Infura is developing a decentralized marketplace of data providers that will help to prevent Web3 app crashes in the future, according to a Feb. 6 Cointelegraph interview with Infura researcher Patrick McCorry.
McCorry stated that the new “Dfura” or “decentralized Infura” will help to ensure that blockchains remain decentralized by distributing data provider services among multiple providers in a marketplace. It will have “up to 10 providers initially” that will “work together to bootstrap the network and then […] Gradually iterate and get more players.” Some potential partners will meet at ETH Denver in late February or early March to discuss the project’s next steps.
The new project will not be a new blockchain. Instead, it will be a marketplace that matches consumers of blockchain data with data providers, as McCorry explained:
“There’ll be a marketplace where basically the new providers will sign up, they’ll have some stick in the system. They can place the resources that they have available, so I can say, I can satisfy these requests at this price. Users could come along and then buy those resources and then it’s like a matchmaking service of users.”
McCorry believes this will make the Web3 ecosystem more resilient by allowing users to rapidly switch to a new provider if the one they are currently using experiences an outage. He also stated that the new “Dfura” might be more censorship-resistant than the current service because providers will be spread out over many different geographical areas and operating under different jurisdictions.
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Infura is a suite of APIs and developer tools that is used by Web3 app developers to pull data from blockchains. It is used by many different Web3 apps, including Metamask, Gnosis, Aragon, and others. It is also used by many centralized exchanges to track deposit and withdrawal transactions.
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