The recent Cloudflare outage has been making waves across the Web3 ecosystem. For those who missed it, a major configuration error triggered the widespread service disruption that impacted countless websites and decentralized applications relying on Cloudflare's CDN infrastructure.

This incident serves as a critical reminder of how centralized infrastructure dependencies can create single points of failure in the broader crypto and blockchain space. Even though we're building decentralized finance and Web3 technologies, many DApps, exchanges, and blockchain explorers still depend heavily on centralized providers like Cloudflare for DNS resolution, DDoS protection, and content delivery.

When such providers experience outages—regardless of the cause—it cascades through the ecosystem quickly. Wallets struggle to connect, trading platforms become unreachable, and transaction confirmations hit delays. The infrastructure layer clearly needs more resilience.

This is exactly why conversations around decentralized alternatives for critical infrastructure functions continue to gain traction. CDN services, DNS providers, and API gateways are becoming increasingly important considerations for projects building robust, fault-tolerant systems in crypto.

What are your thoughts? Should the Web3 community be investing more heavily in decentralized infrastructure redundancy?