{"id":66006,"date":"2022-08-18T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66006"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:05:20","slug":"messari-researchers-flag-centralisation-of-ethereum-and-solana-nodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/messari-researchers-flag-centralisation-of-ethereum-and-solana-nodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Messari researchers flag centralisation of Ethereum and Solana nodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three major cloud providers host 69% of Ethereum nodes located in data centres, while 72% of Solana&#8217;s 95% of nodes in data centres are hosted by the same infrastructure players as in the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Crypto needs to decentralize. <\/p>\n<p>Three major cloud providers are responsible for 69% of the 65% of <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethereum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Ethereum<\/a> nodes hosted in data centers. <\/p>\n<p>Of the estimated 95% of <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Solana<\/a> nodes hosted in data centers, 72% are hosted with the same cloud providers as <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethereum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Ethereum<\/a>. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/oK08c3G6Of\\\">pic.twitter.com\/oK08c3G6Of<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Messari (@MessariCrypto) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MessariCrypto\/status\/1560068983390318594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Ethereum, AWS leads this trio with 50%. Hetzner and OVH account for 15% and 4% respectively. In Solana, AWS accounts for only 4%, while Hetzner and OVH account for 42% and 26%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/ethernodes.org\/networkType\/Hosting\\\">Ethernodes<\/a> provides a more detailed picture of other cloud providers in the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency. In particular, Alibaba (3.9%) and Oracle (4.1%) trail only slightly behind OVH (4.2%). Other notable players include Google (3.5%), Digital Ocean (2%), netcup (1.9%) and Contabo (1.8%).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of value, in Solana, AWS, Hetzner and OVH account for 15%, 20% and 8% of the total value of staked assets.<\/p>\n<p>Experts note that the <span data-descr=\\\"remote procedure call\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">RPC<\/span> layer is the main candidate for censorship. To date, the development of decentralized alternatives Anker and Pocket has not meaningfully changed the situation, and, due to the specifics of how their mechanisms are governed, they have not solved the problem of a single point of failure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-conversation=\\\"none\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Do Ankr and Pocket Solve Web3\u2019s Node Centralization Problems? Check out this report from <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Old_Samster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Old_Samster<\/a>.<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/kKBoLQoXIf\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/kKBoLQoXIf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Messari (@MessariCrypto) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MessariCrypto\/status\/1560068986699599872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Infura and Alchemy<a href=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/circle-zamorozila-usdc-na-adresah-tornado-cash-iz-za-sanktsij-ssha\/\\\"> restricted RPC requests<\/a> to Tornado Cash after the service was added to the sanctions list by OFAC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three major cloud providers host 69% of Ethereum nodes located in data centres, while 72% of Solana&#8217;s 95% of nodes in data centres are hosted by the same infrastructure players as in the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,46,1468,1159],"class_list":["post-66006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-decentralization","tag-ethereum","tag-messari","tag-solana-sol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66006","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=66006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66008,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66006\/revisions\/66008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}