Pinata has presented 1 V-Sum technical briefing. Pinata manages off-chain data for blockchain applications — the infrastructure most NFT marketplaces (OpenSea, Rarible, and many others) quietly rely on. Kyle Tut, co-founder and CEO of Pinata, explains why on-chain storage is economically impractical (roughly $4M per GB on Ethereum) and how IPFS content identifiers (CIDs) give NFT creators tamper-proof references to their underlying files — you cannot silently swap out a CID the way you can a traditional Dropbox link. The demo covers Pinata's Dropbox-style upload UI, IPFS infrastructure run by Pinata to keep retrieval fast, dedicated per-customer gateways that serve IPFS content from your own domain (mypinata.cloud or your TLD) while preserving CID-level integrity, and Pinata's audit-trail approach for legitimately-updatable NFTs in gaming and interactive-art use cases.
Topics: Data Infrastructure, Developer Tools
V-Sum Seven
Presented by Kyle Tut & Justin Hunter
Pinata manages off-chain data for blockchain applications — the infrastructure most NFT marketplaces (OpenSea, Rarible, and many others) quietly rely on. Kyle Tut, co-founder and CEO of Pinata, explains why on-chain storage is economically impractical (roughly $4M per GB on Ether…