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Announcing The Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways Private Beta: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse and Decentralized Finance for Everyone

What's this blog post about?

Cloudflare introduces private beta of its Web3 product suite starting with Ethereum and IPFS gateway. The company aims to make Web3 technologies more accessible for developers by providing a stable, reliable, and resilient method to translate HTTP requests into the correct Web3 functions or protocols. The new gateways will help businesses operating at scale and improve user experience by reducing latency and increasing reliability. Cloudflare's global network provides an advantage in caching content near users, allowing for faster download speeds compared to native IPFS.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Oct. 1, 2021

Author(s)
Wesley Evans, Brian Batraski

Word count
2026

Hacker News points
107

Language
English


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