decentralized infrastructure owned by people, powered by people, to bring AI to the real world.
By connecting real devices, enabling real compute, and driving real rewards, The Edge marks a revolution in how AI is built and delivered.
Therefore: Run your device. Join the network. Power the future.
Believe in The Edge!
Edge Node: ON! 🌐
Run your device
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