# DeFi's "adorable" cognitive dissonance — Uniswap runs on Amazon and Cloudflare

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-27
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con)
- **Watch at:** 00:18:29 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=1109s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2021-06-27-defi-s-adorable-cognitive-dissonance-uniswap-runs-75jf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "DeFi's "adorable" cognitive dissonance — Uniswap runs on Amazon and Cloudflare," Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con), 27 Jun 2021, 00:18:29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=1109s

## Quote — verbatim

> The cognitive dissonance we have in crypto, especially DeFi, is adorable... Look at the Uniswap architecture: you have smart contracts running on Ethereum, the indexer running on Graph — where are these \[Graph\] servers running? Amazon. The JavaScript application — where is this running? Amazon. The DNS — probably Amazon or probably Cloudflare. You're not decentralized — just own it... Unless three-fourths of your infrastructure is decentralized, you're not DeFi.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked how cloud/web3 powers DeFi; he wonders why Uniswap isn't on Handshake DNS and why Graph nodes and UIs aren't on Akash/Sia/Skynet. Refrain at [00:23:27]: "Open finance needs open cloud... being on Amazon, being on Cloudflare, you're not decentralized — prove me wrong."