Censorship resistance is the foundation of crypto, so for many cryptocurrency purists, the Nov. 23 announcement by ConsenSys, the New York-based company behind the leading Ethereum browser wallet, inf...
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‘Decentralized Infura’ may help prevent Ethereum app crashes: Interview
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 Patric...
ConsenSys zkEVM Private Beta Testnet accessible on Infura
It is the freshly introduced ConsenSys zkEVM private beta testnet, which happens to be akin to the EVM, and can, from this moment on, be fully accessed on Infura. However, this is only in the case of ...
Infura hits back, Nexo leaves US, SBF tries to avoid Congress
ConsenSys’ MetaMask has been criticized for changing its privacy policy to notify users that it will track IP addresses upon sending transactions. The move is seen as a threat to personal privacy, wit...
Alchemy joins ConsenSys and Infura in collecting user’s private information – crypto.news
Other RPC providers, such as Alchemy, Moralis, and QuickNode, have also stated that they collect personal information from users, such as IP addresses. This appears to be an unspoken rule among RPC pr...
Infura Announces the Development of Decentralized Infrastructure Network
Infura, a blockchain development tool, is looking forward to introducing a decentralized infrastructure protocol early next year to ease worries that its platform is too centralized to support the dec...
Infura to launch open source decentralized protocol for Web3 APIs
ConsenSys powered Web3 API provider Infura will look to deploy a decentralized protocol early next year in the interest of offering a more decentralized model for the management of Ethereum’s applicat...
Infura Announces Plans To Launch Decentralized Ecosystem
Leading Web3 API infrastructure provider Infura has announced that it will be launching a Decentralized Infrastructure Network sometime in the next year. The Decentralized Infrastructure Network woul...
Alchemy and Infura block access to Tornado Cash as Vitalik Buterin weighs in on debate
According to Twitter user @0xdev0, on Monday, Web3 development platform Alchemy and Infura.io blocked remote procedure call (RPC) requests to cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, preventing users from a...
Infura and Circle Cut Off Tornado Cash Following Sanctions
The U.S. government has been targeting crypto entities that they claim can enable bad actors to transact outside of the financial system, crypto exchange Tornado Cash was the latest addition. The Ethe...
Infura Censors Tornado Cash Smart Contract – Trustnodes
Infura, ethereum’s biggest node infrastructure provider, which handles some 10 billion requests a day, has for the first time blocked access to a smart contract. “Infura and Alchemy are now blocking R...
Infura, Alchemy Block Tornado Cash Following Treasury Ban
Share this article It comes less than a day after the Treasury Department blacklisted the Ethereum mixing tool. Ethereum Node Providers Blacklist Tornado Infura and Alchemy have joined a growing lis...
Why does Infura CEO think history repeats amidst the Yoga Labs‘ Otherdeed NFT mint chaos?
In a recent incident, Ethereum transaction demand saw congestion due to mining of Otherdeed NFTs of Yuga Labs Otherdeed NFT from Yuga Labs’ saw enough massive mint last week for the virtual land...
How Yuga Labs Could Have Avoided Otherdeed Ethereum NFT Mint Chaos: Infura Co-Founder
Last week, Yuga Labs’ massive Otherdeed NFT mint, for virtual land deeds in the Bored Ape Yacht Club metaverse realm Otherside, clogged the Ethereum mainnet with transaction demand. This triggered a g...
Ethereum Service Provider Infura Suffers Another Outage
Key Takeaways Infura suffered an outage today. The issue caused major disruption across the Ethereum ecosystem. Users can either run their own Ethereum node or switch nodes via MetaMask as a solution....
Ethereum’s Infura Cuts Off Users to Separatist Areas in Ukraine, Accidentally Blocks Venezuela
In brief Infura has blocked access to “certain jurisdictions.” Venezuelan users, Infura says, accidentally got blocked. It had a knock-on effect for users of the MetaMask wallet, which def...