The Burden of Infura

It’s difficult to be a viable decentralized network when a majority of your applications depend on centralized infrastructure services.

That’s the situation many in the community want Ethereum to grow away from, as the cost and requirements to sufficiently run a fully synced node have pushed developers and dapp teams to opt-out of maintaining their own local infrastructure, and instead defer to third-party centralized infrastructure service providers like ConsenSys-owned Infura.