I noticed that public ipfs is used to host image files for NFTs. NFT marketplace websites serve the images quickly enough.
I wonder how perkeep would perform in that situation.
I wonder how perkeep would perform in that situation.
OpenSea uses Google Images!
As others have noted no matter what these marketplaces all cache the tried and proven Web2 way with the usual large CDN providers, etc.
But I bet a large breakdown of that is spammier NFTs that use string concatenation and svg rendering such as MLOOT
Also of the HTTPS I bet much of that is Pinata or Cloudflare which are just pinning services for IPFS
In any case I’m actually impressed by these numbers and expect them to further improve away from HTTPS
For what it's worth I've spoken with the creator of this project. They're well aware many of the NFTs hosted on IPFS have an HTTPS URI pointing to a gateway. That's easy to parse and they included these results as IPFS.
There's also Arweave and various other decentralized approaches. Actually Arwave is interesting because if all of the Ethereum NFT assets were added to Arweave it would increase the size of bytes on Arweave by 50%...
Also, many of the IPFS pinning providers host their entire infra on AWS or some other centralized big cloud provider. Makes sense but further points to how hard truly decentralized really is (see Arweave stats).
> They're well aware many of the NFTs hosted on IPFS have an HTTPS URI pointing to a gateway. That's easy to parse and they included these results as IPFS.
Glad to see! Can that info be added to the blog? Yeah I think the paid pinning services should only be a stopgap solution. I think purchasers of NFTs should pin their own and someone should make it easy for them to do that. I bet you could include code for that within the NFT classes, just like how people ram dynamic svg code into them. For collections like PFPs I think projects can incentivize staking+pinning for extra rewards like slowly over time minting an additional nft for people that do it, or separate nft/token for a parallel collection. (Like if mutant ape serum was only claimable by ape holders that helped pin the collection on ipfs)
I need to look at Airweave closer!
But yes this will improve the nft concept very well, and glad to see the path for improvement is happening so fast, money chasers are following the same tutorials.
[1] https://ipfs.io/