Ethereum Co-founder Pitches Dapps As Solution To 2025 Cloudflare...
Outages with Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services caused brief massive outages in 2025, affecting several cryptocurrency platforms.
Vitalik Buterin, one of the co-founders of the Ethereum blockchain, said decentralization applications (DApps) could mitigate failures in internet infrastructure, such as when internet services provider Cloudflare experienced a massive outage in November.
In a Thursday X post, Buterin said Ethereum needed to do more to achieve its mission of “[building] the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.” According to the co-founder, that started with DApps that “run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference” and are usable at scale on the blockchain.
The Cloudflare outage, which resulted in about 20% of the platform’s websites going down in November, was caused by a software failure. According to a post-mortem report from the company, a “feature file” used by its bot management system as a response to cyberattacks grew beyond its normal limit.
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Because many crypto platforms were affected by the same outage, as well as one caused by Amazon Web Services in October, many questioned the reliability of centralized internet infrastructure. Websites including Coinbase, Blockchain.com, BitMEX and Ledger went offline.
“Decentralization erodes not through capture, but through convenience,” said Buterin and Ethereum Foundation researchers Yoav Weiss and Marissa Posner in a manifesto released on Nov. 11. “It drifts — automatically, continually — toward dependence on trust.”
The Ethereum co-founder has been a regular figure on socials, offering takes on the crypto industry and technology through his blog and other media. In early December, he argued that the crypto market needed a “good trustless onchain gas futures market,” giving users certainty over blockchain transaction fees.
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Source: CoinTelegraph
