Messari Researchers Worry About Ethereum and Solana Node Centralization
- August 18, 2022
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The three main cloud providers account for 69% of the 65% Ethereum nodes hosted in their data centers, while Solana owns 72% of the 95% nodes hosted by
The three main cloud providers account for 69% of the 65% Ethereum nodes hosted in their data centers, while Solana owns 72% of the 95% nodes hosted by the same infrastructure players, as is the second largest cryptocurrency network by capitalization.
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The three major cloud providers are responsible for 69% of 65% of companies. @Ethereum nodes hosted in data centers.
estimated 95% of @Solana nodes hosted in data centers, 72% hosted on same cloud providers @Ethereum. pic.twitter.com/oK08c3G6Of
— Messari (@MessariCrypto) 18 August 2022
On Ethereum, these top three belong to Amazon Web Services (50%). The share of Hetzner and OVH is 15% and 4%, respectively. In Solana, Amazon Web Services owns only 4%, while Hetzner and OVH own 42% and 26%.
Ethernodes gives a more detailed picture of other cloud providers in the second cryptocurrency network by capitalization. In particular, the share of Alibaba (3.9%) and Oracle (4.1%) is only slightly lower than OVH (4.2%). Google (3.5%), Digital Ocean (2%), netcup (1.9%) and Сontabo (1.8%) also stand out.
In terms of value, Amazon Web Services, Hetzner and OVH account for 15%, 20% and 8% of the total staked funds in Solana.
Experts, level RPC serves as a prime candidate for censorship. To date, the development of decentralized alternatives to Anker and Pocket has not qualitatively changed the situation, moreover, due to the peculiarities of managing their mechanisms, they have not solved the problem of a single point of failure.
Do Ankr and Cep Solve Web3’s Node Centralization Problems? Check out this report at: @Old_Samster.https://t.co/kKBoLQoXIf
— Messari (@MessariCrypto) 18 August 2022
Recall that Infura and Alchemy infrastructure platforms limit RPC requests to Tornado Cash after the service is included in the sanction list. OFAC.
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