The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that knocked out major crypto and fintech platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, MetaMask and Venmo, has reignited debate over how decentralized Web3 really is.
While blockchains continued producing blocks uninterrupted, millions of users were unable to access wallets, exchanges and data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/what-are-dapps-everything-there-is-to-know-about-decentralized-applications”>decentralized applications (DApps) because their interfaces and data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/a-beginners-guide-to-blockchain-apis”>application programming interfaces (APIs) were hosted on centralized servers.
“Decentralization has succeeded at the ledger layer but not yet at the…
