• 3 min read
What is Optimistic Ethereum?
Infura supports all the necessary API methods for building a fully functional application on the Optimistic Ethereum network.
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Ethereum Network Updates, Upgrades, Hard Forks
• 7 min read
Off-chain protocols: Sidechains and Rollups
Infura now supports additional networks including Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon. All three projects are essentially new blockchain networks. They offer low transaction fees and faster confirmation times compared to Ethereum. Crucially, they extend the utility of Ethereum as users can transact using their assets that fundamentally reside on Ethereum. This
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• 5 min read
London Fork
The Infura team describes the technical details and changes which may be needed for a project to be London fork and EIP-1559 compatible.
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• 5 min read
What Does it Take to Handle Two Billion eth_calls Per Day?
In 2017, Infura was processing +300MM eth_calls per day. Since then, we’ve scaled our architecture to over 2B eth_calls per day during the recent DeFi activity spike of 2020. Our increased ability to handle such high volumes, in part, comes down to our approach to scaling methods like eth_call.
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• 2 min read
IPFS 0.5 is here with a new improved gateway!
We’re happy to share that IPFS 0.5, the largest upgrade to the IPFS protocol and Public Network yet, is now available on the Infura IPFS service. The upgrade offers major performance and reliability updates so that you can distribute content peer-to-peer more efficiently.
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