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property is especially important because this is the actual pointer we mentioned before. It points to your asset which is hosted on IPFS.ipfs://
and not https://someurl.com
. This is for good reason. Blockchain data is permanent. If you put a link to your asset in the form of some URL owned by Pinata or any other company, you run the risk of that URL not being available at some point in the future. How many sites use to exist on the web in the 90s and 2000s that no longer do?ipfs://YOUR_CID
pointer. Most platforms can resolve this format, and even if they can't, it's easy to pull out the CID and load the content using a public gateway like the main IPFS gateway, for example.asset_metadata.json
. You can call it whatever you'd like, but you need to make sure to save it with the .json
file extension.ipfs://YOUR_METADATA_CID