Building Resilient Web3 Infrastructure: A Silent Priority

Pauline Shangett, Chief Strategy Officer at ChangeNOW, underscores the critical yet overlooked role of infrastructure in Web3's survival. Unlike high-profile hacks, infrastructure failures strike silently—collapsing services without warning or narrative. "When the ground disappears beneath you, users don't care about root causes," Shangett notes. "They see downtime, failed transactions, and eroded trust."

The interview dismantles the industry's obsession with hardware-versus-cloud debates, arguing resilience matters more. Shangett warns that overlooked details—missed patches, physical disasters, or overloaded endpoints—can paralyze wallets, DApps, and exchanges overnight. "Infrastructure becomes the only thing that matters when it fails," she asserts, linking Web3's next adoption wave to foundational stability.