{"id":29875,"date":"2020-10-09T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29875"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:22:47","slug":"anthony-pompliano-amazon-could-shut-down-many-defi-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/anthony-pompliano-amazon-could-shut-down-many-defi-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Pompliano: Amazon could shut down many DeFi apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of cloud services calls into question the decentralisation of the Ethereum network and threatens the operation of DeFi apps, according to Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, the biggest problem in this context is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The owner of the company Jeff Bezos could, if he wished, halt the service and \u201cdisconnect most DeFi apps based on Ethereum.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jeff Bezos could shut down most of these Ethereum-based \u201cDeFi\u201d apps by simply shutting off AWS.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not decentralized if you just spin up servers with Uncle Jeff!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pomp \ud83c\udf2a (@APompliano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APompliano\/status\/1313943695016767488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not decentralized if you\u2019re running servers with Uncle Jeff,\u201d Pompliano said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The founder of the Defiant project Camila Russo acknowledged that Ethereum nodes could indeed be more decentralised. But she doubted the real threat, because not all nodes are hosted by AWS.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ethereum nodes could definitely be more decentralized. Still, facts don\u2019t support this argument:<\/p>\n<p>Hosting = 70% of eth nodes<\/p>\n<p>*But not all nodes are hosted by the same service*<\/p>\n<p>Amazon = ~37% of hosted nodes<\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lJpmAlTzaH\">https:\/\/t.co\/lJpmAlTzaH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Camila Russo (@CamiRusso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CamiRusso\/status\/1313960805138944000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is supported by data from the Ethernodes portal: cloud services host 69.5% of nodes, of which only 36.5% are on Amazon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_112714\" style=\"width: 759px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112714\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-325.png\" alt=\"Anthony Pompliano: Amazon could shut down many DeFi apps\" width=\"749\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-325.png 749w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-325-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-112714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ethernodes.org\/networkType\/Hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethernodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One cryptocurrency investor backed Pompliano. He said that many people refuse to believe such claims because they \u201cinvest significant sums in DeFi scams.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Seeing Pomp get lots of resistance from his tweet, but he\u2019s 100% right.<\/p>\n<p>Many refuse to accept it because they\u2019re likely overly invested into DeFi scams right now.<\/p>\n<p>DeFi = Delusional Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2zhCGcc5GX\">https:\/\/t.co\/2zhCGcc5GX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CryptoWhale (@CryptoWhale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoWhale\/status\/1313968730234327041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In late August, 13% of nodes <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/unknown-bug-in-ethereum-clients-caused-synchronization-errors-for-13-of-nodes\">stopped<\/a> syncing with the Ethereum network due to a bug in Parity-Ethereum and OpenEthereum versions 2.7 and above. Operators were advised to roll back to an older version or switch to a different client.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of cloud services calls into question the decentralisation of the Ethereum network and threatens DeFi app operation, according to Morgan Creek Digital co\u2011founder Anthony Pompliano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,1509,1093,1138],"class_list":["post-29875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-amazon","tag-anthony-pompliano","tag-defi","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29877,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29875\/revisions\/29877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}