[Spike] Use Pokt network as an infura replacement

[cammellos]

As a developer I want to use Pokt instead of Infura As I want to use decentralized technologies

Description

Assess the viability of using https://www.pokt.network/ as an infura replacement

We should start from using their gateway, and making sure that the app works as expected, later, we can move to https://github.com/status-im/status-react/issues/13591

[cammellos]

I have created an application on https://dashboard.pokt.network/ Selected the ethereum mainnet and mainnet archival, testing their gateway as it should be just a swapping of the URLs. I have plugged in the archival URL in the application, and basic functionalities seems to be working, but I am currently not able to retrieve transaction history.

It fails with:

t=2020-10-27T06:32:26+0000 lvl=eror msg="failed to get next batch" error="Post \"https://eth-archival.gateway.pokt.network/v1/[redacted]\": context deadline exceeded"

Investigating

[guylouis]

closing this because it's not the short term plan anymore

[rasom]

Tested, there is no support for archival requests on goerli network yet.