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If you’ve been following Farcaster—the decentralized social network that gained a lot of interest in 2024 when they launched Frames—then you’re surely aware of Warpcast, the largest and most popular client. Warpcast is built by the team behind the protocol and is generally a tool designed
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I previously wrote about how to turn docs and knowledge bases into an AI-powered chat app, but I realized the app was missing key context found in the blog posts we publish. Many of our blog posts are technical tutorials which provide rich context that will be useful for any
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One of the key questions when building a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain solution is: Where do you store your data? For many teams, that question leads to the idea of spinning up a new data availability chain that has its own nodes, validators, and economic model. This is unneeded complexity.
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The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is the most well-known and most used of the decentralized file storage protocols. It was created by Protocol Labs, the same company that designed and launched Filecoin. While Filecoin can complement IPFS, it introduces a consensus layer that significantly increases complexity and cost. Similarly, Arweave
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OK, maybe sucked is too strong a word, but we definitely lost our way there for a bit. Our original API was purpose built to be as easy to use as possible. Our co-founder and CTO hated the complexity of a lot of the APIs he was using, and he
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Optimism and OP Stack-based rollups enable high-throughput applications to run on scalable Layer 2 chains with fast finality. But alongside speed and specialized blockspace comes an essential challenge—secure and censorship-resistant data availability (DA). Below, we explore why IPFS (in combination with Pinata as a pinning service) offers a robust
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Base AppChains enable high-throughput applications to run on dedicated rollups with near-instant withdrawals. But with great speed and specialized blockspace comes an equally important challenge—secure, resilient, and tamper-proof data storage. Below we’ll explore why IPFS (in combination with Pinata as a pinning service) is an ideal data availability
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Running IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) locally, on a Raspberry Pi for example, is relatively straightforward. You can even deploy an IPFS node to a cloud provider without much difficulty. We wrote about doing this as part of having a remote node that syncs with Pinata as your persistence layer. This
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Just about everyone building products uses AI to help debug, learn, and build. When done right, this is a superpower and it should be celebrated. However, it can be difficult to build when an API has new features and endpoints that the LLM is not aware of. And things are
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