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Base AppChains enable high-throughput applications to run on dedicated rollups with near-instant withdrawals. But with great speed and specialized blockspace comes an equally important challenge—secure, resilient, and tamper-proof data storage. Below we’ll explore why IPFS (in combination with Pinata as a pinning service) is an ideal data availability
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Running IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) locally, on a Raspberry Pi for example, is relatively straightforward. You can even deploy an IPFS node to a cloud provider without much difficulty. We wrote about doing this as part of having a remote node that syncs with Pinata as your persistence layer. This
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Just about everyone building products uses AI to help debug, learn, and build. When done right, this is a superpower and it should be celebrated. However, it can be difficult to build when an API has new features and endpoints that the LLM is not aware of. And things are
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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 users can store
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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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