Infura explained what happened via social media, apologizing for the troubles derived from this incident, attributing this to a misconfiguration resulting from new sanction directives.
Infura, the service provider of Metamask, one of the most used smart contracts-based wallets, blocked the access of Venezuelans to the Ethereum blockchain. Reports about this happening circulated on social media, attributing it to the existence of sanctions that the infrastructure provider might have applied to Venezuela.
However, Infura later stated this was the result of a misconfiguration issue related to other sanctions.Infura, one of the most used service providers offering endpoint services to wallet programmers, left Venezuelan users without the ability to access their funds using Metamask. The first reports about Metamask not working with Venezuelan IPs saw users speculate on social media that the suspension may have to do with a new round of sanctions against the country.