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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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Smart contracts emit events that contain critical information users need to interact with protocols. However, accessing this historical data presents several challenges: * RPC Limitations: Free-tier RPC providers like Alchemy often limit how many events you can query * Data Availability: Users need reliable access to complete event history to use many
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There are few languages that get a rouse out of developers more than Rust. When you strip away the memes and the lore behind this language, then you’ll find a robust ecosystem of developer apps, frameworks, even blockchains being built on Rust. In this tutorial, we’ll dip our
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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
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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
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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
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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
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