On April 22, there was an outage at Infura which resulted in customers having difficulties making transactions on different Web3 sites using MetaMask. Another additional outage has been experienced by ConsOpenSeaenSys’ Infura, a major Ethereum service provider.
Infura reported the event on Twitter, stating its staff was “all-hands-on-deck attempting to remedy the situation.” Also, MetaMask, a ConsenSys-built Web3 wallet that uses Infura, noted the problem, encouraging users to migrate to a different node if they were experiencing problems.
According to Etherscan, gas costs have also been reduced to an average of around 17 gwei(a small unit of the Ether (ETH) cryptocurrency on the Ethereum network).
According to data from Ethereum nodes, a number of other nodes, including AVADO, Moralis, and AnyBlock, were also hit.
Infura has already had disruptions, prompting some to criticise Ethereum’s dependence on the infrastructure. As many Ethereum aficionados pointed out during the downtime, running one’s own complete Ethereum node is one solution to Infura’s difficulties. Alternatively, you may use MetaMask’s settings to switch to another node, such as Alchemy.
Outages in centrally-managed infrastructure for what are ostensibly decentralised apps have prompted certain initiatives to seek the development of decentralised infrastructure solutions. Pocket Network, for example, acquires node infrastructure from several blockchains in order to enable users to access Web3 without depending on centralised services. Earlier this year, it raised $10 million to expand its operations.
