diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index a3e98ed..c7bef64 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1242,6 +1242,7 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-NZyJarBfL7nWwIq+FDL6Zp/yHEhePMNnnJ0y3qfieCrmNvYct8uvtiV41UvlSe6apAfk0fY1FbWx+NwfmpvtTg==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "bin": {
         "acorn": "bin/acorn"
       },
@@ -2025,6 +2026,7 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-t5aPOpmtJcZcz5UJyY2GbvpDlsK5E8JqRqoKtfiKE3cNh437KIqfJr3A3AKf5k64NPx6d0G3dno6XDY05PqPtw==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "@eslint-community/eslint-utils": "^4.8.0",
         "@eslint-community/regexpp": "^4.12.1",
@@ -4650,6 +4652,7 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-j3lYzGC3P+B5Yfy/pfKNgVEg4+UtcIJcVRt2cDjIOmhLourAqPqf8P7acgxeiSgUB7E3p2P8/3gNIgDLpwzs4g==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "esbuild": "^0.21.3",
         "postcss": "^8.4.43",
@@ -4733,6 +4736,7 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-MSmPM9REYqDGBI8439mA4mWhV5sKmDlBKWIYbA3lRb2PTHACE0mgKwA8yQ2xq9vxDTuk4iPrECBAEW2aoFXY0Q==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "@vitest/expect": "2.1.9",
         "@vitest/mocker": "2.1.9",
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index a1274c4..8d77031 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ export const CONFIG = {
   USER_AGENT:
     "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
   MIN_VERSION: "0.23.0",
-  SERVERLESS_VERSION: "2025-10-20",
-  NODES: ["https://api.justyy.com", "https://api.steemit.com"],
+  SERVERLESS_VERSION: "2026-01-12",
+  NODES: ["https://api2.justyy.com", "https://api.steemit.com"],
   FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS: 5000,
 };
 
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ export const corsHeaders = {
   "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": "Content-Type",
 };
 
+export const DOWNSTREAM_HEADERS = Object.freeze({
+  "https://api.steemit.com": {
+    "X-Edge-Key": "static_secret_value_here",
+  },
+  "https://api2.justyy.com": {
+    "X-Edge-Key": "another_static_secret_value",
+  },
+});
+
 // === Utilities ===
 export const compareVersion = (v1, v2) => {
   const a = v1.split(".").map(Number);
@@ -75,13 +84,20 @@ export async function safeGetVersion(server, _fetchWithTimeout) {
   }
 }
 
-export async function forwardRequest(apiURL, body = null, method = "GET", _fetchWithTimeout) {
+export async function forwardRequest(
+  apiURL,
+  body = null,
+  method = "GET",
+  extraHeaders = {},
+  _fetchWithTimeout
+) {
   const fetcher = _fetchWithTimeout || fetchWithTimeout;
   const res = await fetcher(apiURL, {
     method,
     headers: {
       "Content-Type": "application/json",
       "User-Agent": CONFIG.USER_AGENT,
+      ...extraHeaders,
     },
     body: body ? JSON.stringify(body) : null,
   });
@@ -116,11 +132,18 @@ export default {
       });
       // === Forward the actual request ===
       let respObj;
+
+      if (!DOWNSTREAM_HEADERS[selected.server]) {
+        throw new Error(`No security headers defined for ${selected.server}`);
+      }
+
+      const nodeHeaders = DOWNSTREAM_HEADERS[selected.server];
+
       if (method === "POST") {
         const body = await request.json();
-        respObj = await forwardRequest(selected.server, body, "POST");
+        respObj = await forwardRequest(selected.server, body, "POST", nodeHeaders);
       } else {
-        respObj = await forwardRequest(selected.server);
+        respObj = await forwardRequest(selected.server, null, "GET", nodeHeaders);
       }
 
       // === Parse upstream response ===
diff --git a/tests/forwardRequest.test.js b/tests/forwardRequest.test.js
index 6ce5837..ffc7620 100644
--- a/tests/forwardRequest.test.js
+++ b/tests/forwardRequest.test.js
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ describe("forwardRequest()", () => {
       text: async () => '{"message":"ok"}',
     });
 
-    const result = await forwardRequest("https://example.com", null, "GET", mockFetch);
+    const result = await forwardRequest(
+      "https://example.com",
+      null,
+      "GET",
+      {}, // extraHeaders
+      mockFetch // fetchFn
+    );
 
     expect(mockFetch).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
     expect(mockFetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
@@ -27,22 +33,59 @@ describe("forwardRequest()", () => {
       text: async () => '{"success":true}',
     });
 
-    const result = await forwardRequest("https://example.com/api", body, "POST", mockFetch);
+    const result = await forwardRequest(
+      "https://example.com/api",
+      body,
+      "POST",
+      {}, // extraHeaders
+      mockFetch // fetchFn
+    );
 
     expect(mockFetch).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+
     const callOptions = mockFetch.mock.calls[0][1];
     expect(callOptions.method).toBe("POST");
     expect(callOptions.body).toBe(JSON.stringify(body));
+
     expect(result).toEqual({ statusCode: 201, text: '{"success":true}' });
   });
 
+  it("forwards extra headers to downstream", async () => {
+    const mockFetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({
+      ok: true,
+      status: 200,
+      text: async () => "{}",
+    });
+
+    const extraHeaders = {
+      "X-Edge-Key": "TEST_SECRET",
+    };
+
+    await forwardRequest("https://example.com", null, "GET", extraHeaders, mockFetch);
+
+    const callOptions = mockFetch.mock.calls[0][1];
+    expect(callOptions.headers["X-Edge-Key"]).toBe("TEST_SECRET");
+  });
+
   it("throws if fetchFn rejects", async () => {
     const mockFetch = vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error("Network Error"));
 
-    await expect(forwardRequest("https://example.com", null, "GET", mockFetch)).rejects.toThrow(
+    await expect(forwardRequest("https://example.com", null, "GET", {}, mockFetch)).rejects.toThrow(
       "Network Error"
     );
 
     expect(mockFetch).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
   });
+
+  it("handles non-JSON upstream response", async () => {
+    const mockFetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({
+      ok: true,
+      status: 200,
+      text: async () => "NOT_JSON",
+    });
+
+    const result = await forwardRequest("https://example.com", null, "GET", {}, mockFetch);
+
+    expect(result.text).toBe("NOT_JSON");
+  });
 });
diff --git a/tests/getVersion.test.js b/tests/getVersion.test.js
index c392a1d..ed32bca 100644
--- a/tests/getVersion.test.js
+++ b/tests/getVersion.test.js
@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ describe("getVersion() and safeGetVersion()", () => {
     expect(version).toEqual({ server: "https://example.com", version: "2.0.0" });
   });
 
+  it("safeGetVersion returns version if getVersion returns version that is too old", async () => {
+    mockFetch.mockResolvedValue({
+      ok: true,
+      json: async () => ({ result: { blockchain_version: "0.0.0" } }),
+    });
+
+    const version = safeGetVersion("https://example.com", mockFetch);
+    await expect(version).rejects.toThrow("Version too low: 0.0.0");
+  });
+
   it("safeGetVersion logs warning and rethrows if getVersion fails", async () => {
     mockFetch.mockResolvedValue({ ok: false, status: 500 });
 
diff --git a/vitest.config.js b/vitest.config.js
index cd9389f..2a152af 100644
--- a/vitest.config.js
+++ b/vitest.config.js
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ export default defineConfig({
             reporter: ['text', 'html', 'json', 'json-summary'],
             reportsDirectory: './coverage',
             thresholds: {
-                lines: 96,
-                statements: 96,
+                lines: 96.55,
+                statements: 96.55,
                 functions: 100,
-                branches: 88,
+                branches: 89.13,
             }, 
         },
     },