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Outages with Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services caused brief massive outages in 2025, affecting several cryptocurrency platforms. Vitalik Buterin, one of the co-founders of the Ethereum blockchain, said decentralization applications (DApps) could mitigate failures in internet infrastructure, such as when internet services provider Cloudflare experienced a massive outage in November. In a Thursday X post, Buterin said Ethereum needed to do more to achieve its mission of “[building] the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.” According to the co-founder, that started with DApps that “run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference” and are usable at scale on the blockchain. “Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea,” said Buterin. “Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applicat...

Many users reported not having access to websites, including Coinbase and Blockchain.com, and social media platforms after Cloudflare reported an “internal service degradation.” Cloudflare, the company responsible for providing network services to websites and platforms across the internet, reported disruptions, which removed access to the front end of many cryptocurrency websites and communications through social media. In a Tuesday update to its system status, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix after reporting an “internal service degradation” at 11:48 am UTC.  “[W]e believe the incident is now resolved,” said Cloudlfare in an update on its status. “We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.” Read more

Cloudflare said NET Dollar is aimed at powering instant payments for AI agents, creators and developers worldwide. Cloud infrastructure company Cloudflare has announced plans to move into the digital assets market with the launch of a US dollar-backed stablecoin. According to a Thursday announcement, the company is working on the NET dollar, its stablecoin intended to support instant transactions triggered by AI agents — autonomous software programs that can perform tasks such as booking travel, ordering goods or managing schedules. “Personal agents will be able to take instant, programmatic actions like paying for the cheapest flight, or ordering an item the moment it goes on sale,” Cloudflare said about its vision for the stablecoin. Read more

The following is a guest post and opinion from Ahmad Shadid, CEO at O.XYZ. For years, a broken value exchange has defined the web. AI companies, racing to build powerful models, deployed bots to scrape a vast internet of content without permission or compensation. This practice of harvesting news, art, and data undermined the creators […] The post Cloudflare’s bot paywall could ignite a tokenized content gold rush appeared first on CryptoSlate.