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One of the key questions when building a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain solution is: Where do you store your data? For many teams, that question leads to the idea of spinning up a new data availability chain that has its own nodes, validators, and economic model. This is unneeded complexity.
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The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is the most well-known and most used of the decentralized file storage protocols. It was created by Protocol Labs, the same company that designed and launched Filecoin. While Filecoin can complement IPFS, it introduces a consensus layer that significantly increases complexity and cost. Similarly, Arweave
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OK, maybe sucked is too strong a word, but we definitely lost our way there for a bit. Our original API was purpose built to be as easy to use as possible. Our co-founder and CTO hated the complexity of a lot of the APIs he was using, and he
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Optimism and OP Stack-based rollups enable high-throughput applications to run on scalable Layer 2 chains with fast finality. But alongside speed and specialized blockspace comes an essential challenge—secure and censorship-resistant data availability (DA). Below, we explore why IPFS (in combination with Pinata as a pinning service) offers a robust
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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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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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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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