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Creating light nodes using substrate-connect

I had the pleasure of joining the discussion about light nodes integrated into wallets hosted by Stefan Sopic from Parity Technologies. Many web3 folks are not quite aware that things are pretty centralised in our decentralised world. Decentralisation in reality MetaMask, behind the scenes, is using Infura infrastructure. Stefan made a solid point that the focal point of all the requests* MetaMask handles is in fact based on the East Coast, USA, through the same blockchain node provider. I