What is Infura | Divyansh Rai

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Divyansh Rai
Sept 28, 2022
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What is Infura

Infura is a kind of node storage (cluster). A set of tools that provides its services for integrating your application with the Ethereum network.

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With its help, we successfully remove one of the most difficult barriers to blockchain adoption. Running a node requires a decent level of technical knowledge, patience, processing power, and memory. Using an app like Infura makes it unnecessary for us.

Infura aims to make life easier for developers. Some of the major network problems include:

  • Storing data in Ethereum is expensive.
  • It is difficult to connect on your own to the Ethereum blockchain.
  • Blockchain synchronization is slow.
  • Ethereum blockchain takes up a lot of space.

By eliminating the need for developers and companies to maintain the nodes themselves, Infura offers certain benefits:

  • Access to the Ethereum blockchain is getting much faster.
  • By managing nodes, developers don’t need to worry about infrastructure constraints.
  • Instead of keeping everything in a chain, data can be stored separately, keeping only the hash.

And here’s what the developers say about the project:

  • Mainnet and Testnet support with client-compatible JSON-RPC request over HTTPS and WSS.
  • Support for standard IPFS libraries for storing and retrieving data on the network.
  • Connecting an application with one line of code. No need for synchronization and complex settings.

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