Cloudflare

Basics

"Cloudflare has developed a gateway to Ethereum that gives users the ability to access the network directly from their hostname without installing any additional software. Through Cloudflare’s API, developers can add elements powered by the Ethereum blockchain onto their websites. 

Cloudflare has already developed an IPFS gateway, which allows for content to be hosted on IPFS and served from a custom domain over HTTPs. Using these two gateways in conjunction gives users the ability to host their websites and services in a decentralized manner through Cloudflare’s existing edge network.

So far, a substantial segment of the industry has relied on Infura’s API to access the Ethereum network without having to host a full node and download hundreds of gigabytes of data. This has been an extremely fragile point of centralization for the Ethereum ecosystem. Cloudflare’s gateway, while centralized technologically, is actually a decentralizing force by providing users with an additional option."

• Is one of the early participators to run an ION node.

Team, Funding, Partners

• Matter Labs; participated in an undisclosed round for zkSync (1-3-2021).
• Is one of the projects that is contributing to Microsoft's ION (25-3-2021).