Proof of Stake and our next experiments in Web3

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Didn't know they had a gateway. at least there will be competition to infura till stateless clients allow running clients through browsers/wallets directly

> The short version though is that Cloudflare is going to participate in the research and development of the core infrastructure that helps keep Ethereum secure, fast, as well as energy efficient for everyone.

very interested to hear more on how cloudflare are participating in r&d (is it just running validators? or developing clients? or more technical things to do with scale)

also curious if cloudflare are planning to tap into the infura/alchemy market?

anyway cool to see!

My guess is they're looking at the node interconnect side similar to what Bloxroute is doing. This infrastructure will be extremely important as blockchains grow in size and speed; CDN-type utilities will be needed to broadcast transactions on the network, prevent DOS attacks, receive notifications from events on the network, and more.

The transition to Proof of Stake is going to happen any minute now!

... 10 years later ...

The transition to Proof of Stake is going to happen any minute now!

~half a trillion at stake so they are optimizing for safety. If you want to follow details on what needs to happen before the merge, you can go to https://wenmerge.com/

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