Interview: Flavian Manea, CEO of Bware Labs on Decentralized APIs and Blast Testnet |…

As the adoption of web3 technologies continues to rise, Bware Labs, a web3 infrastructure solutions company recently announced the launch of its Blast testnet. With Blast, the company aims to offer what it considers to be the fastest and the most reliable decentralized API solution in the market. To know more about Bware Labs and their Blast offering, we caught up with Flavian Manea, the CEO of Bware Labs and asked him a few questions.

One among the 5 co-founders, Flavian has over 10 years of experience in software development which he has put to use in various companies including Poker 888, Intel and Luxoft. In this interview, he speaks about Bware Labs, decentralized blockchain APIs, the ongoing Blast testnet phases and their learnings from it as well as the future they envision for web3 with Bware Labs and Blast playing a pivotal role in it.

Q: Let us start with some background. Can you tell us more about Bware Labs and how it empowers web3 development?

A: Simply put, by offering Web3 developers a suite of infrastructure services that can help them build dApps faster, easier and with less costs, and also by managing certain parts of infrastructure for various blockchain projects. We created Bware Labs with the purpose to help builders on their path toward Web3 and turn it into a highway.

Usually, in order to access a blockchain network, developers need to deploy their own nodes that can expose API endpoints through which they can perform certain activities on a blockchain network. But the node infrastructure needs to be maintained and scaled as the project gets successful.  They would need different sets of skills and resources to keep it up and running. So, if one wants to focus on building, without the hurdles of creating an entire infrastructure cluster around their project just for APIs, they can use an API provider.

Until now, our main focus was on our decentralized API platform, Blast. Through it, we aim to provide decentralized API access for a wide range of blockchain networks on mainnet and testnet. The platform offers a free plan and public API endpoints, suitable for a blockchain developer who is just beginning to build his dApp on one or more networks, as well as paid and customizable subscriptions for those who are way ahead with their projects and have much higher traffic needs.

Q: Please share more information about Decentralized Blockchain APIs in general and how it is going to benefit the community.

A: By relying on a decentralized infrastructure provider, one can eliminate single points of failure that can damage the entire project, and make sure that in case something goes wrong in one region, the work is being rerouted to different regions and the users can still access and use the product. Through decentralization we aim to eliminate centralized controllers and give developers access to more reliable decentralized infrastructure services with improved speed, availability, uptime, and a democratization of access to resources and responsibilities.

Q: Tell us more about Blast. How is it different from other decentralized API providers?

A: The main differentiator between Blast and other API providers is our focus on both decentralization and high performance.

In the current market, you can find one or the other but it is really difficult to have both. With Blast, we aim to solve this issue and provide the fastest and most reliable API solution on the market without sacrificing decentralization.

The technical innovations developed by our engineering team will allow the platform to automatically monitor and enforce quality on the part of Node Providers joining the platform. Thus we will be able to guarantee the platform’s current performance even after the decentralization is complete. Providers will be able to join in a permissionless way, but at the same time, they will be required to prove their service quality both to finish the registration process and to remain active…