Blast API Shutdown: A Turning Point for Web3 Developers

In the final days of October 2025, Bware Labs confirmed what many developers feared: Blast API, one of the most widely used RPC providers in Web3, is shutting down. The announcement, coming right before its planned acquisition by Alchemy, sent a ripple through the developer community. What seemed like a routine business move has turned into something deeper, a sign of how fragile yet essential the backbone of Web3 really is. Centralization by Necessity, Not by Design The RPC (Remote Procedure Call) layer is what allows decentralized apps to “talk” to blockchains source: https://beincrypto.com/blast-api-shutdown-web3-architecture-nownodes/