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https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/decentralizing-infura/
Infura has provided a centralized API service to help grow the Ethereum and Web3 ecosystem since we launched in 2016. In 2023 we will be launching Decentralized Infura. This talk will go over the details of the decentralized protocol and the transition to it. We will also discuss why this is necessary at this point in the growth of the ecosystem and the emergence of a multi-chain future.
Speaker(s): E.G. Galano, Tim Myers
Skill level: Beginner
Track: Developer Infrastructure
Keywords: api,infura,infrastructure
Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum
Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/
Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/
Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers.
Devcon 6 was held in Bogotá, Colombia on Oct 11 - 14, 2022.
Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation, with the support of our sponsors. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
A
A
O
I'm,
one
of
the
co-founders
in
the
general
manager
for
infuri
and
I'm
joined
today
with
my
colleague,
Tim
Myers,
one
of
our
lead
engineers
at
inferior,
so
you've
seen
the
title
of
the
talk
you
might
have
caught
our
announcement
at
East
Berlin
a
month
ago,
we're
here
to
talk
about
decentralizing
inferior,
it's
something
that's
been
on
the
Twitter
waves
and
crypto
Twitter
for
years,
something
that
people
ask
us
about
all
the
time
like
is
inferior,
centralized.
How
are
you
going
to
decentralize?
A
Are
you
going
to
decentralize?
This
is
this?
Is
the
talk
where
we
answer
quite
a
few
of
those
questions
for
you,
we
gave
you
a
preview
at
eath
Berlin.
If
you're
able
to
see
the
recording
from
that
talk,
this
is
going
to
go
more
into
the
details
of
the.
Why,
behind
it,
the
why
now,
what
now
and
especially
the
technical
details
that
go
into
decentralizing
inferior,
so
inferior
was
launched
in
2016,
with
the
sole
purpose
of
providing
utility
for
ethereum
and
ipfs
Developers.
A
It
was
four
of
us
from
the
inferior
team
we
flew
to
Devcon.
At
the
time
we
were
a
small
team
within
the
larger
consensus
organization,
focused
on
trying
to
build
something
that
would
be
useful,
and
so
we
all
went
to
this
conference
and
we
were
saying
that
we
were
going
to
get
up
on
that
stage
and
say:
there's
a
lot
of
innovation.
That's
happening
in
this
space.
A
We've
created
this
new
service
called
inferior,
and
it's
a
traditional
SAS
service
that
you
can
use
to
connect
to
blockchains,
and
we
had
a
lot
of
apprehension
about
that
like
what
would
the
reception
to
that
be
because
at
the
time
we
were
all
running
our
own
infrastructure,
we
were
all
running
our
own
nodes.
There
was
very
much
a
lot
of
interest
in
like
clients,
verifiability
of
data,
and
we
were
saying
don't
run
your
own
infrastructure,
trust
us
to
run
your
infrastructure,
and
so
the
the
reception
at
Devcon
was
a
little
mixed.
A
A
That
might
be
the
case,
but
we're
going
to
try
it
like
we're
just
here
to
try
to
provide
something
useful
and
maybe
that
will
be
useful
and
maybe
it
won't
be,
and
so
we
went
up
on
stage
and
we
we
announced
that
we
were
going
to
be
doing
this
and
then
during
Defcon
2.
The
ethereum
network
was
subjected
to
the
denial
of
service
attacks
that
almost
brought
down
the
network
and
some
of
the
many
of
the
heroes
that
helped
save
the
network
from
that
are
either
in
this
room
or
definitely
at
this
conference.
A
The
people
that
helped
mitigate
the
attacks
on
the
network
and
inferior's
role
in
that
at
the
time
was
trying
to
keep
our
endpoint
up.
That
was
already
being
used
to
sort
of
metamask.
Mother
mask
had
launched
two
three
months
beforehand
and
thousands
of
users
were
already
using
metamask
every
day
to
send
ether
do
some
basic
interactions
with
some
of
like
the
early
maker
contracts
that
were
out
there.
A
Some
of
the
early
other
experiments
that
were
out
there
around
that
2016
time
and
we
said
well,
we
can't
do
anything
actively
to
fix
that
client
we're
not
the
protocol
core
developers.
The
core
developers
are
solving
that
problem,
but
there
was
already
this
issue
where
we
were
in
Shanghai
the
Wi-Fi.
There
was
awful
even
worse
than
at
most
conferences
and
nobody
was
able
to
like
get
access
to
their
infrastructure
to
update
their
clients.
A
A
So
that's
how
we
thought
of
ourselves
as
inferior
started
to
centralize
and
we'll
see
when
we
get
more
decentralized
and
we're
going
to
have
a
a
solution
for
how
we
do
that,
and
the
reason
is
because
we
had
to
create
quite
a
bit
of
proprietary
infrastructure
to
serve
the
traffic
that
we've
done
over
the
last
six
seven
years.
What
we
run
today
as
inferior
is
far
more
complex
than
what
we
ran
with
in
2016..
A
This
didn't
scale
exactly
right
and
every
time
it
didn't
scale
exactly
right.
We
improved
our
system
right,
and
so
it
forced
us
to
innovate.
Every
single
time
take
data
like
back.
In
the
day
we
used
to
send
requests
directly
to
ethereum
nodes,
and
there
was
really
no
virtualization
as
we
call
it
custom
services
that
would
handle
the
traffic
because
we
didn't
ever
want
to
be
in
a
position
of
providing
the
wrong
data
to
you,
because
that
would
be
really
bad
that'd,
be
the
end
of
our
service.
A
A
We
said
that
we
are
going
to
set
out
to
prove
that
web
3
could
be
served
by
SAS,
we're
going
to
say
that
we're
going
to
run
a
SAS
service
and
that's
going
to
be
beneficial
for
the
ecosystem
and
it's
going
to
bring
more
developers
in
it's
going
to
bring
in
more
investor
interest.
A
lot
of
activity
is
going
to
come
into
this
space
because
people
will
see.
Oh
I
can
actually
make
a
living
and
support
myself
running
a
business
in
web
3
when
at
the
time
it
wasn't
very
clear.
A
Which
models
would
work,
and
so
now
inferior
is
not
the
only
game
in
town
There's,
dozens
like
they
can't
even
fit
on
this
screen
anymore,
and
we
feel
like
we've
accomplished
that
goal.
We've
proved
that
SAS
Works
in
web
3,
and
so
now
we
want
to
prove
that
web
3
models
can
be
used
to
serve
SAS
and
that's
what
we
took
as
our
approach
to
decentralizing
inferior
and
that's
where
we
are
today
and
the
first
step
to
that
is
open
collaboration
and
transparency.
A
We
don't
have
the
entire
solution
in
a
white
paper
form
that
we're
going
to
upload
to
ipfs
and
you're
all
going
to
read
it
right
now,
like
we're
still
in
that
design
phase,
but
we've
already
started
collaborating
with
other
people
in
the
ecosystem.
On
that
design,
we've
been
working
on
it
for
a
year
and
a
half.
This
is
where
we
want
to
start
showing
you
more
of
the
technical
details
of
what
goes
into
that.
What
does
decentralizing
inferior
look
like
it?
Could
people
have
said?
A
Oh,
are
you
just
going
to
create
a
dow
so
that
we
can
like
have
some
governance
over?
What
inferior
does?
Is
that
good
enough,
or
is
it
some
sort
of
utility
function
that
we're
going
to
try
to
have
as
part
of
this
network?
What
are
the
incentives
of
participating?
How
do
we
incentivize
the
right
behaviors
and
what
people
were
especially
asking
was,
does
participating
in
this
decentralized
infrastructure.
A
Network
mean,
like
inferior,
still
owns
and
controls
everything,
and
that's
the
biggest
question
that
we
got
in
the
last
month
since
we
announced
it
East,
Berlin
and
the
answer
to
that.
No
it
that's
that
defeats.
The
purpose
of
what
we're
seeing
with
a
decentralized
infrastructure,
Network,
that's
supposed
to
be
a
permissionless
network,
so
inferior
is
going
to
just
be
a
partner
in
a
decentralized
permissionless
network,
one
of
an
equal
amount
of
or
one
of
equals
in
operators.
B
A
B
C
C
All
of
those
things
that
you
typically
do
with
the
centralized
provider
and
they'll
provide
this
service
in
return
for
a
reward
which
is
what's
going
to
motivate
them
to
want
to
do
this.
The
next
participant
we're
calling
the
network
status
Watchers.
This
party
will
provide
performance
and
capability
reports
of
the
infrastructure
providers,
so
they'll
be
there
to
kind
of
check
and
keep
them
honest.
You
know:
they'll
they'll,
see
that
they're
keeping
up
with
the
head
of
the
chain
they'll
check
that
they're.
C
You
know
responding
quickly,
that
their
answers
are
accurate,
all
the
things
that
you
would
hope
that
an
API
does,
and
finally,
we
have
this
concept
of
an
Ingress
node.
They
kind
of
act
as
an
intermediary.
They
will
sell
the
actual
network
resources
to
users
after
purchasing
them
from
the
infrastructure
providers
and
later
I'll
also
show
how
they're
not
entirely
necessary,
but
they
can
provide
a
ux
option.
That
I
think
is
useful,
so
more
detail
on
the
infrastructure
providers.
C
C
Of
course,
you'll
also
see
other
named
providers
that
you're
used
to
seeing
that
we
hope
will
collaborate
with
us
and
you
might
also
have
Anonymous
providers,
so
you
never
really
know
who
they
are,
but
through
the
mechanisms
of
the
network,
you
can
come
to
trust
that
they
are
going
to
provide
a
good
service.
So
these
infrastructure
providers
they
commit
to
providing
capacity
on
the
network,
they'll
specify
the
protocols
and
capabilities
that
they
support.
C
So
we
envision
this
network
working
for
ethereum,
but
we
also
Envision
Envision
it
supporting
all
of
the
sort
of
new
networks
that
inferior
has
added
over
the
last
couple
of
years.
The
layer
twos
new
layer
ones,
but
not
every
infrastructure
provider
is
going
to
want
to
serve
all
of
those.
So
they
can
pick
and
choose
and
specify
what
they
want
to
support.
They'll
also
say
the
capabilities,
so
you
might
be
used
to
having
you
know,
archive
nodes
for
ethereum,
and
then
sometimes
you
need
that.
C
Sometimes
you
don't
and
running
archive
traffic
is
a
lot
harder,
so
some
providers
might
do
that.
Some
might
not
they'll
also
give
an
idea
of
the
amount
of
throughput
that
they're
capable
of
specifying,
and
this
may
take
a
couple
different
shapes,
but
you
know
you
could
think
of
it
as
like:
a
thousand
requests
per
minute
when
someone
registers
as
a
provider
they're
saying
I,
can
support
this
much
and
so
that
people
can
then
buy
that
back
and,
of
course,
they'll
be
compensated
for
for
doing
this.
C
I
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
it
actually
looks
to
be
a
node
provider,
and
so
this
is
a
diagram
of
what
inferior
does
and
what
other
big
centralized
providers
do
it's
complicated.
As
EG
said,
it's
become
much
more
complicated
since
2016.
to
start.
Of
course
you
have
your
blockchain
nodes.
These
are
the
the
ones
that
are
produced
by
the
client
teams
that
interact
with
the
peer-to-peer
Network
that
sync
blocks
that
verify
it,
but
there's
a
lot
of
supporting
infrastructure
around
that.
So
first
we
have
a
snapshot
system.
C
If
you've
ever
tried
to
sync
a
node
you'll
know
that
it
takes
a
very
long
time,
so
we
typically
take
the
disk
of
a
blockchain
node,
save
it
to
our
own
private,
Secure
Storage,
and
then,
when
we
need
a
horizontally
scale
out
those
nodes.
We
use
that
as
a
seed
for
new
blockchain
nodes,
so
it's
downloaded
onto
a
server
and
then
sync
from
there,
which
makes
it
much
faster.
You
also
have
various
indexers
and
accelerators.
C
So
if
you've
ever
tried
to
do
like
a
big
wide,
get
logs
query
for
events
from
a
blockchain,
node
you'll
know
it's
really
slow.
So
we
have
special
indexers
to
speed
that
up
also
for
things
like
nfts
in
front
of
that
you
have
a
load
balancer.
That
makes
the
decision
of
what
accelerators
to
send
your
request
to
maybe
for
just
sending
a
transaction.
It
goes
directly
to
the
nodes
and
in
front
of
all
of
that,
we
often
have
a
consistency
system
that
helps
make
sure
that
users
see
a
canonical
view
of
the
chain.
C
So
this
helps
with
reorgs
to
make
those
a
little
less
painful
for
the
user
and
also
make
sure
that
if
they
like
query
a
block,
it
doesn't
change
in
between
requests,
and
this
is
something
that
is
altogether
quite
complicated.
There's
been
several
projects
out
in
open
source
land
that
have
attempted
to
help
with
this
I
think
most
of
them
are.
You
know
more
on
just
running
the
blockchain
nodes
running
several
of
those,
but
to
really
provide
good
service.
C
You
need
a
lot
more
than
that
and
we
will
be
releasing
our
own
open
source
infrastructure
kit
that
node
providers
can
use
to
help
them
participate
in
this
network.
Of
course,
there's
also
going
to
be
parties
that
already
know
what
they're
doing
and
we'll
probably
just
run
their
own
flavor
of
infrastructure
to
provide
the
same
service
in
the
end.
C
Next
we
have
the
network
status
Watchers
again,
there's
multiple
of
these
run
by
different
parties.
These
will
periodically
test
the
infrastructure
providers
by
sending
them
a
small
volume
of
requests,
they'll
measure
the
performance
and
check
for
correctness
of
those
responses.
They'll
report
all
this
to
a
Federated
status
page.
So
if
you're
thinking
about
using
this
network
you'll
be
able
to
go
there,
look
through
the
different
providers
see
how
they
perform.
What
their
you
know,
capabilities
are
of
those
things
and
also
in
cases
of
provably
incorrect
responses.
C
So
there
are
certain
requests
on
the
ethereum
Json
RPC
API
that
you
could
prove
with
Merkle
proofs
rather
easily.
So
in
those
cases
those
might
also
be
used
to
inform
penalties
to
the
node
providers
and
we
hope,
over
time
as
stateless
clients
start
to
improve
that
there
will
be
more
and
more
of
that
API
surface.
That
is
verifiable,
a
picture
of
kind
of
what
it
looks
like
to
run
a
network
status
Watcher.
C
They
will
have
to
run
some
small
amount
of
blockchain
infrastructure
themselves,
not
nearly
on
the
scale
that
an
infrastructure
provider
would
because
they're
not
serving
a
high
volume
of
requests,
but
they
need
sort
of
a
baseline
to
compare
to.
They
want
to
check
that
the
infrastructure
providers
are
near
what
they
think
is
the
head
of
the
chain
and
then,
of
course,
they'll
have
all
these
periodic
tests
that
they're
running
to
see
if
the
providers
are
operating
well,
so
they'll
interact
with
the
infrastructure
providers.
C
They'll
potentially
send
things
to
a
Smart
contract
on
chain
for
those
provably
incorrect
responses,
and
then
they
will
also
send
their
results
to
a
Federated
status
page
where
you
can
view
more
detailed
information
and
then
last
we
have
the
Ingress
node.
So,
as
I
mentioned,
this
kind
of
serves
as
an
intermediary
between
the
end
user
and
the
infrastructure
providers.
So
an
end
user
will
send
their
Json
RPC
request
to
an
Ingress
node
and
then
that
Ingress
node
May
then
forward
that
to
multiple
different
infrastructure
providers.
Maybe
they
generally
send
it
to
one?
C
And
if
that
goes
down,
they
have
a
fallback.
Maybe
they
round
robin
in.
Maybe
they
choose
to
actually
send
it
to
all
of
them
and
do
a
quorum
of
that
and
return
it
to
the
user.
This
will
be
something
that
the
Ingress
node
can
actually
choose
how
they
want
to
do
it,
and
one
reason
for
having
this
Ingress
node
is
that
you
can
use
it
to
give
the
same
web
to
ux
of
the
centralized
providers
today.
So
I
think
there's
a
reason
that
inferior
and
centralized
providers
have
been
so
successful.
C
It's
provided
a
an
easy
entry
point
for
people
to
come
and
swipe
their
credit
card
and
get
access
to
the
network
and
that
doesn't
necessarily
align
with
a
decentralized
ethos,
but
it's
also
brought
a
lot
more
people
to
our
our
world,
and
so
an
Ingress
node
might
allow
users
to
actually
pay
them
in
Fiat
and
then
give
them
API
access.
But
this
will
still
have
better
results
than
the
current
model,
because
they
can
then
be
sending
the
traffic
to
multiple
infrastructure
providers
and
get
some
of
those
benefits.
C
In
addition
to
that,
though,
an
Ingress
node
might
purchase
resources
from
several
node
providers
and
then
register
themselves
as
a
node
provider
with
the
sort
of
the
you
know,
the
sum
of
all
of
that
capacity
and
then
an
end
user
can
go
and
pay
for
that
provider.
In
crypto,
and
then
you
have
a
fully
crypto
native
experience,
so
there's
options
here:
the
node
provider
lets
you
do
a
lot
of
interesting
things
with
combining
other
providers.
So
the
on
chain
registry
is
what
we're
typically
calling
our
smart
contract.
C
That
kind
of
coordinates
all
of
this
and
the
main
way
to
think
about
it
is
it's
basically,
the
data
structure
of
your
node
providers.
So
we
have
a
very
simple
example
of
what
that
kind
of
looks
like
this
is
just
one
detail,
but
you
have
your
name
providers
and
the
protocols
that
they're
supporting
so
as
inferior,
maybe
we're
supporting
the
five
that
are
listed
here,
but
maybe
operator
a
is
only
supporting
Ethan
polygon.
C
This
is
where
you
would
also
be
able
to
see
things
like,
maybe
what
region
they
exist
in,
whether
they
support
archive
nodes.
Things
like
that
gonna
look,
sort
of
of
the
timeline
of
how
this
all
operates
so
first,
of
course
the
smart
contract
is
deployed
some
amount
of
time
later
your
infrastructure
providers
come
in
and
they
register
they
specify
the
protocols,
the
capabilities
and
the
throughput
that
they'll
support
some
amount
of
time
later.
You'll
have
Network
watches
that
will
register.
C
So
in
the
center
you
have
the
on-chain
registry.
You
have
your
network
Watchers,
your
infrastructure
providers,
your
blockchain
API
consumers
and
your
Ingress
nodes
that
all
will
register
with
that
on
chain
registry
and
then,
once
that's
all
set
up
your
blockchain
API
consumers
can
send
their
requests
to
the
various
infrastructure
providers
that
they've
chosen
or
to
an
Ingress
node,
which
is
sort
of
helping
them.
Do
that
and
yeah.
We
hope
once
we
have
that
all
figured
out
that
it'll
give
us
a
self-sustaining,
reliable
and
robust
network
of
infrastructure
providers.
C
That's
built
to
really
serve
the
high
throughput
that
inferior
can
today
or
other
centralized
providers
can
today
for
all
of
the
blockchain
API
requests
that
you
you
need,
but
instead
of
what
we
have
now
it'll
remove
a
single
point
of
failure.
We
help
to
hope
to
do
this
out
in
the
open
as
much
as
possible
and
really
follow
that
collaborative
web3
Spirit.
C
This
is,
we
hope,
really
going
to
improve
reliability
for
these
for
the
users
and
get
a
lot
closer
to
that
kind
of
100
uptime
dream,
but
also
which
I
think
is
important,
still
provide
the
ability
to
have
that
really
easy
web
to
ux.
If
you
want
it,
we
could
also
have
the
crypto
native
and
yeah.
That's
it
we're
seeking
strong
web
3
infrastructure
providers
to
work
together
with
us
if
you're
interested
in
joining
and
participating
in
this
network,
I
encourage
you
to
snap
this
QR
code.
C
D
A
Of
definitely
improved
censorship,
censorship,
resistance,
because
it's
permissionless
anybody
can
participate
in
the
network
by
meeting
the
criteria
to
join
the
network,
which
is
technical,
technical
criteria
of
meeting
a
level
of
performance
right.
If
you
can
meet
a
level
of
performance,
you
can
participate
in
the
network,
we're
not
going
to
be
selecting
who
can
participate
and.
A
They
would
be
penalized
by
the
network
right
there's.
There
would
be
a
financial
incentive
to
provide
the
minimum
level
of
performance
and
they
would
get
penalized
by
the
network
if
they're
not
meeting
that
level
of
performance.
Additionally,
that
Network
Watcher,
that
or
in
status
monitor
that
we're
talking
about
is
continuously
checking
and
Reporting
on
both
the
capabilities
of
the
network
as
well
as
the
performance.
So
you
can
see
here's
a
new
provider
that
just
joined
they've
only
been
part
of
the
network
for
seven
days.
They
support
seven
networks
of
those
seven
networks.
A
B
Can
you
give
an
example
of
what
the
centralized
infrastructure
currently
looks
like
in
terms
of
like
number
of
servers
and
bandwidth
and
so
on,
and
what
you
expect
will
be:
when
it's
decentralized
will
there
be
overhead?
Will
it
will
it
need
more
servers
to
do
the
same
performance?
That
kind
of
thing.
B
A
So
that's
the
challenge
that
we've
had.
Is
we
built
that
as
quickly
as
possible
to
solve
problems
and
it's
very
proprietary,
Cloud
specific
and
we've
been
working
on?
How
do
we
retool
that
so
that
it's
something
that
can
be
not
just
open
source
and
something
that
somebody
else
can
run
but
can
run
with,
like
not
a
team
of
dozens
of
operations?
People,
and
so
it's
not.
A
What
we're
going
to
release
in
the
node
kit
is
what
we
think
is
an
minimum
level
of
functionality
of
performance,
where
this
is
better
than
running
a
bunch
of
nodes
behind
a
load
balancer,
because
it
now
has
some
of
these
indexing
and
performance
optimizing
systems.
But
it's
something
that
can
be
taken
on
by
hopefully
an
individual,
but
at
the
very
least,
a
small
team,
much
smaller
team
than
the
current
inferior
team.
F
A
That's
one
of
the
things
that
we've
been
considering
as
we're
going
through
the
design,
we're
leaning
towards
don't
don't
start
a
new
chain
for
that
like
try
to
use
something
that
exists,
and
that
goes
back
to
the.
Why
are
we
doing
it
now,
rather
than
in
2016,
when
people
are
talking
about
like
micro
payments
between
providers
and
like
you
use
State
channels
for
that,
and
all
these
other
things
like
we
would
have
had
to
develop
a
significant
amount
of
our
research
just
on
that
problem.
A
Okay,
so
multi-part,
so
who
decides?
Who
can
be
an
operator?
So
this
form
to
sign
up
is
to
participate
in,
like
a
permission
beta,
similarly
to
like
how,
when
other
people
are
developing
new
networks,
we're
going
to
have
to
start
with
a
small
group
to
try
to
test
and
iterate
iterate
with
and
for
that
we're
looking
for
people
that
already
have
experience
with
the
infrastructure
and
that
we
can
reach
out
to
and
get
feedback
from
pretty
quickly
on
the
technical
front.
But
once
we
actually
launch
this
network,
it's
fully
permissionless.
A
The
criteria
of
that
is
what
we're
defining
as
a
protocol
in
the
design
of
this
would
be.
You
know
the
amount
of
resources
that
you
would
have
to
provide,
or
this
would
be
the
minimum
level
of
performance,
so
you
have
to
at
least
support
one
network.
You
have
to
at
least
support
this
level
of
performance
and
then,
as
long
as
you
can
meet
that
it's
anybody.
H
C
At
the
end,
grass
yeah
it'll
definitely
be
optional,
so
I
can't
quite
get
to
the
slides
it'll
take
too
long,
but
you
can
still
have
a
consumer
who
will
go
directly
to
the
contract
to
purchase
resources
and
go
directly
to
one
or
multiple
node
providers
that
they
choose.
The
Ingress
node
is
kind
of
an
option
where,
if
you
don't
want
to
go
to
the
trouble
of
doing
that,
maybe
you
want
to
use
one
that
allows
you
to
pay
in
Fiat
that
you
can.
But
it's
an
option.