The year 2025 will be remembered as the year the "Cloud" broke. From the massive AWS US-EAST-1 failure in October to the mid-November Cloudflare "Bot Management" collapse, the internet's central nervous system proved it has a single point of failure. For the crypto world, this was a moment of reckoning. While the XRP Ledger and Ethereum continued to process transactions, the access points—the frontends and RPC nodes—simply vanished.
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As we enter 2026, Vitalik Buterin has issued a manifesto that calls for an end to "Pseudo-Decentralization." He argues that the industry has spent too long focusing on "winning the next meta" (like memecoins) and not enough on the "Walkaway Test."
What is the "Walkaway Test"?
The "Walkaway Test" is Buterin’s new gold standard for decentralized applications. He posits that a true DApp must remain usable even if its creators are gone and their AWS subscription expires. During the 2025 outages, the crypto community was silenced because the infrastructure for X (Twitter) and various Discord bots also relied on the same centralized nodes. Buterin’s vision for 2026 is an Ethereum that doesn't just host tokens, but hosts the entire web experience.
Beyond the Ledger: The Rise of DePIN
SolanaTo solve the "Cloudflare Problem," the industry is pivoting toward Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN). By using IPFS for content delivery and projects like EthStorage to turn Ethereum itself into a web server, the goal is to make the "front door" of crypto as unstoppable as the "vault."
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