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Is Cloudflare affecting crypto exchanges?

A Cloudflare outage on Tuesday knocked out numerous popular web services, including major crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex and OKX, raising questions about the security of centralized crypto platforms.

What happened to Cloudflare?

Many services affected by the Cloudflare incident were back online within two hours. The scale of losses caused by the outage is still unclear but a dvocates of decentralization have long warned of the risk of keeping one’s funds on centralized crypto exchanges, which act as escrows for customers and tout their more user-friendly features.

What is Cloudflare ETH?

Similar to our IPFS gateway, cloudflare-eth.com is an SSL for SaaS provider. This means that anyone can set up the Cloudflare Ethereum gateway as a backend for access to the Ethereum network through their own registered domains.

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