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, original author: Kate Irwin

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Ethereum infrastructure developer Infura announced at the ETHBerlin hackathon on Friday that it is creating a Decentralized Infrastructure Network (Decentralized Infrastructure Network), which will launch sometime next year.

Officials say the new network will provide "millions of future users" with access to Web3 products "without interruption and downtime from a single point of failure."

Infura provides the backend infrastructure for Web3 companies to help launch their products. It provides a way for businesses to connect to blockchains like Ethereum without running their own nodes. As it attracts more customers, various companies run their projects through Infura, and Web3 as a whole becomes more centralized.

Back in 2019, Infura stated that decentralization could be achieved if everyone ran their own node. Now, the company's decentralized infrastructure network may be an alternative solution.

Infura co-founder EG Galano said in an interview that he doesn't want Web3 to depend on just one or a few infrastructure providers like Infura.

“As time goes on, blockchains get bigger and it becomes harder for people to run their own infrastructure. So you can fast-forward a few years and ask questions (from a future perspective), just Will it be Infura? Will it just be a few entities like Infura? It doesn’t feel right.”

Although the name "Decentralized Infrastructure Network" is not very easy to pronounce, it may change over time.

“We had to come up with a better name for it,” Galano said, adding that the company was “very straightforward” when it came to naming new products. For example, Infura itself means "infrastructure" in Japanese.

The announcement of Infura coincides with the recent merger of Ethereum and the successful transition of the Ethereum blockchain from PoW to PoS.

Galano said Infura first began working on the initiative in 2017 and has dabbled in research on the network on and off for the past five years. "Due to the day-to-day operational needs of our MetaMask users and all Infura-based developers, we were unable to dedicate a significant amount of time and effort to this research," he said.

Now, its network is ready to enter the next stage of development: designing the protocols (or code) that underpin the network.

Infura is a product of Ethereum software company ConsenSys. ConsenSys is led by its CEO and Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin. In the announcement, Lubin said that decentralization is ConsenSys’ “overarching goal” and that Infura’s new network will be a “natural continuation of that goal.”