Justin Hunter - Pinata
How To Use Github Actions With IPFS
IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) has become the go-to solution for storing and distributing content in a content-addressable and immutable way. But manually uploading files to IPFS every time you make changes to your project can be tedious. What if you could automate this process so that every time...
Pinata Outage - June 12, 2025
On June 12, 2025, Pinata suffered a widespread outage of multiple core product functionalities. From approximately 1:04 PM CDT until 3:26 PM CDT, the following Pinata services were partially or completely unavailable:
- Uploads
- File retrieval
- Public IPFS Gateway
These services are core to our customers’ day-to-day...
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 surge in demand for peer-to-peer (P2P) AI systems, where...
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 fundamentally change the design, performance, or ergonomics of the API.
Until now.
The V3 API...
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 collection all-time in terms of volume. I wanted to know a few things:
- How...
Find And Backup Top NFT Collections On IPFS
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...
Making Smart Contract Event Data More Accessible With IPFS
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...
What is RAG and Why Does it Matter?
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...
The IPFS CDN: Making IPFS As Fast As The Modern Web
Content delivery networks (CDNs) help accelerate the loading of content on the web. These networks are effectively distributed access points that cache (or store a temporary copy of) data as close to the person accessing the content as possible. This is what makes it possible to load a website hosted...