Base’s Xen Baynham-Herd On AWS Outage: “Crypto Should Become Less Reliant On Centralized Servers — But It’ll Take Years”

Xen Baynham-Herd, Head of Global Builders at Base, commented on the recent major AWS outage that affected platforms like Coinbase, highlighting the crypto industry's significant dependency on centralized cloud infrastructure. He asserted that the industry should strive to become less reliant on centralized servers, though achieving true decentralization comparable to current services will take years, drawing parallels to Ethereum's decade-long development path. Base itself experienced minimal impact. Baynham-Herd emphasized that Base's philosophy centers on building an open global economy, acting as a "bridge, not an island." Furthermore, he noted a growing trend of Web2 developers entering the Base ecosystem, attracted by new possibilities like integrating wallets and on-chain payments into their applications.

(Source：CCN)