Cesium seems to do some blending around the edges. Is there any way to not have the blending such the the image, in this case the Cesium logo, is just rendered on top of the existing layer?
The image is just rendered on top of the existing layer as is. The image itself is what has the blending (as you can see in the original source image).
An additional observation is that the edge of the image itself is hard, it's the areas within the image where occupied pixels meet the transparent ones that there is blending.