Why do CDNs make a lot of sense to be decentralized?

• • CDNs are distributed systems, so decentralization is not a foreign concept.

  • Content providers leveraging multiple CDNs is common practice in the industry, and CDNs federate and offload to one another.

  • Like in the case of bitcoin enabling entities to transact without the overhead and trust needed for ACH, or DeWI networks enabling independent operators to work as one access network without trust, blockchain is a powerful enabler of permissionless interconnection

  • Federation provides CDNs more content and traffic to deliver. Due to a burn-and-mint token equilibrium, demand for capacity and thus the token rewards provide incentives for broadcasters, ISP and private node participation in rebuilding the internet’s Multicast Backbone (MBone).

  • Smart contracts enable secure credentials exchange, capacity verification, and service delivery with zero trust. CDNs and nodes hold stakes and reputations that can be slashed for downtime or malicious behavior.