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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
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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,
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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
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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
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We have lots of developers who look for examples of how to upload files to Pinata using React, however there is one critical issue with that approach: API key security. React is a client side framework, which means that if you use an API key inside, then it’s going
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The Future of AI Data Security AI models are only as good as the data they’re built on. Bad data = bad predictions, security nightmares, and lost trust. The problem? Traditional cloud storage tied to a single server is a ticking time bomb—centralized control, zero transparency, and one provider
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If you’ve been following Farcaster—the decentralized social network that gained a lot of interest in 2024 when they launched Frames—then you’re surely aware of Warpcast, the largest and most popular client. Warpcast is built by the team behind the protocol and is generally a tool designed
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One of the most requested features we’ve received at Pinata has been webhooks, and recently we delivered them through our partner Svix. They allow you to listen to events that happen on your Pinata account and send a payload to your server, enabling some pretty dynamic applications. Pinata’s
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For anyone building and scaling applications, managing data efficiently is a top priority. Traditionally, this means relying on centralized cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud to store, distribute, and serve content. While effective, this model comes with challenges—scalability costs, single points of failure, and reliance on a few
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