Infura, the Web3 infrastructure provider owned by Consensys, has launched a Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN) in partnership with major technology firms including Microsoft and Tencent Cloud, along with a broader cohort of 18 infrastructure and data providers. The initiative, announced in November 2023 at the Decentralized RPC Summit during Devconnect in Istanbul, shifts Infura from a purely centralized remote procedure call (RPC) provider to a federated, progressively decentralized network for blockchain access. DIN is designed as a decentralized “RPC-as-a-service” layer that allows developers to connect to Ethereum and other supported blockchains through multiple independent providers instead of a single central endpoint. According to Infura and partners, the goal is to enhance resilience, censorship resistance, and remove single points of failure in core Web3 infrastructure, addressing long‑standing concerns that reliance on centralized RPC gateways can create chokepoints for dApps and end users. The initial DIN cohort includes infrastructure and data specialists such as Chainstack, Covalent, Everstake, Bloq, Gateway.fm, and others, which will share traffic and redundancy across the network. Early features focus on failover protection for Ethereum and Polygon, enabling automatic rerouting of RPC traffic between partners in case of outages. For developers and the broader ecosystem, the collaboration represents a step toward more robust and politically neutral access to blockchain networks, while still maintaining performance and scalability expected from enterprise-grade providers.

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