Fleek and Polygon Labs Partner to Enhance Onchain Cloud Services

Fleek, an edge-optimized onchain cloud platform, and Polygon Labs, renowned for building a network of aggregated blockchains, have announced a strategic collaboration.

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This partnership aims to deliver high-performance, permissionless web services tailored for Polygon CDK projects and other initiatives on the Polygon network. Fleeks recent benchmarks have demonstrated its potential to outperform traditional cloud services like AWS Lambda.

In conjunction with this collaboration, Fleek is launching its first public testnet, featuring CDN and JavaScript Runtime services, with Edge Functions as the initial use case.

“We are thrilled to team up with Polygon Labs to provide Polygon CDK developers with onchain alternatives for their cloud infrastructure needs. Our goal is to develop web services that offer real benefits from both decentralization and self-sovereignty perspectives, as well as in terms of performance, cost, and developer experience.”

Harrison Hines, CEO at Fleek

Fleek‘s infrastructure has showcased impressive performance during testnet trials. In a simple edge function test, Fleek’s average time to first byte (TTFB)—a key measure of network responsiveness—was 37.02 milliseconds. This is significantly faster than AWS Lambda (274.22 ms) and Vercel Serverless (103.09 ms).

“Most blockchains offering traditional web services aren‘t performant enough for modern developers and users,” added Hines. “Fleek leverages decentralization for both security and performance, and our early test results show it’s effective.”

Aligning with Web3 Principles

Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder at Polygon Labs, highlighted the alignment with Web3 values: “Accessibility, democracy, and freedom of choice are core principles of Web3. Fleeks vision supports these principles by offering more freedom in cloud infrastructure tools, making the Polygon network more flexible and diverse.”

Polygon CDK is a modular, open-source toolkit for blockchain developers to launch new L2 chains on Ethereum. Currently used by notable projects like IDEX, WIREX, Palm Network, and Immutable, the need for reliable cloud infrastructure is paramount. Traditionally, developers have relied on corporate cloud platforms like AWS, which can be costly and come with risks such as censorship and security vulnerabilities.

Fleek‘s approach addresses these issues by offering a decentralized, low-cost, and self-sovereign alternative. Their global network of web infrastructure operators (nodes) reduces costs by eliminating the human factors that typically account for 75-80% of cloud costs. Moreover, Fleek’s infrastructure saves developers time by providing permissionless, high-performance, auto-scalable services without the need for extensive DevOps and maintenance.

Decentralization for Better Efficiency

Drawing parallels to successful decentralized physical infrastructure networks like Uber and Airbnb, Fleek leverages blockchain technology to coordinate, align, and incentivize network participants. This approach can lead to enhanced efficiencies and superior products for users.