Metamask temporarily stopped working in connection with infrastructure Infura infrastructure – Bits Media

The popular cryptocurrency wallet Metamask temporarily stopped working last night after failures in the operation of Infura infrastructure company systems.

The failures began around 17:00 Moscow time. The problem was in the operation of RPC functionality on the Infura platform. Around 19:30 The developers of the system identified and eliminated the problem.

“The functionality of webcakes was restored, Like the operability of Infura services. We apologize for temporary inconvenience and release a full analysis of the situation later, After collecting details ", - said on the page with the statuses of Infura systems.

The Infura platform provides applications with a convenient and standardized method for working with blockchains. In the case of Metamask wallet, It's about Ethereum.

Interesting, that malfunctions on the platform led to a significant decrease in commissions in the second cryptocurrency network. After the start of problems, the average commission for the transaction with ETH decreased with 100 до 20 weave.

In early March, Infura blocked access to her services to users from Venezuela. They lost the opportunity to use the Metamask wallet and other applications, based on API Infura. Later it turned out, that the lock was erroneous and users were returned access.