Edge & Node

Edge and Node is the core development team behind The Graph Protocol and the builder of two enterprise-focused products: Amp, a multi-chain blockchain data platform with cryptographic provenance, and Ampersend, a policy and compliance control layer for autonomous AI agent transactions. Founded in 2021 by engineers who originally created The Graph and Graph Node, the company targets regulated financial institutions and AI agent operators who need structured, auditable, and verifiable onchain data at scale.

Edge and Node was incorporated in 2021, built on the engineering lineage of The Graph, the decentralized indexing protocol launched in 2018. The founding team includes the engineers responsible for Graph Node, the open-source indexing software that underpins The Graph query infrastructure. The company continues to serve as the primary core development team for The Graph protocol, coordinating its technical roadmap alongside its own commercial enterprise products. The company also operates The House, a physical community space in San Francisco Presidio positioned at the intersection of blockchain and AI development.

Amp is Edge and Node flagship commercial product, a blockchain-native database platform that transforms raw onchain activity into structured, queryable, and cryptographically verifiable datasets. The platform launched in beta in late 2025, with Amp Enterprise debuting at SmartCon and Amp Dev demonstrated at Devcon. Amp processes onchain events across multiple blockchains and exposes them through a unified SQL API. Each dataset carries full cryptographic provenance, meaning every data point traces to its onchain source with a verifiable proof rather than relying on a third-party assertion. This makes Amp suitable for regulated environments where data integrity must be independently auditable.

The platform is deployable on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid configurations, which matters to financial institutions with data residency and sovereignty requirements. Edge and Node reports throughput exceeding four million events per second. Developer interfaces include a TypeScript CLI, a Python client, and Rust streaming capabilities.

In April 2026, Amp added native Solana support, making Edge and Node one of the first enterprise blockchain data providers to cover Solana alongside Ethereum and other EVM chains. The Solana integration provides fintech firms, payment services, and AI application teams with structured real-time and historical Solana data without requiring custom ingestion pipelines. This extends Edge and Node reach into the Solana ecosystem and positions Amp as a multi-chain compliance data layer that covers Solana high-throughput transaction environment alongside its existing chain coverage.

Amp holds SOC 2 Type I certification, with Edge and Node pursuing SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. The company counts Coinbase, Google, Uniswap, Lido, and ENS among organizations that trust its infrastructure. Consulting engagements typically begin with fixed-scope Compliance Architecture Assessments that evaluate a client regulatory obligations and existing data infrastructure before recommending an integration path.

Ampersend is Edge and Node second major product, attracting significant attention through 2025 and into 2026. It is a management platform and compliance control layer for autonomous AI agents that conduct financial transactions on behalf of organizations. As AI agents become capable of spending money, subscribing to services, paying for compute, and earning revenue, enterprises face a compliance gap: agent activity is difficult to monitor, budget-control, and audit in real time. Ampersend inserts a policy and enforcement layer between agents and the financial networks they operate on, giving teams visibility and control that standard API-key-based integrations do not provide.

The platform operates across three core functions. Budget assignment lets operators set daily spending limits and merchant allowlists for each deployed agent. Policy enforcement means every transaction is evaluated against defined rules before funds transfer, blocking unauthorized charges before they settle. Dashboard monitoring lets teams approve high-value transactions, suspend individual agents instantly, and review full audit trails.

Ampersend integrates with the x402 payment protocol, an open-source stablecoin payment standard developed by Coinbase that enables instant HTTP-layer payments without API keys. It supports Google A2A agent-to-agent communication framework, Google Agent Development Kit, LangChain, and the Model Context Protocol, covering the major orchestration stacks AI teams are currently deploying. Real-time compliance screening runs through a TRM Labs integration, adding transaction-level risk scoring to agent spend. Self-custody options are available for organizations that require full control over private keys.

Ampersend was developed in collaboration with Coinbase, Google, and the Ethereum Foundation decentralized AI team. It launched publicly at Pragma Buenos Aires on November 20, 2025, following a closed beta period. Edge and Node also integrated x402-enabled services with The Graph data APIs, allowing AI agents to consume blockchain data without a traditional API key, letting agent wallets pay per request at the HTTP layer and eliminating credential management overhead.

Edge and Node does not issue its own token. Amp and Ampersend operate as commercial software services rather than token-governed protocols. The company relationship with The Graph Protocol involves GRT, The Graph native utility token, but GRT belongs to The Graph protocol governance rather than to Edge and Node as a company.

Amp carries SOC 2 Type I certification, and Edge and Node is pursuing SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, the compliance frameworks most relevant to regulated financial institutions. Ampersend incorporates TRM Labs for real-time transaction risk screening. The company positions cryptographic data provenance as a core security property, arguing that institutional adoption requires proof of data integrity rather than trust in a data provider representations.

Edge and Node April 2026 Solana integration brings its institutional data infrastructure to Solana for the first time. For Solana-native protocols, fintech builders, and enterprises operating on the network, Amp provides structured access to Solana onchain history and real-time event stream through a SQL interface with cryptographic verifiability. This addresses a longstanding gap in Solana enterprise tooling, where high throughput and low latency have made reliable, audit-ready data indexing technically demanding to build in-house. Ampersend multi-chain design means AI agents transacting on Solana operate under the same compliance controls as those on Ethereum.

Edge and Node occupies a distinctive position: as the core developer of The Graph Protocol, it has deep credibility in onchain data infrastructure, and it is channeling that expertise into commercial products for institutions and AI operators that need verifiable, compliant blockchain data at enterprise scale. With Amp Solana integration live and Ampersend advancing beyond beta into broader deployment, Edge and Node is building the data and compliance rails for both traditional finance move into blockchain and the emerging autonomous agent economy.