
10/1/2021 · Wesley Evans, Brian Batraski
What this post added
This post announces the private beta of Cloudflare's Ethereum and IPFS gateways. It highlights the challenges of current Web3 infrastructure, such as the complexity of running nodes and the lack of reliability in existing gateways. Cloudflare aims to address these issues by leveraging its global network to provide performant and resilient access to Web3 services, including caching IPFS content at the edge to reduce latency. The post also frames these gateways as foundational tools for building the metaverse and decentralized finance applications.