How does Apron Network avoid the limitations of a centralized node service provider?

Apron Network
3 min readFeb 23, 2021

The future of internet and applications is heading towards a decentralized structure. Web 3.0 is going to re-defined how users access data and services, as peer to peer transactions would completely eliminate the utilization of a middleman. However, before properly understanding the importance of a decentralized structure and service providing platform, we need to comprehend the issues with current centralized set-ups.

Mask Network.io is currently working towards a seamless portal where users would be able to send encrypted messages, cryptocurrencies and dApps through social network platforms. Over the past 24-hours, the network was completely set to take advantage of WEB 3.0, conducting a $Mask public offering which consisted of three segments; Initial Token Offering(ITO), Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool(LBP) and Airdrop.

However, due to a certain technical issue, Mask Network announced that they were delaying their entire ITO process for a duration of 24 hours. Here is what happened.

According to their statement, Mask Network’s Ethereum RPC provider QuikNode was undergoing a downtime due to overloaded traffic.

Apron Network: The decentralized node service provider needed for WEB 3.0

The traffic overload witnessed by QuikNodes comes right down to its limitation due to its centralized structure. According to Quik Node’s website, the service providers also limit usage strength under congestion and it does not provide any load balancing. Apron Network would have the ideal solution in this situation.

With Apron Network, users and developers are exposed to a decentralized node service providing platform, where developers can access Ethereum node services though multiple service providers.

During Mask Network’s downtime dilemma, Apron Network would have been the perfect solution for an immediate recovery. From a developer’s side, Mask Network would have been able to directly connect to the network through the Apron Node. With the help of Apron SDK, the network can seamlessly migrate node services from the service providers, as the Apron SDK is provided for dynamic balancing of applications to the Apron Node, and encryption of data. Networks such as Mask, would only need to integrate the Apron SDK into their application and achieve appropriate load balancing. Since the entire platform is based on a decentralized connectivity, Mask Network would not need to depend on a centralized system like QuikNode, where its systems’ failure eventually led to the ITO delay.

dApp developers can utilize Ethereum node services through the Apron Network without any delay or migration.

Using Apron Network for Node service providers completely eliminates the dependence on a particular service. Load balancing is completely avoided as dApp developers can directly permeate their services through Apron SDK implementation to the required network, or manually switch the service provider at any time.

Anyone with an internet connectivity can become an Infura node, as they can provide their instructure services directly through Apron Network, and such a decentralized landscape is actually developing towards the eventual shift into WEB 3.0.

The recent conundrum faced by Binance was due to a similar issue. On 19th February, the exchange registered a brief downturn due to an AWS outage. The issue affected multiple exchanges as well and it was all due to dependence on a centralized node provider like AWS.

The problem persists with such structure as the disability of one provider completely jeopardizes important platforms that need to be active for 24x7. Apron Network completely eradicates such mishaps as a decentralized node service provider. Platforms would have access to multiple services within one network which would reduce the limitation of centralized systems.Since Apron Network allows access to a diverse set of node service providers, it enables application users and developers to utilize node services without worrying that the service they are using would be unavailable in the event of a failure, exactly what happened with Binance a few days back.

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Apron Network

An infrastructure platform for DAPP development, DAPP users, and basic operation services.