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IPFS has been the go-to offchain storage method for thousands of crypto and blockchain applications. Its combination of content addressability, immutability, and decentralization has made it ideal for referencing data that is too large to be stored onchain. While it does meet the needs of many applications, it does fall
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IPFS has become the default choice for offchain storage when building crypto and blockchain applications. Its ability to run as a distributed network and its content addressability has made it versatile and portable. Applications using IPFS generally need to be able to do two things: 1. Upload / pin files to
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IPFS has proven to be a tried and true approach for offchain data, and without a doubt the most popular. Despite all of this there is still room for improvement on the front of user hosted nodes. A distributed and sufficiently decentralized network is only achieved if more people participate
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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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