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Prologue: The Edge of the Virtual Universe
In 2045, humanity successfully colonized Mars, becoming a multi-planet species. However, the real world was shrouded in darkness. The Earth's population was overgrown, resources depleted, and the air was filled with the acrid smell of industrial waste; the Martian colonies struggled in harsh environments, with the cold and oppressive metallic walls of the underground bases, the ticking of oxygen dispensers constantly reminding residents: survival is a luxury.
The only solace for humanity was a virtual universe called "OASIS." This was a virtual network reality composed of computational nodes and data streams, covering Earth and Mars, controlling everyone's lives. The oasis was a universe made of purple light flows and data stars, with holographic advertisements floating on the streets, where residents' virtual avatars traversed through the light flows, engaging in economy, socializing, entertainment, and even digital immortality—achieved by reconstructing consciousness through AI to exist eternally in the virtual network—all relied on this. However, every inch of brilliance in the oasis was controlled by the computational giant OmniCore. They leveraged the powerful AI "Regulator" to monopolize computational power, stripping away the essence of decentralization, tampering with on-chain data, and controlling human destiny. Residents had become digital slaves, and freedom had become an unreachable dream.

AWS is down today, so I have to say something. As the founder of Node-X, I want to talk about the reality, crisis, and opportunity of Web3 infrastructure.
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AWS went down today, and Binance, Kucoin, Debank, and even some mainstream public chain nodes were all down.
This is not the first time I have seen this happen. But every time I see this kind of thing, I am still shocked.
Web3 has been talking about decentralization for so many years, but our underlying infrastructure still runs on the Web2 cloud.
When AWS went down, half of Web3 went black, and many people panicked and suffered huge losses. This is not decentralization, this is Web3 in disguise of cloud.

An AWS outage has exposed the centralization wound of Web3.
NodeHub completed white-list internal testing today, officially starting open testing. A timely topic arose, so I will elaborate.
A large-scale AWS outage in April 2025 caused multiple Web3 project nodes to fail and mainnets to suspend operations, prompting industry reflection:
"Has Web3 really decentralized?"
In fact, many Web3 projects heavily rely on centralized cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, from RPC nodes, validator nodes, storage nodes, to front-end services.