Using Crypto NFTs — Proposals around Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) are currently being debated within the NCAA as well as state and national legislators. NIL, at its simplest, is the idea that college athletes should be able to earn income from endorsements and other business opportunities. The majority of the conversation with NIL centers…

How to Submarine an NFT with IPFS — What if you could create an NFT that doesn’t publicize the digital asset it represents until after it’s purchased? This is a question we’ve been thinking about frequently at Pinata. In this blog, we will walk you through a proof of concept to create an NFT that “submarines” the digital…

Using IPFS and Rarible — At the end of this blog, you will have learned how to: 1) Upload your audio file to IPFS with Pinata 2) Mint an NFT for your audio file with Rarible to sell on marketplaces This tutorial assumes that you have a basic understanding of creating audio files, how to…

Purpose-Built, Secure, and Ad-Free — Why is it so difficult for Web3 creators to store and manage their NFT files? Simple, it’s because we still live in a Web2 world. In this post, we will discuss the 3 major problems with using Web2 file systems for NFTs. …

Using MagicaVoxel, IPFS, and Rarible — At the end of this blog, you will have learned how to: 1) Export and render your voxel using MagicaVoxel 2) Upload your voxel to IPFS with Pinata 3) Mint an NFT for your voxel…

Using MagicaVoxel, Pinata, and IPFS — In this blog, I will show you how to create a .vox file for Cryptovoxels using MagicaVoxel, Pinata, and IPFS. If you’d prefer to watch how to create a .vox file, please watch the video above! You can visit Pinata’s Cryptovoxel spot on Proxima island here: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=N@250W,24U,572N Download MagicaVoxel The first…

Is Da Vinci Responsible for Maintaining the Mona Lisa? — Who is responsible for maintaining NFT data not stored on a blockchain? This is a question we’ve ran into frequently at Pinata working with creators creating crypto collectibles, crypto art, and crypto games. The current assumption is that the company, the artist, or the game that created the NFT is…

And Why They Are Useful — The Interplanetary File System, or IPFS, is a distributed storage network made up of “nodes” or computers all over the world where people and apps are storing and sharing data. When an IPFS node retrieves data from the network it keeps a local cache of that data for future usage…

Buying and Selling Data — IPFS is well-suited to handle the buying and selling of data. …