Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said decentralised applications could reduce the impact of failures in core internet infrastructure following major cloud outages in 2025.
Buterin pointed to a large Cloudflare outage in November that temporarily disrupted access to many cryptocurrency platforms.
In a post on X, Buterin said Ethereum must further its mission of building infrastructure for “a more free and open internet.”
He said progress begins with DApps that operate without fraud, censorship or reliance on third parties.
Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down.
Vitalik Buterin said.
Buterin added that such applications should remain stable regardless of companies, political systems or ideologies.
The Cloudflare outage caused roughly 20% of hosted websites to go offline due to a software failure, the company later confirmed.
Cloudflare said a file used by its bot management system exceeded its size limits during a cyberattack response.
Concerns over centralised infrastructure deepened after a separate Amazon Web Services outage in October caused similar disruptions.
Crypto platforms including Coinbase, Blockchain.com, BitMEX and Ledger were temporarily unavailable during the incidents.
Decentralisation erodes not through capture, but through convenience.
Vitalik Buterin, Yoav Weiss and Marissa Posner said.
The researchers warned that systems naturally drift towards trusted intermediaries over time.
Buterin has also proposed creating a trustless onchain gas futures market to provide predictable transaction fees.
At the time of reporting, Ethereum price was $2,993.76.