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<\/p>\nThe project\u2019s private fiber network bypasses the public internet to accelerate blockchains.<\/p>\n
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\n DoubleZero\u2019s dedicated routing infrastructure spans five continents and 30 cities at launch <\/p>\n
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\n Posted October 2, 2025 at 9:00 am EST. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, DoubleZero launched its mainnet-beta, a new global network of private fiber routes designed to handle blockchain traffic faster and more predictably than the public internet.<\/p>\n
The project has already signed on 386 Solana validators, representing more than 20% of network stake, to route data over its private backbone. That backbone spans 70+ leased fiber connections across 30 cities and five continents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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While Solana is the first network supported, DoubleZero is designed to be chain-agnostic, with plans to support other blockchains and distributed systems in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are building a parallel internet for high performance distributed systems like blockchains,\u201d said Austin Federa, co-founder of the project, on the Unchained podcast.<\/p>\n
Fixing the Internet<\/p>\n
Federa argues that crypto\u2019s scaling bottlenecks have shifted away from software.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you benchmark the actual validator clients, you can get hundreds of thousands if not a million transactions per second,\u201d he said. But performance like that is rarely seen outside testnets, because the public internet isn\u2019t built to support it.<\/p>\n
In actuality, a transaction initiated through a wallet like Phantom might pass through an RPC node in one city, then get routed halfway around the world to wherever the block leader is located, all within a 1.6-second slot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe public internet was never built for this,\u201d said Federa. There, routing is indirect, latency is inconsistent, and packet timing (or jitter) varies wildly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Read More: The Onchain 5: How Telegram and Binance Turn Going Onchain Into Fun and Games<\/a><\/p>\n DoubleZero\u2019s alternative is a private network composed of leased high-speed fiber lines, akin to the private data networks operated by Jump or Meta, but made accessible to validators and RPCs.<\/p>\n \u201cYou get much more direct routing, which has much lower latency and also much higher bandwidth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n A Network With Real Costs<\/p>\n Unlike most crypto infrastructure, DoubleZero isn\u2019t just software. It requires cables, routers, and contracts. Contributors to the network are mostly infrastructure providers with long-term leases on fiber, who make bandwidth available and get compensated in 2Z, the project\u2019s native token.<\/p>\n DoubleZero does not own or operate the network itself. Instead, software is developed by independent teams like Malbec Labs, while the network is run by external contributors, similar to how blockchains rely on validators to operate independently.<\/p>\n Federa said, \u201cThe network is run by the people who choose to show up and contribute to it. It\u2019s not run by the company developing the software.\u201d<\/p>\n Drama: The Jump Allocation<\/p>\n One contributor in particular drew attention this week: Jump, which received 28% of the 2Z token supply, with 5% unlocked on day one.<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0DeFi Tokens Surge \u2014 But These Hidden Gems Could Shine Next<\/a><\/p>\n