What is Pinata?
If you have never heard of Pinata you are probably wondering - what's inside the pinata? Candy, Coins, NFT's?! Well, let's find out! Here is a brief dive into the Pinata rabbit hole!
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What is Pinata?
Pinata allows creators and developers to build decentralized NFT media management service on top of their IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) infrastucture. Similar to servies like QuickNode, Infura, and Web3.Storage. Benefits for creators and developers building on Pinata is that you are able to host, manage, and store files on your choice of blockchain. This gives all the power to you and how you want to share your content! Here are some of Pinata's tools availabe to creators and developers:
- NFT Media Management
- IPFS uploads
- Build in CDN (content delivery network)
- Gateways
- Unlockable Content
- Previews for social media
- Short URL's
- Image and Video Optimization
How to build on Pinata:
Web3 is an immensely growing ecosystem. One of the best ways for you to learn and build is from SDK's (Software Development Kits). As someone with an unothrodox web2 engineering background, civil engineering, SDK's have been critical for my growth in web3 development. Pinata has made it easy for creators and developers to build by releasing their own SDK's. Here are the current SDK's available:
Full list on Pinata's website
Wrapping up:
Although I am not walking you through a building tutorial on how to build on Pinata. Please do not let that discourage you from exploring Pinata! I highly reccommend creators and developers to explore Pinata's medium where multiple tutorials are available. I hope you enjoyed this deep dive into Pinata!
Please feel free to reach out to me for questions, comments, or concerns via Twitter: @CryptoBonsai33