Edge Video Sneak Peak

If you’re excited about the next generation of content media. If you love crypto, Web3 and AI. And if you’re a creator — individual or broadcaster — who wants to enhance and upgrade your stream, you want to know all about Edge Video, the ultimate upgrade to any user experience.

Edge Video is at the cutting edge of media tech, building pioneering on-chain outreach and utilizing industry-leading AI tech to make all content come alive. Seamlessly integrating with streamer output through a QR code, Edge Video delivers more for viewers and more for those who care about rewarding viewers.

So, what exactly is Edge? How does the technology work? How do viewers and creators benefit? What incredible partners have we acquired on our journey? Most importantly, how can you, the user, take a stake in the ultimate crypto-economic content layer for digital media that’s powered by AI?

Read on to discover everything you need to know about Edge Video and how anyone can be a part of changing the broadcast landscape forever.

What is Edge and How Does it Work?

Edge is a media-tech platform that, when enabled through any standard HLSS stream, overlays a QR code on the content. Viewers can access the Edge ecosystem by scanning a QR code on their second device like a mobile phone.

In Edge, viewers can answer quizzes, play games, and rank on leaderboards, all related to a creator’s stream. Viewers who play games and participate in quizzes earn Virtual Points that can be used to claim rewards from Edge’s affiliate business partner network. The content for these games and quizzes is produced by Edge Video AI — a real-time scanning AI optimized to react to and deliver gamified interaction based on the content on-screen.

One of the most forward-thinking features of Edge Video is its integration with eCommerce. AI identifies products in real-time, enabling viewers to purchase what they see on screen.

The $FAST Token

Virtual Points can also be exchanged for $FAST, a token powered by NEAR Protocol that is the underlying economic unit for the Edge media network. Just like Virtual Points, $FAST can be spent in the ecosystem, but also can be staked, locked in liquidity pools, used to access exclusive partner airdrops & discounts, in-stream benefits, and many other ever-expanding Web3 utilities. The $FAST TGE event is coming soon, so be ready.

$FAST holders earn recursive value and are incentivised to continue interaction within Edge ecosystem. With the growing outreach of the FAST channels, this approach based on interactivity and reward may become a default media experience for the next generation.

Edge’s Mission

Edge’s token is named $FAST because of its mission to build a crypto gateway for all Free Ad-Support TV (FAST) channels. FAST channels have historically suffered from abysmal revenue per user and in the crowded content landscape sustaining is becoming ever more challenging. Developing features like gamified interaction is one way to go for FAST channels, but it’s expensive and outside of their usual technology remit.

Edge Video’s seamless QR integration gives the entire FAST broadcast community of creators an instant way to enhance and upgrade their streams using the Edge Video AI along with gamification and enhanced shopping features, resulting in additional revenue and other benefits.

Edge aims to build a mutually beneficial network of engaged audiences and a discovery portal for the FAST content publishers, where everyone can benefit from the added revenue that Edge’s second-screen ecosystem offers. Edge is achieving it through affiliate income, enhanced interaction, and devoted viewers who invested in Edge.

Edge’s competitive advantage is the inclusion of the competition. Edge can be integrated with any existing output or content to make it better. It’s always about the added value. Edge’s AI works in harmony with existing FAST content, opening new opportunities, and ultimate goal to become a default extra to any media stream, bringing the engaged community with it.

eCommerce: Shopping and AI

Edge Video AI scans content to provide perfect product recommendations based on what’s happening on stream. For example, if you’re watching a stream with Rihanna wearing an awesome piece of Fendi clothing, this product or a similar one will be shown in shopping recommendations.

The NeuroCommerce engine also picks up context clues based on audio, speech and other factors to make highly relevant and personalized product recommendations. For example, if you’re watching a lot of content about gold and silver, our platform might recommend coin holders or if your favorite streamer is playing Horizon: Forbidden West, the AI will source deals for the game and display them. These are just a few of the examples of what’s possible with Edge.

Edge’s extensive affiliate networks are tightly integrated and include partners like AliExpress.com so the AI is trained on the most vast product sets and their correlation to on-screen data possible. Proprietary developed AI is the backbone of Edge’s tech, offering and powers Edge-enabled streams.

Edge’s Partners

To build a powerful second-layer network to content media, Edge needs great partners — both in the FAST community and in the crypto space, to roll out our proprietary AI tech and give all viewers a chance to use Edge. We plan to roll Edge out until every one of the 24,000+ FAST channels is integrated. Here are some of the core partners we’ve built in the FAST community.

• Kick.com
• WPT
• BoxingTV
• FTF Sports

Additionally, our partnerships with eCommerce outlets allow us to bring a wide range of choice products to our integrated shopping experience. Some of these include:

• Amazon
• Lidl Netherlands
• Acer
• NordVPN

Our strategic partnerships are equally key to the future and development of Edge Video.

By partnering with Neurochain AI, we’re excited to work closely with their developers and their approach to full-stack decentralization, including AI models.

NEAR Foundation’s investment also confirms the quality of the idea and the team. Near is supporting crypto developers in building tech stacks that scale horizontally and infinitely across the multi-chain and build new, open digital economies. Edge’s desire to expand Web3 gateway to every content media platform in the world marries perfectly with Near’s vision of a world of digital community ownership and user-centered experiences that are rewarding, not exploitative.

Speaking about rewards.

Edge Rewards System

Edge will use revenue to buyback $FAST tokens to resupply the rewards pool while the network is in the growth stage, returning early capital growth into the ecosystem as we acquire more partner streams and more content creators enable Edge. 15% of the available $FAST supply is dedicated to providing rewards for interaction with viewers, with that pool topped up continuously.

The Story Has Just Begun

Edge Video has built the world’s easiest access and most heavily incentivised interactivity module for video content. Powered by unique dual-purpose AI, Edge Video offers the next level of interactivity and content consumption experience, turning users from passive viewers into active participants, whilst delivering rewards.

Stay tuned for more information on how to get $FAST at our TGE, and the latest utility rollouts and partnership announcements that are already in the works.