Points of Centralization and Paths to Decentralization
summary
Describes a concrete plan to move RPC infrastructure from a single-provider model toward a decentralized network of incentivized operators, network Watchers reporting capabilities into an on-chain registry, and optional Ingress node gateways that take payments and route traffic. Claims market share fell from ~100% in 2016 to under 100% as multi-provider stacks emerged, notes running nodes for all 18 chains is impractical, and proposes federated members, status monitoring, and rewards for operators serving RPC traffic at scale.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:28Points of Centralization
- 11:47The Decentralized Alternative
- 12:14The Ethereum Virtual Machine Innovation
- 15:42The Decentralized Infrastructure Network
- 16:20Decentralized Architecture
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