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Summary

Pros

• Founded in 2016
• Established brand
• Heavily utilized by some wallets like Metamask
• Owned by Consensys

Cons

• Centralized / Corporation
• Only supports a small set of chains. Mostly ETH, but 13% of their requests are for L2s (Arbitrum, Optimism, and Polygon).
• Not open sourced
• Censorable / Permissioned
• Web2 payments / KYC

Recently, Infura announced an intention to “decentralized”, requesting people to apply to become part of this new network. No white paper was released or any design concepts.