Infura is to blame for MetaMask’s violation of the crypto spirit

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...

‘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 ...

ConsenSys Updates Privacy Policy for MetaMask, Infura After Community Pushback

ConsenSys has issued several updates and clarifications to how it stores user data after the crypto community pushed back against the firm’s privacy policy last month. The crypto industry was up...

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...

ConsenSys says it collects IP addresses of MetaMask users via Infura

Ethereum-focused software company ConsenSys collects IP addresses and wallet address information of those who access Ethereum wallet MetaMask via the blockchain infrastructure service Infura. ThatR...

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...

Metamask and Ethereum Dapps Services Down As Infura Faces Outage – crypto.news

Moments ago, reports emerged that Metamask and other Ethereum-based Dapps were inaccessible because of a service outage. The outage was caused by issues on APIs connecting Infura Network and Ethereum ...

MetaMask stops working as Infura suffers another service outage

Update 12:30 pm ET: Infura has announced that the problem has been solved with full functionality returning to its RPC services. Crypto web wallet MetaMask is currently not working for users due to a ...

MetaMask, Ethereum Apps Down as Infura Suffers Outage

In brief Issues with Ethereum infrastructure provider Infura are affecting a wide array of apps and services on the network. MetaMask and various other apps and services across Ethereum and scaling so...

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....

Infura Mistakenly Leaves Venezuelan Users Without Metamask Support – News Bitcoin News

Infura, the service provider of Metamask, one of the most used smart contracts-based wallets, blocked the access of Venezuelans to the Ethereum blockchain. Reports about this happening circulated on s...

Venezuelan Users Accidently Cut Off From MetaMask Wallet After Infura Goof Up

MetaMask and Infura came under fire from Crypto Twitter as it accidentally blocked Venezuelan users from accessing its service while attempting to comply with new sanctions announced by the United Sta...

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...

MetaMask And Infura Solved Connectivity Problem?

The crypto community heavily attacked Infura, the main Ethereum infrastructure provider, and MetaMask, the crypto browser wallet, for allegedly blocking access to users in Venezuela. Per the complaint...

“Decentralized” MetaMask And Infura Under Fire For Cutting Off Users In ‘Certain’ Sanctioned Regions ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp With Western nations levying sanctions against Russia for its full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, MetaMask Wallet and Infura users in some ju...

A look at MetaMask, Infura, OpenSea and the countries they do not serve

There have been multiple reports in the last day of users being unable to access crypto services, namely MetaMask, Infura and OpenSea, in certain jurisdictions, such as Iran and Venezuela. Many have p...

Ethereum’s MetaMask Wallet and Infura Cut Off Users in ‘Certain’ Sanctioned Countries

In brief MetaMask and Infura said they were blocking access to “certain jurisdictions.” Venezuelan users, Infura says, accidentally got blocked. On Thursday, two widely used ConsenSys soft...

Iranian, Venezuelan Users Abruptly Dropped From Major Crypto Platforms As Russian Sanctions Grow

Waving flag of Iran and Venezuela getty As pressure continues to mount for prominent crypto exchanges such as Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance to restrict access to their platforms for all Russian users,...