"Infura closely monitors changes to US sanctions programs announced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control and narrowly tailors its internal controls to comply with the law. It came about, Infura says, due to accidentally reconfiguring settings "more broadly than they needed to be" to comply with "new sanctions directives."Ī spokesperson for ConsenSys told Decrypt, after this article was originally published:
Infura, which hosts Ethereum nodes and operates blockchain infrastructure on behalf of companies, says the problem was accidental and has been resolved. (Disclosure: An editorially independent Decrypt receives funding from ConsenSys Mesh.)īut the blockade wasn't meant for them, but rather was the result of adding IP addresses from two separatist regions in Ukraine: Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Venezuelan users of two major ConsenSys software products, MetaMask and Infura, found themselves all but cut off from the Ethereum network today, with many reporting they had been blocked from their wallets.
The headline has been changed the article clarifies MetaMask says it was defaulting to Infura servers but not blocking IP addresses and it includes comments from ConsenSys about the affected regions. It had a knock-on effect for users of the MetaMask wallet, which defaults to Infura.Įditor's Note: This story has been revised from the original. Venezuelan users, Infura says, accidentally got blocked. Infura has blocked access to "certain jurisdictions."
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