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On June 12, 2025, Pinata suffered a widespread outage of multiple core product functionalities. From approximately 1:04 PM CDT until 3:26 PM CDT, the following Pinata services were partially or completely unavailable: * Uploads * File retrieval * Public IPFS Gateway These services are core to our customers’ day-to-day operation, so
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Pinata is always evolving its developer tooling to provide the best experience to users, and today we’re excited to announce React Hooks for Pinata! React is, without a doubt, one of the most popular client side frameworks for building apps, and users have always looked for the best way
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Decentralized AI has been a hot topic over the last year or two. Our usage and dependence on AI increases each day, which also means it increases our reliance on central providers. Thankfully there are more and more local AI models that are proving to be more capable. The only
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(This post was written entirely by AI—which is not something we do for our blog post—and paid for via crypto. See the how and why here) The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to a surge in demand for peer-to-peer (P2P) AI systems, where AI models
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We have been quietly building a brand new API from the ground up. Our previous API(s) have largely been unchanged since Pinata’s founding. Aside from adding new endpoints and features, we did not fundamentally change the design, performance, or ergonomics of the API. Until now. The V3 API
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It’s no secret that AI agents are the talk of the tech world right now. Everyone is racing to find ways to integrate their systems to take advantage of AI bots making actions on behalf of users, but one problem generally remains: APIs. As we’ve covered with our
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While working on a tutorial that allows people to back up NFT metadata and assets using their own Pinata accounts, thus replicating the assets across IPFS, I decided to analyze the top-1000 NFT collection all-time in terms of volume. I wanted to know a few things: 1. How many projects
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As blockchains evolve and gain popularity they always encounter the issue of scale. Each one has its own solution to the problem, and some chains are born as an effort to help scale Ethereum. One of those chains is Arbitrum, an optimistic rollup that’s fast, cheap, and boasts some
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NFTs are an interesting form factor in the sense that unlock traditional art, anyone can preserve the underlying assets. Usually. As long as the NFT metadata and assets are stored on IPFS, people can find this information and pin the files to IPFS themselves, increasing resiliency. Today, we’re going
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