Building Tomorrow's Backbone: The Rise of Decentralized Infrastructure
summary
Panelists describe concrete infrastructure work: Gelato Network runs a decentralized automation layer serving about 400 projects, enabling gasless and conditional onchain actions for DeFi, NFT and gaming apps and enterprise integrations; Analog raises ~$14M and ships cross-chain tooling like Analog Watch and an Omni-chain SDK to query chains and link smart contracts. The discussion contrasts centralized sequencers (low latency, regulated enterprise use) with decentralized/shared sequencers, and predicts many apps moving to app-chains with modular tooling.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Decentralized infrastructure intro
- 3:14Why decentralization matters
- 7:28Centralization to decentralization
- 11:58Gelato’s backend growth
- 17:58App chains vs monolithic chains
- 23:37Sequencer decentralization debate
- 28:08Closing remarks & Q&A
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