Pinata

✨ NEW Weekly Whimsy with Lindsey! ✨

– Explore how Socialure blends NFTs and blockchain ticketing 🎫
– Get hyped for Permissionless IV and a hackathon in NYC 🗽
– Learn how our new V3 API makes uploading to IPFS faster ⚡

Full episode: bit.ly/4ksKBW7

React Hooks for IPFS Uploads Pinata is always evolving its developer tooling to provide the best experience to users, and today we’re excited to announce React Hooks for Pinata! React is, without a doubt, one of the most popular…

Uploading files to IPFS from your React app just got way easier 💡

Meet Pinata’s new React Hooks - secure, seamless, and ready to drop into your front end.

Using x402 to Monetize AI Hardware Decentralized AI has been a hot topic over the last year or two. Our usage and dependence on AI increases each day, which also means it increases our reliance on central providers. Thankfully there…

What if your GPU could earn while you sleep? 😴💸

We used x402 to turn local AI hardware into a pay-to-use service - and even had it write part of this blog. Decentralized compute just got way more real.

The Future of P2P AI: How Crypto Middleware is Revolutionizing Inference Payments (This post was written entirely by AI—which is not something we do for our blog post—and paid for via crypto. See the how and why here) The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to a…

Running AI models locally? You’re gonna need inference payments that don’t suck.

Enter crypto middleware: secure, efficient, and built for the P2P AI era 🧠

✨ NEW Weekly Whimsy with Lindsey! ✨

– Dive into Alkimi’s ad exchange for Web3 transparency 📡
– Gear up for Permissionless IV in Brooklyn, NY 🎤
– See how x402 lets AI agents pay to pin files 🤖

Full episode: bit.ly/3Z5ati6

The V3 Pinata API Is Here We have been quietly building a brand new API from the ground up. Our previous API(s) have largely been unchanged since Pinata’s founding. Aside from adding new endpoints and features, we did not…

The V3 Pinata API is here 🚀

Faster uploads, higher rate limits, and no more bottlenecks. ✨ We rebuilt it from the ground up so your apps can scale without fighting your storage layer.

Pay to Pin on IPFS with x402 It’s no secret that AI agents are the talk of the tech world right now. Everyone is racing to find ways to integrate their systems to take advantage of AI bots making actions on behalf of users, but…

AI agents making API calls with just a wallet? It’s real now. 🧠💸

We built a server that lets you pay to pin on IPFS using x402 - no API key required, just USDC on Base.

Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of NFTs Are Still Unprotected 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…

Hundreds of millions of dollars in NFTs are still pointing to centralized storage or, worse, completely gone! If you care about what you own, check your metadata.

Here's what we found 👇

✨ NEW Weekly Whimsy with Lindsey! ✨

– Explore Horizen Labs' modular blockchain tools 🧱
– Get ready for Permissionless IV in Brooklyn 🎤
– Learn how to find and preserve top NFT collections on IPFS 📦

Full episode: bit.ly/3SJ3GqD

Storage isn’t boring when it’s decentralized, verifiable, and makes your app feel 10x smarter 😉

✨ NEW Weekly Whimsy with Lindsey! ✨

– Meet Kite Labs, building fast, secure Web3 apps ⚙️
– Catch us at @solana.com Accelerate in NYC next week 🗽
– Learn how to make smart contract event data more accessible 📡

Full episode: bit.ly/4kgbfAR

Me when someone actually reads the IPFS documentation before asking for help

Keep it decentralized 🤝 Keep it performant 🤝 Keep it yours

Build a product people trust.
Use infra that proves it. 💪

when someone says they “tested it locally” and it breaks in staging immediately

tired: DIY infra that eats dev hours

wired: using Pinata so I can focus on the app

me trying to figure out if I’m in the staging environment or if staging is actually production now

GM 😎 What are we building on Pinata this week, gang?

me after uploading a file to IPFS with Pinata and it Just Works™

the best part of decentralized storage?
when your content resolves from anywhere and you didn’t have to lift a finger to scale infra

How to Upload Files in Rust 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,…

Rust fans, this one’s for you! 🦀

Whether you're deep in the ecosystem or just Rusting for fun, we're showing you how to upload files to IPFS using Pinata’s API.
bit.ly/3EOiAIQ

the reason why I use Pinata instead of winging it with random storage hacks

✨ NEW Weekly Whimsy with Lindsey! ✨

– Explore how Gizmolab is powering dApp development 🧱
– Reminder about Solana Accelerate, hosted by OFFLINE 🍸
– Learn how to upload to IPFS using Python 🐍

Catch the full episode: bit.ly/42KPVxL

me explaining CID versioning at a party

there’s no better feeling than watching your IPFS folder upload finish and knowing it’s already pinned and ready to go 💪

finding someone to make worried eye contact with when a PM says “we’ll just use Dropbox for that” is essential to survival

when the lead dev asks if you tested your smart contract with real metadata

✨ NEW Weekly Whimsy with Lindsey! ✨

– Discover how Abyss creates an evolving trading card experience 💡
– Join us at @solana Accelerate, hosted by Offline XYZ 🍸
– Learn how to upload to IPFS using @golang.org 💻

Full episode: bit.ly/3GfTyCL