{"id":91230,"date":"2025-11-20T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=91230"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:15:24","slug":"expert-highlights-web3s-fragility-exposed-by-cloudflare-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/expert-highlights-web3s-fragility-exposed-by-cloudflare-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Highlights Web3&#8217;s Fragility Exposed by Cloudflare Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent issues with Cloudflare have underscored the reliance of crypto projects on centralized internet infrastructure, according to a representative from EthStorage in a comment to <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-needs-end-to-end-decentralization\">Cointelegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, he noted, demonstrated the need for widespread decentralization\u2014from blockchain to user interfaces and data storage systems. Many projects depend on centralized <span data-descr=\"a distributed computer system for obtaining domain information\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DNS<\/span>, <span data-descr=\"application programming interface\" class=\"old_tooltip\">API<\/span>, and cloud storage, rendering the infrastructure vulnerable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cDecentralization of blockchains through consensus, a reliable set of validators, and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-smart-contract\"><em>smart contracts<\/em><\/a><em> is necessary, but it represents only one side of the equation. True resilience requires rethinking the entire stack, not just the distributed ledger layer,\u201d the expert noted.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This approach ensures that protocols cannot be disabled due to the failure of a single centralized component.<\/p>\n<p>The Cloudflare outage on November 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cloudflare-outage-disrupts-multiple-crypto-services\">affected<\/a> a range of crypto projects, including Blockchain.com, Coinbase, Ledger, BitMEX, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-ton\">Toncoin<\/a>, Arbiscan, and DefiLlama. At least 20% of all internet traffic was impacted.<\/p>\n<p>A comparable number of protocols experienced disruptions during the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/aws-outage-disrupts-coinbase-and-numerous-services\">October incident<\/a> with Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n<p>The team behind the blockchain platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/filecoin-fil-how-the-decentralised-storage-blockchain-works\">Filecoin<\/a> stated that the Cloudflare outage \u201cdemonstrated how much traffic flows through a handful of centralized networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Outages like yesterday show how much traffic flows through a handful of centralized networks. <\/p>\n<p>One issue in one region disrupts apps worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>Filecoin Onchain Cloud supports a model that spreads risk instead of concentrating it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pa8TytgNzb\">https:\/\/t.co\/pa8TytgNzb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Filecoin (@Filecoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Filecoin\/status\/1991086548054331414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cJust one issue in one region disrupted applications worldwide,\u201d the developers commented.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Filecoin\/status\/1991008533517856957\">emphasized<\/a> that reliance on a single cloud provider poses risks for any society built on principles of stable data access.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">watching my favorite decentralized censorship-resistant unstoppable crypto web3 app get eviscerated because &#8220;cloudflare went down&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XUEhUQZuLz\">pic.twitter.com\/XUEhUQZuLz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nader dabit (@dabit3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dabit3\/status\/1990791704744796402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cWatching my favorite decentralized, censorship-resistant, unstoppable crypto <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\"><em>Web3<\/em><\/a><em> app get eviscerated because \u2018Cloudflare went down\u2019,\u201d joked one user.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Web2 Habits<\/h2>\n<p>EthStorage noted that many crypto protocols rely on Web2 infrastructure for frontend and auxiliary layers \u201cout of convenience and habit.\u201d Many believe that decentralized alternatives are more expensive, harder to maintain, and less user-friendly. However, these assumptions are now \u201coutdated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Projects often push the task of decentralization to the back burner, focusing primarily on a successful launch and user acquisition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cSince infrastructure remains \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 for the end user, teams have no incentive to immediately address decentralization issues. As a result, it becomes a \u2018future task\u2019 rather than a fundamental architectural requirement,\u201d the EthStorage expert pointed out.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a solution, he proposed a gradual transition: full decentralization is possible only through phased steps, not through abrupt transformation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cThere is no need to decentralize all levels of the stack simultaneously. The key is to embed this development direction into the roadmap and gradually reduce dependence on centralized solutions in code execution, data storage, and access management as the project evolves,\u201d the specialist concluded.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in late August, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/buterin-proposes-new-measures-to-safeguard-ethereums-decentralization\">proposed<\/a> new ways to protect the decentralization of the ecosystem of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issues with Cloudflare have highlighted the dependence of crypto projects on centralized internet infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Cloudflare outage exposed crypto projects' reliance on centralized infrastructure.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,130,1138],"class_list":["post-91230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-decentralization","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"221","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Cloudflare outage exposed crypto projects' reliance on centralized infrastructure.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91230","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=91230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91232,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91230\/revisions\/91232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}