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Every team that creates a token wants the same outcome: a higher price. Tokens that are trusted are worth more, and trust comes from proof. The way to prove data in crypto is IPFS. IPFS turns offchain data into verifiable data through content identifiers (CIDs). A CID is a cryptographic
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Storing data on Ethereum isn’t just expensive, it’s luxury-real-estate expensive. That means when you see those 🙌 💎 filling up your X feed because crypto prices are going up, so are storage costs, and suddenly even a few kilobytes of on-chain data feel overpriced. On Ethereum, storage fees rise with
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IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) has become the go-to solution for storing and distributing content in a content-addressable and immutable way. But manually uploading files to IPFS every time you make changes to your project can be tedious. What if you could automate this process so that every time you push
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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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