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The frontend outage that exposed Web3’s web dependencies

The frontend outage that exposed Web3’s web dependencies. Dated original source, with context and links.

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Original on X ↗

We love to say crypto is decentralised.

But today the illusion cracked again in real time.

#Cloudflare goes down and the entire front end of crypto collapses:

X down.
#Coingecko down.
@Dexscreener and @DEXToolsApp down.
Scanners dead.
Portfolio apps failing.
Even outage trackers dropping with them.
And plenty more in the dark.

All because the majority of #crypto front ends still lean on a single centralised web provider for access, routing and delivery.

One outage and the whole industry is blind, deaf and helpless.

This is again a single point of failure.

Long way to go.

Web3 is still far too much Web2.

– by $MASTR project

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A decentralised chain can still have a fragile front door →

The chain and its front door are different systems
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