ens VS nft.storage

Compare ens vs nft.storage and see what are their differences.

ens

Implementations for ENS core functionality: The registry, registrars, and public resolvers. (by ensdomains)

nft.storage

😋 Free decentralized storage and bandwidth for NFTs on IPFS and Filecoin. (by nftstorage)
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ens nft.storage
293 73
1,140 612
- 2.3%
0.0 5.5
6 months ago 3 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ens

Posts with mentions or reviews of ens. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-03.

nft.storage

Posts with mentions or reviews of nft.storage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-31.
  • I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2024
    That flagship app you are looking for seems to be https://nft.storage/ (by Protocol Labs).
  • Which data is currently decentralized stored on IPFS?
    5 projects | /r/ipfs | 4 May 2023
    NFT.Storage is a counterpart to Web3.Storage for a specific purpose: a place to safely store and save your NFTs. Many people use IPFS with their NFTs personally, or using other services as well
  • Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2023
    1. Sites like https://nft.storage/ (which I dislike as they have a silly bug with content types) or Pinata also got to IPFS.

    2. Good point.

  • Is Civitai down or only for me..?
    2 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 20 Jan 2023
    https://ipfs.tech/ combined with https://nft.storage/
  • How to ACTUALLY Become a Web3 Developer in 2023
    13 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2023
    Private gateways - using services such as Pinata or nft.storage for faster speed and higher availability, (again, or just use thirdweb as we discuss next).
  • Quick IPFS
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Dec 2022
    NFT Storage
  • Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2022
    IPFS is just a routing protocol, it is not a storage protocol itself. Pinning just lets other nodes know that you're hosting a particular file.

    Anyone can operate a Filecoin or Arweave node. They are compensated for allocating harddrive space on those nodes with FIL or AR tokens. AR has the unique feature of 200 year storage, so it is certainly more expensive than B2. But currently you can store a substantial amount of data on Filecoin for free: https://nft.storage/ (this is temporary promotional storage, but still, the pricing is competitive).

    They are stored on multiple nodes when you pay the fee.

    But of course, these services have a different purpose altogether than traditional cloud based infrastructure. They are designed to act as a censorship-resistant and long term archive. They don't have the low latency of CDNs or what have you. That's generally ok, because you will typically use FIL or AR as your archive layer and also publish the data to a cloud provider for hot storage access. It makes sense to use IPFS, then, so it can link all these sources together for the same content.

    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2022
    Of course there's no requirement to put all the data on the blockchain. Why would there be? I even consider torrent networks to be "web3" and they're not blockchains.

    It is not prohibitively expensive to store data on a blockchain, however. Arweave and Filecoin are the largest storage-centric blockchains. They each have multiple exabytes of data stored on them. Currently, you can store on Filecoin for free: https://nft.storage/ as a promotional thing, but even for larger data stores (https://web3.storage/) it's $10 / month for 120GiB and 8 cents per GiB after that.

    OpenSea itself is a marketplace with some centralized elements. That's fine. The core listing, selling and transfer logic is written as a series of smart contracts, however.

    They also compete with other marketplaces, some which are fully decentralized. They do not control or own the important data, which is the NFT itself.

    Some NFTs store all the metadata on chain, you can implement an NFT contract metadata as base64 encoded JSON (as you can see in a recent project https://etherscan.io/address/0x6f4388602c5dd6c593bf7c9cf3128..., plug in tokenId 2 into tokenURI to see). Some store them on IPFS with a hash based reference to the content. Some use centralized storage in a private database. All are valid use cases with varying applications. If you only want to own fully native-chain NFTs, feel free to filter based on that criteria.

  • INTRODUCTION TO WEB3.0
    3 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2022
    NFT.Storage is used for a long-term storage service
  • write json data
    2 projects | /r/ipfs | 17 Sep 2022
    storage provider can be your own ipfs node (kubo, js-ipfs) or some cloud service (nft.storage, pinata, infura, fleek, ...).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ens and nft.storage you can also consider the following projects:

web3.storage - DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin

ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

namecoin.org - Namecoin.org website in Jekyll -- send PR's to beta branch, then merge into master and gh-pages

flow-nft - The non-fungible token standard on the Flow blockchain

rainbow - 🌈‒ the Ethereum wallet that lives in your pocket

arweave - The Arweave server and App Developer Toolkit.

ens-app - Legacy ENS manager app

ipfs-car - 🚘 Convert files to content-addressable archives and back

opensea-js - TypeScript SDK for the OpenSea marketplace

unlock - Ʉnlock is a protocol for memberships built on a blockchain.