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Empowering anyone to access enriching media experiences anywhere in the world. 🫡
Joined December 2021
1/ 🚀We’re thrilled to announce our $2.85M raise led by @lattice_fund! The round also includes participation from incredible supporters including @allianceDAO, @protocollabs, @FinalityCap, @ZeePrimeCap, @RW3Venture and @aeyakovenko, founder of @solana(🧵)
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Another Cloudflare outage, maybe it's time to think about your multi-cdn strategy!
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All-in-one solution - Org invites - RBAC - Subscription billing Clerk helps your SaaS grow and monetize faster.
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Why it matters: More users are being served by smaller ISPs that aren't peered with major CDNs. Blockcast's software-based approach lets any operator spin up a node and join our network—bringing better performance to users everywhere, not just big cities. Read the full study 👇
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CDNs, like Blockcast, can make all the marketing claims they want about their CDN’s performance. They can say that their CDN is better…
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We embedded a Blockcast RELAY node in a smaller network operator and saw dramatic improvements in latency and startup times compared to traditional CDNs.⚡ Lower latency🚀 Faster startup times 📈Consistently better QoE
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Does cache placement really matter for CDN performance? We ran the experiment. Short answer: Yes — it matters a lot.
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Multi-CDN strategies are essential—but they add complexity, especially when it comes to capacity reservations. Our latest blog explores why geography matters, how Open Caching helps, and how the Open Capacity Marketplace changes the game. 🌐✨ https://t.co/APle4PETSk
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The use of CDNs is almost like a roller coaster–the industry moves from using one CDN, to using many (multi-CDN delivery), to using just a…
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🚀 We're hiring a DevOps Engineer who thrives on owning infrastructure and building resilient systems! Read more 👇 https://t.co/uew3yukN9o Send your resume to jobs@blockcast.network to apply!
blockcastnet.notion.site
About the Job:
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What makes #DePIN 🔧 truly game-changing is how different physical infrastructure providers - decentralized CDNs and ISPs 🤝 - can now work together—thanks to aligned crypto incentives 💸. This unlocks new infrastructure like Multicast 📡 that neither could build on their own. 🚀
Read more: https://t.co/0uzuLojWHj TLDR: Blockcast × DAWN Partnership: Blockcast’s community-operated Content Delivery Network with its native multicast streaming protocol is integrated directly into DAWN’s Black Box, enabling massive global-scale livestreaming events over
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Introducing: DAWN’s Black Box Partner: @BlockcastNet Blockcasts's multicast Content Delivery Network unlocks the full capabilities of the Internet: massive 4K live events with ultra-low latency. Integrated directly into the Black Box, users can seamlessly contribute towards
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Big move-in day for Blockcast! 🚚📦Any guesses where we’re moving into? 👀
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Going forward, we’ll also roll out a public status dashboard so you can keep an eye 👁️ on what’s happening in real-time. Building in public, always. Appreciate the patience ❤️
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Unconstitutionality? The "Seditious Six" Undermining the Commander in Chief
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Bad news is: Our metrics collection service is still having a moment. We're on it though. Once the service is back up, your node will auto-reconnect. No action needed on your end 🙌. To make up for the downtime, we’re counting this entire down period as 100% uptime for
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Quick update👉: Over the past few days, we got a bunch of reports about the portal being down or nodes not connecting. TL;DR: Our site got absolutely slammed with way more traffic than we expected (which is awesome but also chaos 😅). Our team jumped in, scaled stuff up, tuned
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Blockcast Beacon Node Guide https://t.co/syc92YsnyP A lightweight CDN network on Solana, Raised $2.85M from Lattice Fund, Finality Cap. 6 months epoch with NFT rewards to top performing nodes.
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🌐 7/7 Starting TODAY.
docs.blockcast.network
Follow the steps below to set up and run your Blockcast BEACON Docker image:
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🎁 6/7 Top-performing nodes will receive special NFTs at the end of the epoch — your license key to serve actual traffic in the next phase, where rewards will start to shift to a traffic-based model.
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🏆 5/7 We're kicking off with a 6-month Proof of Resources Epoch, rewarding nodes based on their capacity to serve users.
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