Decentralized Infrastructure

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[00:02:08] - [First question] - How he first got involved with Ethereum and wound up at ConsenSys

[00:04:57] - What made the idea of smart contracts so special and first got his attention

[00:06:21] - The original inspiration behind building Infura

[00:08:31] - What life was like trying to build on top of Ethereum before Infura

[00:10:19] - Overview of what a node is and what it’s like to run one 

[00:11:49] - When the time came to outsource instead of handling infrastructure internally

[00:14:15] - How Infura was initially received and whether or not blockchain participants and builders felt it went against their decentralized philosophies 

[00:19:48] - Going from an open source project to a monetized platform 

[00:22:49] - How their premium offering was received and which developers made them second guess themselves

[00:24:14] - The story of Uniswap and how Infura influenced and impacted their success

[00:27:52] - How the buying and trading of an NFT with MetaMask interacts with Infura

[00:32:01] - Whether or not building applications on blockchains is more similar to on-premise servers than building on the cloud

[00:34:08] - His thoughts about their market share and possible system fragility 

[00:35:39] - How their mission incentivizes them to help and support their competitors 

[00:39:14] - What he’s worried about that could go wrong when decentralizing infrastructure

[00:41:11] - Jai Ramaswamy - Crypto Regulation and Enforcement

[00:43:58] - Thoughts about decentralization, the benefits of it, and where Infura is headed

[00:48:11] - Describing the future of Infura in a non-technical way 

[00:49:32] - The trigger that lead to making an immediate pivot in their trajectory

[00:53:44] - What he’s most excited to see built in the six months and six years