Welcome to our blog—a space where we share the latest updates, deep dives into our features, and stories from behind the scenes. Whether you’re here for tutorials, company news, or just curious about what we’re up to, you’ll find insights and inspiration that are worth bookmarking.
Filter by:
Finding the right programming language for the software you want to build can be quite the task. When it comes to the web, Javascript/Typescript dominate the playing field, but it has its own issues. We saw this in our own stack and took the steps to rewrite our API
Read more
Databases are one of the few pieces of infrastructure that have not been completely conquered in the blockchain space, and for a lot of good reasons. Trying to reinvent databases and how they can be stored onchain doesn’t generally end well. However, with our creation of IPCM a few
Read more
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the process by which developers can enhance AI model output by providing it useful context in addition to the user’s original prompt. If you were to imagine a teacher standing in front of a group of kindergartners asking them what the caterpillar did in
Read more
Have you ever found yourself wondering about merging real world assets with decentralization? No? Me neither—until almost two years ago, when a South Carolina house was sold as an NFT to transfer ownership from the seller to the buyer. This sale helped further some of the exploration around using
Read more
Feature-Rich & Time Saving So you're building something cool with AI — maybe it's a decentralized agent, maybe it's a compute marketplace, or maybe it's just a side project that's gotten out of hand (we see you). Either way, you’ve
Read more
Content delivery networks (CDNs) help accelerate the loading of content on the web. These networks are effectively distributed access points that cache (or store a temporary copy of) data as close to the person accessing the content as possible. This is what makes it possible to load a website hosted
Read more
Here at Pinata, one of our favorite things to do is support and attend hackathons. It’s part of our heritage as Pinata was born out of a hackathon in 2018, and ever since then the spirit of hacking apps and features together keeps going to this day. This month,
Read more
Control What Your Users Upload With Presigned URLs Pinata was the first IPFS provider to give developers the power and control to allow their users to upload from the frontend. This was important because it cuts down on latency and allows for larger file sizes. We improved upon this paradigm
Read more
While Pinata doesn’t offer an official Python SDK, a variety of community-built tools make it easy to upload content to IPFS using the language. But what if you want to write your own code without using a community SDK? Let’s do that together. Getting Started 1. Create a
Read more
