Announcing The Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways Private Beta: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse and Decentralized Finance for Everyone
Oct 1, 2021Wesley Evans, Brian Batraski

Summary
This post announces the private beta of Cloudflare's Ethereum and IPFS gateways, aiming to simplify Web3 development by providing managed infrastructure for running Ethereum and IPFS nodes. It highlights the challenges of existing Web3 gateways, such as limited network size, lack of resilience, and potential for outages, and positions Cloudflare's global network as a solution for improved speed, security, and reliability. The post introduces the concept of gateways in the context of Web3 and explains how Cloudflare's offering can benefit Dapp developers by providing caching and other value-added services.
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