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Best Practises for Infura API Key Management

Best Practises for Infura API Key Management

This article outlines the various techniques Infura supports to help keep your API credentials safe. It covers best practices for managing credentials and tokens, including API keys, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), and API key secrets for secure verification.

Welcome to Infura's Upgraded IPFS Platform

Welcome to Infura's Upgraded IPFS Platform

Infura announces a major upgrade to its IPFS service, enhancing data storage and retrieval speeds. This upgrade includes a revised garbage collection policy and temporarily limits new IPFS Project keys, ensuring a seamless transition for users.

A Developer's Tale: Building a Database with IPFS

A Developer's Tale: Building a Database with IPFS

In this blog, explore the fascinating journey of building the dapp "Polis" and its IPFS-powered database inspired by ancient Greece's Polis city.

Building a web3 RPG Part 1: Deploy an ERC-1155 Multi-Token Smart Contract

Building a web3 RPG Part 1: Deploy an ERC-1155 Multi-Token Smart Contract

Learn how to deploy a simple ERC-1155 smart contract using MetaMask, Infura, Linea and Hardhat to power a web3 RPG.

Scam Alert: Beware of marketing scam to convert ETH to ETH 2.0

We recently heard from a few users who reported having received phishing emails that claimed to have originated from Infura. These hackers targeted victims by impersonating Infura and offering a malicious ETH2 staking service with high rewards. Infura does not currently offer any staking products and this is a scam.

What is WebSocket?

What is WebSocket?

Have you ever wondered what WebSocket is, and how to use Infura to make WebSocket requests? Learn more about key aspects of WebSocket, including the problems it solves, how it works, and how to use Infura with WebSocket.

Infura Launches Support for Optimistic Ethereum

Product & Features

Infura Launches Support for Optimistic Ethereum

As the demand for scaling solutions grows, so too does our desire to support developers in accessing them. With that, we are excited to announce that we are now live with support for the Optimism Layer 2 scaling solution in time for the Optimism launch on Uniswap. Optimistic Ethereum uses

Migrate Your Files to Infura's New IPFS Service In 3 Easy Steps

If you are an existing Infura IPFS user or are currently self-hosting your data and want to migrate to the new Infura IPFS service, this tutorial is your step-by-step guide. The new Infura IPFS service is more reliable, performant and comes with a bunch of exciting features: * A project dashboard

New and Improved IPFS

Today we are very pleased to announce the private beta launch of a new and improved IPFS. Over the last four years, Infura has provided developers with a simplified access path to Ethereum and IPFS. In setting up the first public IPFS APIs and Gateway alongside our Ethereum API, we

通过 3 个简单的步骤将您的文件迁移到 Infura 新的 IPFS 服务上

如果您是现有的 Infura IPFS 用户或目前正在自托管您的数据，并想迁移到新的 Infura IPFS 服务上，本教程将会按步骤教您实现。新的 Infura IPFS 服务更可靠，性能更强，并有一系列令人兴奋的新功能。 * 一个包含所有重要统计信息 (使用量、存储大小等) 的 project 操作面板。 * Pinning/Unpinning API * 定期在后台将您的文件发布到 IPFS P2P 网络中，保证您的内容可以在全球范围内被访问。第1步 - 创建您的 Infura IPFS Project 访问 https://infura.io 注册一个新的帐户 (如果您还没有)，并按照说明创建您的 IPFS project。注册后，您将被重定向到设置页面，在那里您可以找到您的凭证：PROJECT_ID + PROJECT_

Build a Flash Loan Arbitrage Bot on Infura, Part II

Build a Flash Loan Arbitrage Bot on Infura, Part II

In our last post, we went over the three main concepts behind our bot: arbitrage, contract-based transactions and optimistic transfer. In this post, we’ll walk through how to structure a program that can watch for and execute on profitable arbitrage trades.

Build a Flash Loan Arbitrage Bot on Infura, Part I

Tutorials Featured

Build a Flash Loan Arbitrage Bot on Infura, Part I

Some of the underlying concepts behind flash loans, flash swaps, and optimistic transfers on Ethereum with code examples from Uniswap and Aave. In part 2, we’ll show you how to build your own Ethereum bot, running on Infura, executing profitable arbitrage opportunities using flash loans.

Ethereum JavaScript Libraries: web3.js vs. ethers.js (Part II)

Ethereum JavaScript Libraries: web3.js vs. ethers.js (Part II)

In this tutorial, we will walk you through a simple dApp to demonstrate how to send a transaction using both web3.js and ethers.js via Infura’s APIs.

Getting Started with Infura's IPFS Service

Getting Started with Infura's IPFS Service

How to get started with Infura’s IPFS service: A tutorial on how to use our IPFS API to pin data across the IPFS network, as well as upload and access files

开始使用 Infura 的 IPFS 服务

开始使用 Infura 的 IPFS 服务

如何开始使用 Infura 的 IPFS 服务: 本教程包括如何用我们的 IPFS API 在 IPFS 网络中 pin 您的数据，以及如何上传和访问文件

Bringing the Best Blockchain Infrastructure and Developer Tools to Market

Infura Bringing the Best Blockchain Infrastructure and Developer Tools to Market through the ConsenSys software business.

Infura has officially been acquired by ConsenSys

Infura has officially been acquired by ConsenSys

In early 2016 new Ethereum developers were exploring the possibilities of Ethereum and smart contract driven applications. While the promise of Web3 unlocked many opportunities for these developers, a familiar infrastructure problem from Web2 persisted.

Product & Features

Introducing Faster Ethereum Logs and Events

An important part of writing a good decentralized application on Ethereum is knowing when state inside a smart contract changes. That’s why Ethereum has always had “logs and events”, two names for the same thing: the ability for your smart contract to emit data during a transaction.

Infura Dashboard Transition Update

Product & Features

Infura Dashboard Transition Update

As previously announced, accessing Infura will begin requiring a Project ID generated from the new Infura Dashboard. If you are using Infura and have not yet migrated your project, please take the time to do so now.

Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement

Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement

** Infura will support the Constantinople Postponement and is actively working on updating its infrastructure to adjust to this new release. Read more about the Constantinople delay below or stay updated via twitter at @infura_io. ** UPDATE [Jan 16]: “We’ve been coordinating with others in the community over the last

Infura’s signer and bootnode on Rinkeby

Since its founding over a year ago, Infura has had a mandate to support the Ethereum community, to help it grow. We’re pleased to announce that as part of this commitment, we are now running a signer (aka authority) and a bootnode on the Rinkeby test network. Rinkeby is

When there are too many pending transactions

Once up a time, Ethereum blocks had plenty of room. Usually they had a few or even zero transactions, and once in a while you’d see a block…