
Consensys collabora con Microsoft per decentralizzare Infura
- Infura funge da gateway per Ethereum per la maggior parte delle piattaforme DeFi.
- Infura ha subito un'interruzione della rete nel 2020 che ha suscitato preoccupazioni sul fatto che fosse un unico punto di fallimento per la maggior parte delle piattaforme DeFi e degli scambi centralizzati.
La società di software Blockchain Consensys ha collaborato con Microsoft, Tencent e altri sedici titani Web2 per decentralizzare la rete Infura, che funge da gateway principale per Ethereum per la maggior parte delle piattaforme DeFi (finanza decentralizzata).
Le collaborazioni mirano a rafforzare la decentralizzazione della rete Infura, essenziale per evitare interruzioni dei servizi Web3 che dipendono da essa, come il fornitore di portafogli MetaMask.
Infura is no doubt one of the most widely used platforms for developers to connect apps to blockchains. Infura supports some of the biggest apps on Ethereum and other blockchains and has developed into a key component of the blockchain ecosystem. However, Infura’s perceived centralization was always a source of concern. Many saw Infura as a single point of failure for the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Infura’s decentralization concerns first emerged in November 2020, when it experienced a temporary outage that affected a number of DeFi progetti e scambi centralizzati.
Over a year ago, Infura announced plans to decentralize some aspects of its services and improve its user experience. Consensys senior product manager Andrew Breslin says the partnership will help Infura “decentralize every layer of the blockchain infrastructure stack.”
The new “Decentralized Infura Network (DIN)” will launch in Q4 and is intended to address Infrua’s centralization issue. Commenting on the partnership, Breslin said:
The cost and complexity involved with running a service like Infura were kind of limiting in terms of who we could partner with to serve this traffic. Now there’s this huge, flourishing ecosystem of Web3 infrastructure providers that can provide a service that’s complimentary to Infura.
Breslin ha rivelato che una delle prime abilità significative fornite dal DIN is “failover support.” This feature will enable the redirection of traffic to one or more DIN partners during an outage, resulting in longer-term uptime rates.
Thomas Hay, the lead product manager for Infura, explained the new feature in a statement. He noted that if Infura experiences “conditions where the service is suffering for the end user, we have routing in place in failover. Also, if Infura’s blockchain nodes go offline, Hay explained that “requests are then able to move to a partner who has been vetted through a series of load and quality assurance tests.”
Furthermore, Breslin noted that once the DIN is launched, decentralized apps (DApps) won’t have to rely on a single service provider that is based in a single location, making Ethereum more censorship-resistant and dependable.
Commenting on the selected partners, Breslin noted that Infura wanted other dependable internet infrastructure providers to join the DIN, adding that the present lineup was not a closed set. Breslin described this phase of partnership with the selected companies as the DIN’s “federated phase,” a brief test run during which the network stays centralized.
The grand plan of the DIN, according to Breslin, is for it to be controlled as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). This system of governance ensures that each participant has a democratically balanced influence in the network’s direction.