Infura launches DIN AVS to bring decentralized RPC and API marketplace to EigenLayer
Infura's DIN AVS launches on EigenLayer to decentralize RPC infrastructure, creating a marketplace secured by restaked ETH.Summary
Infura, through its Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN), has launched an Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS) mainnet on EigenLayer to introduce economic security and decentralization to the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) sector, which is currently dominated by a few centralized providers handling 70% to 80% of traffic.
DIN's AVS leverages EigenLayer's restaking model, allowing users to secure the network using restaked ETH (including liquid staking tokens like stETH). This structure incentivizes hundreds of operators, rewarding them for uptime and accurate data while imposing penalties for failures. E.G. Galano, co-founder of Infura, stated that this turns infrastructure into an open marketplace where performance is directly rewarded.
The initiative aims to mitigate systemic risk caused by centralized RPC outages. DIN already routes over 13 billion monthly requests across various chains and features permissionless onboarding for providers, independent performance verification, and the ability for restakers to select which networks they secure. Founding node operators and other partners are already contributing to the mainnet rollout.
(Source：The Block)