On October 20, an issue in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region sparked a chain reaction in the crypto industry. Coinbase reported degraded service, Infura and Alchemy issued AWS-related incident notes, and several wallets and rollups began to expire. None of these failures came from the blockchains themselves. The consensus was a good thing. The problem lay in … Continue reading If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps always fail when the cloud fails?