3 cloud providers accounting for over two-thirds of Ethereum nodes: Data

Cointelegraph

Published Aug 18, 2022 04:28AM ET

Updated Aug 18, 2022 06:00AM ET

The majority of 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are in the hands of centralized web providers like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services (AWS), which could “expose Ethereum to central points of failure,” according to crypto analytics platform Messari.

A Monday post shows that three major cloud providers account for 69% of hosted nodes on the Ethereum Mainnet, with over 50% of that coming from Amazon Web Services (AWS), over 15% from Hetzner and 4.1% from OVH.

Distribution of Ethereum nodes from web service providers. Source: Ethernodes

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