We architect and develop custom Solidity and Rust smart contracts that form the immutable backbone of your application. Our process ensures your core business logic is translated into secure, gas-optimized, and upgradeable code.
Integration of IPFS with Major Blockchains
Custom Smart Contract Development
Secure, production-ready smart contracts built for your specific business logic and audited for deployment.
- From Specification to Mainnet: We handle the full lifecycle—design, development, testing, and deployment—with 2-week MVP sprints.
- Security-First Development: Built using OpenZeppelin standards, formal verification, and comprehensive unit/integration testing.
- Protocol-Specific Expertise: Custom
ERC-20/721/1155tokens, DeFi primitives, DAO governance, and cross-chain bridges.
We deliver contracts that are battle-tested for production, reducing your time-to-market and mitigating critical security risks before they reach the chain.
Core Integration Capabilities
We architect and deploy resilient, high-performance IPFS infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with your blockchain stack, ensuring data permanence and global availability.
Custom IPFS Gateway Deployment
Dedicated, white-labeled gateways for sub-second asset retrieval. Includes DDoS protection, custom CORS policies, and analytics to monitor content performance and user access patterns.
Decentralized Data Pipeline
End-to-end system for ingesting, processing, and pinning dynamic data (oracle feeds, user-generated content) to IPFS with automated CID anchoring to your preferred blockchain.
Performance Monitoring & SLAs
Proactive monitoring of gateway health, pin persistence, and retrieval speeds. Enterprise-grade SLAs with detailed reporting on availability and performance metrics.
Business Outcomes for Your Platform
Integrating IPFS with your blockchain stack isn't just about technology—it's about achieving measurable business advantages. We deliver production-ready solutions that drive efficiency, security, and growth.
Cost-Effective Data Storage
Replace expensive on-chain storage with decentralized IPFS, reducing your data storage costs by up to 90% while maintaining permanent, tamper-proof availability for NFTs, documents, and metadata.
Enhanced User Experience
Deliver media-rich dApps with fast, reliable content loading. Offload large assets (images, videos, 3D models) to IPFS, ensuring sub-second retrieval times and a seamless experience that retains users.
Future-Proof Data Integrity
Ensure your platform's critical data—from NFT metadata to legal documents—remains verifiable and immutable forever. Our integration creates cryptographic proofs linking on-chain transactions to off-chain content.
Scalable Infrastructure
Build applications that scale effortlessly with user growth. Our managed IPFS gateways and pinning services handle millions of requests with 99.9% uptime, eliminating infrastructure bottlenecks.
Accelerated Time-to-Market
Leverage our pre-built adapters and battle-tested libraries for Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and other major chains. Go from concept to production with a fully integrated stack in weeks, not months.
Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance
Deploy with confidence using our audited integration patterns and private IPFS cluster solutions. Maintain data sovereignty and compliance requirements while leveraging decentralized storage benefits.
Build vs. Buy: IPFS Integration
A detailed comparison of the total cost, risk, and time investment required for in-house development versus using Chainscore's managed IPFS infrastructure service.
| Factor | Build In-House | Chainscore Managed Service |
|---|---|---|
Time to Production | 4-8 months | 2-4 weeks |
Initial Development Cost | $150K - $300K+ | $25K - $75K |
Ongoing Infrastructure & DevOps | $60K - $120K/year | Included |
Security & Pinning Reliability | Your responsibility (High Risk) | Enterprise-grade SLA (99.9% uptime) |
Multi-Chain Compatibility | Custom integration per chain | Pre-built for Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Solana |
Expert Team Required | IPFS, DevOps, Blockchain Engineers | Provided by Chainscore |
Compliance & Data Governance | Build from scratch | Pre-configured for GDPR/CCPA |
Total Year 1 Cost | $210K - $420K+ | $25K - $75K |
Our Delivery Methodology
We deliver production-ready IPFS integrations through a structured, milestone-driven approach that ensures security, scalability, and seamless deployment to your blockchain of choice.
Architecture & Protocol Analysis
We analyze your specific use case and target blockchain (Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, etc.) to design an optimal integration architecture, selecting the right IPFS pinning service, data structures, and on-chain referencing patterns.
Smart Contract & Off-Chain Development
Our engineers develop the on-chain logic (Solidity, Rust, etc.) for storing content identifiers (CIDs) and build the off-chain services for uploading, pinning, and retrieving data from IPFS with robust error handling.
Security Audit & Testing
Every integration undergoes rigorous testing, including unit tests, integration tests with live IPFS nodes, and a comprehensive security review of smart contract logic and data flow to prevent vulnerabilities.
Deployment & Production Monitoring
We handle the deployment to your mainnet, configure monitoring for IPFS node health and pinning status, and provide documentation and dashboards for ongoing operational oversight.
Protocols & Technologies We Integrate
We architect IPFS integrations with the leading blockchain ecosystems, ensuring your decentralized storage solution is performant, secure, and future-proof.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get clear, technical answers on integrating decentralized storage with your blockchain application.
Our process follows a structured 4-phase methodology: 1) Discovery & Scoping (1 week): We analyze your data types, access patterns, and blockchain logic. 2) Architecture Design (1-2 weeks): We design the optimal integration pattern (e.g., IPFS CIDs in on-chain storage, decentralized frontend hosting, NFT metadata pinning). 3) Development & Integration (2-6 weeks): Our engineers implement the solution using libraries like web3.storage, Pinata SDK, or custom IPFS nodes, and integrate it with your smart contracts. 4) Testing & Deployment (1-2 weeks): We conduct rigorous testing, including load testing on IPFS gateways, before mainnet deployment. We provide a fixed-price proposal after Phase 1.
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