Head of Developer Relations
Hackathons go deep into Pinata’s culture of creativity and problem solving, all the way back to when the company was founded in 2018 at ETHBerlin. It’s one of the reasons we try to visit and sponsor as many as we can, especially across colleges and universities. This weekend,
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If you’ve been in the blockchain space, then chances are you’ve heard of ENS. It’s by far the most popular onchain identity protocol that allows you to provide a name for your address. When your friend wants to send you crypto, they don’t have the memorize
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IPFS has been used for many different kinds of applications, but the most popular by far is NFT metadata and assets. From the dawn of NFTs, there was a need to have offchain blockchain storage that could be held accountable, distributed across nodes, and verifiable for content integrity. NFTs took
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Over the years IPFS has had one particularly difficult challenge: dynamic content. One of the main reasons to use IPFS is its immutability and content addressability, but there are the occasional moments when an app needs dynamic content. IPNS (InterPlanetary Name Service) has been the go-to method for dynamic and
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A few weeks ago we published a post on Private NFTs and how you can build them using Pinata’s Private IPFS API. It’s a working solution for token gating extra files that are attached to the NFT’s metadata, which enables a lot of possibilities for crypto developers.
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If you have been in the blockchain and crypto space, then there is a chance you've heard of IPFS and how it's used for offchain storage. In many ways, it's a perfect pairing: content on IPFS gets a hash that can be verified, it
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Over the past few years, IPFS has become the default file network for offchain storage. When you combine immutable files with an immutable blockchain ledger, you get a powerful combination. While immutability is key to IPFS, it has also become one of its downsides. There are many crypto and blockchain
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It’s an undeniable fact that blockchain technology has revolutionized what it means to have decentralized computation. Bitcoin introduced an immutable and cryptographic ledger, enabling an autonomous financial infrastructure. Ethereum took it to another level with the invention of the Ethereum Virtual Machine that can run compiled byte code on
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JSON data is one of the most crucial file types when it comes to offchain storage. NFTs and other Web3 applications often utilize a Unified Resource Identifier (URI) where critical data is stored, and this is almost always in the form of a JSON file. It’s arguably the more
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