Cloudflare Outage Exposes Web3’s Centralization Problem

The latest Cloudflare outage caused widespread disruption across crypto applications, demonstrating the sector’s heavy reliance on centralized internet infrastructure. As Cloudflare’s worst service disruption since 2019, the incident exposed a major contradiction within the crypto industry’s claims of decentralization and resilience. This outage raised difficult questions: Can genuine decentralization exist if a single provider can take down large swaths of the industry? Scale and Cause of the Cloudflare Outage The outage began at 11:20 UTC on November 18, following a database permissions change that triggered a failure in Cloudflare’s network. In its official incident report, Cloudflare explained that a bot management feature file had doubled in size, exceeding memory limits and resulting in widespread HTTP 5xx errors source: https://beincrypto.com/cloudflare-crypto-centralization-outage/