Cloudflare outage shows why crypto needs end-to-end decentralization

Many blockchains are decentralized, but their frontends and storage still rely on Web2 — a weakness exposed when the Cloudflare outage knocked several platforms offline, EthStorage said.

The crypto ecosystem has made strides in decentralizing blockchains, but the recent Cloudflare incident showed that true resilience requires decentralizing the frontend and storage layers as well, blockchain infrastructure platforms argue.

Decentralizing blockchains through consensus, a robust set of validators, and smart contracts is essential, but it represents only one side of the equation,” an EthStorage spokesperson explained to Cointelegraph on Wednesday

“True resilience requires rethinking the whole stack — not just the blockchain layer,” they said, highlighting that Remote Procedure Call, Domain Name System, API, indexing and storage should also be decentralized.

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