Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph's decentralized finance newsletter.

Although the markets may be downward and technical indicators built upon AWS malfunctioning, fear not immature degens, fundamental news and the spirit of Wagmi is abundant as e'er. And so, read on and detect all you need to know well-nigh the most important events of this week.

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AWS outage highlights the need for truly decentralized exchanges.

An Amazon Web Service outage this week produced pregnant cascading effects on the global supply concatenation and delivery industry, as well as hours-long operational disruptions to decentralized exchange dYdX and leading centralized exchanges Binance.US and Coinbase.

AWS is the earth'southward largest cloud service infrastructure, which provides an array of services, including network servers, storage capacities, remote computing and mobile development, to name a few.

Co-ordinate to information published this yr by Synergy Inquiry Group, the tech titan holds a 33% share of the deject infrastructure marketplace, followed by Microsoft and Google with xx% and ten%, respectively.

Details on the incident were largely undisclosed; however, it was stated on the company'southward service wellness page that "multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region," located in Northern Virginia, were experiencing connectivity issues.

In a Twitter argument shared on Tuesday, and into the early on hours of Midweek, dYdX spoke about enhanced latency across the network, likewise equally website loading failures, earlier disclosing its overreliance on the centralized servers, one of which is AWS.

Belittling data from DappRadar reveals that dYdX is the 13th largest decentralized finance application built on the Ethereum Network, registering approximately $1.5 billion in daily trading book. In September this year, dYdX achieved a historic transactional milestone in surpassing the volume of Coinbase over the grade of a single day, with $4.3 billion in comparison to $three.7 billion.

Decentralization is understood by many early crypto adopters to be a core component of the manufacture's architecture. Alongside security and scalability, the former makes up the so-chosen blockchain trilemma, a concept coined by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, to announce the necessity to sacrifice one side of the triad to experience the benefits of the other two.

In the globe of crypto exchanges, many opt to prioritize security and scalability in pursuit of mass adoption but, therefore, operate with largely centralized, Web 2.0-like structures.

Related: Decentralization vs. centralization: Where does the future lie? Experts respond

Joseph Delong wraps upwardly time as SushiSwap CTO

SushiSwap chief technology officeholder Joseph Delong, announced his immediate deviation from the decentralized exchange this week, pledging to honorably pass the proverbial baton onto the adjacent leader, aslope necessary accounting and data data.

Delong explained the reasoning behind his conclusion in a candid Twitter thread, citing internal conflicts and a lack of unified vision for the project, stating:

​​"I wish Sushi the best and am saddened that Sushi is so imperiled within and without. The chaos that is occurring now is unlikely to outcome in a resolution that will exit the DAO as much more than of a shadow than it in one case was without a radical structural transformation."

Delong has feel working in the Web three.0 space as a blockchain engineer and developer. Formerly employed as a senior software engineer at ConsenSys, Delong took up the position of chief engineering science officeholder at SushiSwap at the commencement of 2022 post-obit Chef Nomi's infamous exodus in the months prior.

Over the past yr, Delong has guided SushiSwap to the 12th ranked position in nominal total value locked value (TVL) with $2.85 billion only also suffered obstacles with stringent whitelisting acceptance on layer-two protocol Optimism, likewise every bit a $three-one thousand thousand supply chain exploit on launchpad MISO and, more recently, a rumored vulnerability in its smart contracts to the value of $one billion.

Related: SushiSwap denies reports of billion-dollar bug

Coinbase opens cryptography library to promote innovation

Ane of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase, this week announced the launch of an open-source library-themed platform, titled Kryptology, designed to provide developers with a suite of "secure, audited, and piece of cake-to-use application programme interfaces (APIs)."

In an official blog post, Coinbase outlined its intentions for the library in fostering the continued development of this long-standing technology:

"While enabling farther innovation is our primary goal, we also aim for Kryptology to elevate the standard for what is considered to be a robust, usable cryptographic library."

Related: Coinbase announces back up for hardware wallets, starting with Ledger

Token performances

Analytical data reveals that DeFi's total value locked has decreased 11.iii% across the week to a figure of $143.95 billion.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView reveals DeFi'south top 100 tokens past market capitalization exceeding bearish across the terminal vii days.

Terra (LUNA) was the sole gainer of the meridian 100 this week with a mere 1.81%. Not the most memorable technical calendar week for DeFi, let'southward put it that style, just unsurprising considering the wider context of the crypto-broad market pullback.

Interviews, features and other absurd stuff

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Thanks for reading our summary of this week's virtually impactful DeFi developments. Join usa again next Friday for more stories, insights and pedagogy in this dynamically advancing space.