Pinata Partners With OpenSea To Provide Powerful Tools for Digital Creators
Tackling the three most crucial needs for the marketplace, efficiency, uptime, and data storage.
OpenSea has partnered with Web3 media solutions platform Pinata, to enable its marketplace with powerful tools for its digital creators.
Pinata is run on IPFS, a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradable, resilient, and more open.
Altogether, the platform is helping to provide upgraded efficiency, uptime, and data storage to OpenSea.
OS needed a media infrastructure to serve content fast + efficiently to give NFT creators + collectors a beautiful experience.
That’s where we stepped in.
Built on @IPFS, Pinata solves these challenges -see how: https://t.co/M64GpSWoFz#PoweredByPinata pic.twitter.com/AlJnPQd293
— Pinata ? (@pinatacloud) October 27, 2022
Blind Folds Off
One of Pinata’s core strengths is its extremely fast built-in CDN or content delivery network. The CDN is supported by over 200 server locations around the world and enables platforms to serve out content in “less time than it takes to load a YouTube video,” according to its website.
Other benefits of the solutions platform include the ability to integrate on any blockchain, with some of the featured chains being Ethereum, Tezos, Cardano, Wax, Solana, Avalanche, and many more.
Its superpower is IPFS though (Interplanetary File System), which acts as a distributed file storage protocol and allows computers all over the globe to store and share files — creating a massive peer-to-peer network.
By providing its clients with a dedicated gateway to IPFS, clients can request content at fast rates, saving them bandwidth, time, and money.
The Partnership
In the case of OpenSea, Pinata provides all of the above services and more. Some of the other capabilities it has include optimized unlockable content tools for devs and non-technical creatives, social content preview capabilities, and a built-in URL shortening tool.
Pinata’s preview capabilities for individual files allow its clients to brand and share NFTs on Twitter, Discord, Telegram, or wherever else they’d like.
“Our partnership with OpenSea began in early 2022. With so many users, collections, and transactions relying on an efficient marketplace experience, OpenSea needed an infrastructure that could support their content, and load them fast and efficiently while offering creators and collectors a beautiful experience,” wrote the solutions platform on the partnership.
To help build and scale OpenSea’s creator-focused marketplace, Pinata has provided support in three key areas including Efficiency, Uptime, and Space.
Efficiency through retrieving data at speeds people are used to in Web2, Uptime through allowing users to access collections and make transactions anywhere at any time, regardless of what device they are on, and Space by providing access to large amounts of stored metadata without management complexities.
One of the most recent and significant NFT projects to be “Powered By Pinata,” was Sir Anthony Hopkins release with OrangeComet.
See what @OrangeCometNFT has up their sleeve with this mind-bending project by Anthony Hopkins. Minting on @opensea this Thursday! ☄️ Details ↓ https://t.co/lV1s4NjpCO
— Pinata ? (@pinatacloud) October 11, 2022
Pinata recently shared that the reason the partnership between the two has been successful is that OpenSea, like itself, believes in the power of creators.
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