Infura glitch affects multiple apps, but ethereum is less of a problem

Author | Qin Xiaofeng

Produced | Odaily

Author | Qin Xiaofeng

Produced | Odaily

At 5 pm today, Binance announced the temporary closure of the deposit and withdrawal of ETH and ERC20. The reason was that the ETH network was suspected to have a fork at block height 11234873, and Etherscan and Blockchair browsers had different hashes at the same height.

Later, Twitter users broke the news that Upbit, Bithumb and other trading platforms have also announced the suspension of related token recharges; the Ethereum light wallet MetaMask also has abnormal balance display and data delays.

The abnormality of the Ethereum network data this time is mainly due to the failure of Infura, the basic setting of Ethereum.

Infura is the Ethereum infrastructure developed by developer Michael Wuehler. For ordinary developers, decentralized applications can process information on Ethereum without running a full node. Some of the most popular decentralized applications or protocols, such as the Ethereum wallet MetaMask or the decentralized exchange protocol 0x, rely on Infura to broadcast transaction data and smart contracts to the Ethereum mainnet. Previous data showed that Infura processed up to 13 billion transactions per day. requests.

For the vast majority of developers, choosing Infura's API service is probably the most common choice. Many people also compare Infura to Amazon Cloud and Alibaba Cloud of the Ethereum network.

However, it was this failure that caused the vast majority of users using Infura to have abnormal data. In response, Infura has provided additional online processing capacity for the affected components.

Many developers told Odaily that this failure is not a big problem, and it will not affect the Ethereum mainnet, let alone fork. "After synchronization, the data will still be consistent,"

Vitalik, the founder of Ethereum, also denied the fork of the Ethereum network in the Chinese community, and said that the network is fine.

“Exchanges should run their own Ethereum nodes.” Bitfinex CTO and Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino commented.

recommended readingAs of press time, Binance has also reopened the deposit and withdrawal of ETH and ERC20 tokens, and Infura also stated that "the root cause has been identified and a fix is ​​being prepared to restore service functionality."