Pipe Firestarter Storage Launches, Making the Pipe Network a Full Stack Cloudflare Alternative on Solana

Pipe Firestarter Storage positions Pipe Network as the first decentralized full-stack content delivery network for Solana competitive with Cloudflare

NEW YORK, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Permissionless Labs, core contributors to Pipe Network, today announced the launch of Pipe Firestarter Storage. Designed to compete against web2 natives like Cloudflare, with its R2 & CDN offerings, Pipe Firestarter Storage transforms the Pipe Network into a vertically integrated, full-stack cloud platform.

David Rhodus, Founder of Permissionless Labs, a core contributor to the Pipe Network, commented on the news, "Storage from day one has been a critical element of Pipe Network's service as a decentralized CDN running a global network of over 280,000 points-of-presence (PoP) node operators. This would be impossible without origin support, which is already holding Solana's full data set—1 PB containing 350 million files—and cutting sync time by up to 30% through Solana Snapshots. By exposing developers to the capabilities of Pipe Firestarter Storage, users will experience this efficiency as they reach the last mile, whether that be somewhere as rural as Mauritius or as accessible as Miami."

Pipe Firestarter Storage to date has internally served to host Solana's full Proof of History (PoH) Archival data set as well as Solana Snapshots, which allow users to view periodic saved states of Solana's ledger. By going live as a public, permissionless layer, Pipe Network now operates akin to the infrastructure stacks of Cloudflare's R2 storage and CDN offerings by offering developers performance and price improvements that decentralization enables.

For developers, Pipe Firestarter Storage streamlines the inefficiencies that traditional CDNs and web3 projects face in coordinating with origin servers or external decentralized storage protocols. By eliminating reliance on third-parties providers, Pipe Firestarter Storage guarantees trust with data living and traveling solely within the network as well as bundled pricing to reduce operational costs. Additionally, Pipe Firestarter Storage optimizes delivery times in high-throughput, low-latency use cases such as decentralized apps (dApps), AI workloads, video delivery, and NFT/media asset serving.

Pipe Firestarter Storage is available to users starting today. The service is being offered in a tiered system costing 1 $PIPE token per gigabyte (GB) for the basic tier at token launch. Users can get started with the instructions in Pipe Network's documentation.

About Permissionless Labs:
Permissionless Labs is a team of core contributors to the Pipe Network that have years of experience developing Amazon Web Service's Elemental Cloud, with a proven ability to build disruptive, long-lasting solutions that can transform how end-users receive data. Built as the first decentralized CDN for Solana, Pipe Network leverages high-throughput blockchain technology and hyperlocalized nodes to deliver content quickly and securely on a massive scale by increasing bandwidth and reducing latency.

To learn more, please visit: https://pipe.network/

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SOURCE Permissionless Labs