Interplanetary File System and Polygon Studios have announced a partnership to advance the development of NFTs, games and the metaverse. To kick off the collaboration, the two ecosystems launched NFT tutorials , grant grants , and a hackathon program designed to help Polygon developers integrate NFT projects with the Interplanetary File System.
Originally conceived as a secure second layer solution to problems such as high gas fees and slow block verification times on popular blockchains such as Ethereum, Polygon has now gained blockchain game developers And the attention of NFT projects. To cater to this growing segment, Polygon Studios was established to incubate and support Web 3.0 based game developers and NFT projects.
Similarly, more and more projects in the Play-to-earn (P2E) and NFT fields are choosing to use the Interplanetary File System for content addressing and the Interplanetary File System for provable decentralized storage, such as in media such as video to store metadata.
Combining the durability of the Interplanetary File System with the scalability of Polygon opens up new use cases for developers.
In August 2021, we announced that Polygon will provide free storage opportunities for projects built on the Polygon Bridge, an interplanetary file system developed by the Textile team. The bridge enables developers and Polygon application users to easily store data from any Polygon address on the Interplanetary File System network without requiring any new registrations, or API keys.
Interplanetary File System and Polygon are also jointly organizing the Mars Hackathon, which runs from August 2021 to November 2021. The virtual hackathon brought together more than 1,500 developers to build new applications using the Interplanetary File System-Polygon bridge, including use cases such as storage, metaverse, entertainment, digital art, and more.
Notable projects from the hackathon include Blockspace, a decentralized file storage and sharing platform built on the Interplanetary File System, which mirrors traditional cloud providers like Google Drive, and Slick, a decentralized Patreon alternative.
NFT Minting and Storage Tutorial
for Polygon Developers Launched a tutorial for Polygon developers on how to mint NFTs using the Polygon blockchain and store them on the Interplanetary File System via NFT.Storage.
This tutorial walks you through the creation and deployment of standardized smart contracts, storing metadata and assets on the Interplanetary File System via the NFT.Storage API, and minting NFTs into your own wallet on Polygon.
$5,000 grant for eligible Polygon projects integrating Interstellar Filesystem Projects in the Polygon ecosystem that integrate with Interplanetary Filesystem (and services such as NFT.storage, Estuary, Web3.storage, Interstellar Filesystem-Polygon Bridge) are: Eligible for a grant of $5,000.