Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway
Jun 19, 2019Jonathan Hoyland

Summary
This post announces Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, a new tool in the Distributed Web Gateway suite. It allows users to interact with the Ethereum network via a custom hostname, enabling the integration of smart contracts into websites. The post explains Ethereum and smart contracts with examples, highlighting their differences from traditional contracts and the challenges of immutability and bugs. It also introduces the EVM's distributed and deterministic nature and discusses the importance of kill switches and standardized patterns like ERC-20 and ERC-721, referencing CryptoKitties as an example.
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