XE and $EDGE, in one place.
A network built for AI agents and machines that pay each other. $EDGE claims XE 1:1 at genesis. Live valuation, the claim, supply, team and risks below.
Valuation, live
Market caps from CoinGecko, refreshed every 5 minutes.
| Network | Market cap | × $EDGE |
|---|---|---|
| $EDGE becomes XE at 1:1 | $4.6M | 1× |
| io.net GPU compute | $62M | 13× |
| peaq machine economy | $96M | 21× |
| Aethir GPU cloud | $109M | 24× |
| Akash compute market | $206M | 45× |
| Kite AI agent payments | $281M | 62× |
| Fetch.ai AI agents | $435M | 94× |
Illustrative, not a forecast. At 1:1, $EDGE's market cap is the starting value of the claimed XE supply. Raw data: api/prices.
Why XE
Agents and machines need to pay per call, a fraction of a cent at a time. Cards can't, and most chains charge more than that in fees.
How it works
- Every account runs its own chain, so payments never wait in a shared queue
- No gas fees. A small proof of work per block keeps spam out
- Designed to settle in under a second
What's live
- Public testnet: run a node, send, receive (test.network)
- Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor connect to XE (in testing)
- Edge Network has billed enterprise compute customers for 5+ years. Part of that demand moves onto XE
Supply
Token design as of September 2026. Final values publish with the genesis configuration.
At genesis
All from claimed $EDGE. No team, VC, advisor or presale tokens. Unclaimed XE is burned after 3 months.
After launch
- New XE only for paid work, capped at 2% of supply a month
- 50% of every dollar customers pay buys XE and burns it (40% later). A lower price burns more per dollar
- Modelled net growth 3–6% a year while usage ramps. At scale the burn overtakes new supply
Team
Founded Airlock, sold to Publicis Groupe in 2011. Founded DADI, now Edge, and has run the build since 2017.
Co-founder and managing director of Airlock through the Publicis sale.
CTO of Edge since 2017. Public open-source work since 2012.
The claim
$EDGE sent to the claim contract is burned and XE is issued 1:1. Three months to claim, then the rest is burned. The date, steps and claim address come only through official XE channels. Nobody from XE will message you first or ask for your keys.
Ask your AI
Paste this into Claude, ChatGPT or Codex. It reads the facts file and the live prices, then walks you through it.
The 2-page brief
Phone-sized pages to forward. Prices on them are from the day they were made; this page is always live.
