TL;DR - Watch the video at the end of this article!
In today’s article I’m gonna show you how to pin your Rarible NFT minted on the Ethereum blockchain, on IPFS using Pinata. I previously talked about the importance of doing this in my first article on how to mint NFTs on Rarible, and I asked you guys if you wanted me to make a next one teaching you how to pin your NFTs. After receiving many requests, I’ve finally decided to make this tutorial, walking you through the whole process.
Before we get into the actual process, I’d like to point out that, according to their Terms and Conditions, Rarible stores the NFT’s associated files (their metadata & artwork) on IPFS, with the caveat that the continued operation of this service cannot be guaranteed.
The good news is that, as Rarible stores those files on the IPFS network we can back them up! I’m now gonna show you how to do just that.
Rarible & OpenSea
The 1st step is to go to rarible.com and find the NFT you’d like to back up. Click on the “View on OpenSea” link to the right of the artwork.
When the link opens take note of the last few numbers at the end of the URL. This is the NFT’s token ID and it will be needed to locate the metadata file.
On the OpenSea website, scroll down to “Details” and there you’ll see the “Contract address”. This is the Rarible contract artists usually use to mint NFT’s, whenever they mint their NFT on the Rarible collection. By clicking on it, you’ll be directed to the Etherscan website.
Etherscan
Now click on the “Contract” link, and then on “Read Contract”. Scroll down until you find the TokenURI option. By expanding this section and typing in our token ID, we will find the metadata’s URL location.
Copy and paste this URL link in another tab and you’ll see the metadata of this NFT. You can save this page if you wish to save the metadata of your NFT.
Metadata & Artwork
Looking at the contents of this metadata, we see it has name, description, animation_url, image, external_url & attributes properties. Because this NFT has both an image (which is the cover picture) and the accompanying music, you can see 2 different links, but notice that both of them have the same string of letters and numbers. This is the CID hash of this NFT (its content identifier), and this is exactly what we are going to use to pin this NFT. So copy this hash.
You can now go to Pinata’s website, log in, and click on “Upload”. Choose the CID option and insert the file’s CID hash.
After doing that, click on “Search and Pin”. When you refresh the page, you can see that the file is pinned! You can even change its name, if you want! You now have backed up your NFT and have further control in preserving the artwork to pass onto future generations!
Final Thoughts
Before we finish this tutorial, I’d like to point out that this is only possible to do with NFTs that were actually minted on the blockchain, and not lazy minted. So if you used the “Free minting” option, you won’t find the IPFS link.
So now, let me know in the comment section below if you were able to back your NFT up by pinning it on IPFS using Pinata! If this information was useful for you or if you liked this content, don’t forget to like it and to subscribe to my Youtube channel!
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