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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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At Pinata, we’ve seen our fair share of setups when it comes to delivering content on IPFS. People use our Dedicated IPFS Gateways to serve their files quickly and reliably across the globe. But every now and then, we see users trying to stack another CDN on top of
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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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Introduction The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is often seen as a fundamental building block of the decentralized web (Web3), enabling censorship-resistant, distributed storage. Unlike traditional cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud, IPFS does not rely on centralized data centers. Instead, it uses a peer-to-peer network where
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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
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Today, we’re excited to announce Webhooks, powered by our partner Svix. Webhooks allow developers to receive messages to their API server based on events that happen in their Pinata account. For example, a developer can set up a webhook that receives an event every time a file is uploaded
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As one of the leading providers of storage for NFT files, we have seen many different use cases and project types in the space. These range from individual artists to project collectives to DAOs to development studios. In all cases, it’s likely that whomever is launching the NFTs will
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