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As AI agents increasingly treat files as memory, context, and skills, controlling access to those files becomes critical. This blog explains how to use ERC-721 NFTs and Pinata's Private IPFS to securely gate private AI files without permissions or databases required.
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The crypto industry's evolution has been driven by one core challenge: settlement and trust. This blog explains why IPFS content addressing and immutable CIDs solve the mutable pointer problem and provide the chain of custody regulated finance demands.
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NFT platforms can shut down, but your NFTs don't have to disappear with them. Pinata's new NFT Backup feature makes it easy to back up NFTs, ensuring the underlying content stays available regardless of the platform or creator.
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Metadata, often described as “data about data”, is what gives content meaning. It defines what an asset is, how it’s displayed, and how it’s used. Metadata can be the most valuable data you publish, so why is it treated like an afterthought? CIDs, openness, and the metadata problem
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Files, Tokens, and the Structural Mistake Behind Blockchains Every system begins by resolving a constraint. Crypto emerged from friction. Money moved slowly. Trust depended on intermediaries. Records relied on institutions remaining solvent and coordinated. Bitcoin compressed these pressures into a single surface. Ownership, transfer, and verification lived together. The record
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Leveraging x402 and Pinata Pinata recently released our x402 implementation that lets our users monetize content via their dedicated gateways. This functionality opens up a whole new world of possibilities for Pinata users, and a big use case we're excited about is data feeds. Specifically data feeds that
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By migrating to Pinata, Edge & Node cut the time engineers spent on maintenance and troubleshooting from 8–10 hours a week down to about one hour. This freed their team to focus almost entirely on product development and advancing The Graph ecosystem.
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HTTP 402 ("Payment Required") has been part of the spec since 1997, reserved for future payment systems but never implemented. The x402 protocol finally defines how it works, standardizing how payments attach to content at the protocol level. Pinata is the first platform to ship x402 v1 in
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AI-generated fakes are flooding workplaces, from receipts to resumes. With verifiability built into IPFS, Pinata makes it possible to prove what’s real and protect companies and people from the rising cost of AI-powered fraud.
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