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IOTA EVM endpoints are now part of Blast
18.6.2024
Incorporating IOTA EVM endpoints into Blast is a game-changing development, and IOTA can address the scalability and efficiency issues of conventional blockchain systems. Its Tangle architecture features parallel transaction validation without the usual drawbacks of blocks and chains....
NFT Marketplace Looksrare Launches Version 2, Cutting Protocol Fees by 75% and Introducing Bulk Purchases
9.4.2023
Looksrare, the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, has launched version two, also known as v2, which reduces protocol fees by 75%. According to statistics from Dune Analytics, Looksrare was the tenth-largest NFT marketplace in terms of trader count during the past week. NFT Market Protocol...
RPC endpoints run by Solana Foundation go offline
9.1.2023
Solana Status sent out a tweet to let people know that RPC endpoints run by the Solana Foundation aren’t working right now because a bug was found in the test release 1.14. Members have been asked to switch to the 1.13 test release until the team does the repairs. Unlike earlier times, block...
Infura Mistakenly Leaves Venezuelan Users Without Metamask Support
4.3.2022
Infura, the service provider of Metamask, one of the most used smart contracts-based wallets, blocked the access of Venezuelans to the Ethereum blockchain. Reports about this happening circulated on social media, attributing it to the existence of sanctions that the infrastructure provider might...
How to Cancel Pending API Requests to Show Correct Data
25.6.2021
I recently had to create a widget in React that fetches data from multiple API endpoints. As the user clicks around, new data is fetched and marshalled into the UI. But it caused some problems.
One problem quickly became evident: …
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Polkadot’s Reef Uses Pinknode for Safe API Endpoints
22.6.2021
Polkadot is continuing its trend to enter strategic partnerships by integrating Pinknode in Reef Finance. Reef is a DeFi platform developed with Substrate Framework, and it will start using Pinknode now. The integration will see Reef providing reliable and secure API endpoints to users globally....
Don’t Wait! Mock the API
10.8.2020
Today we have a loose coupling between the front end and the back end of web applications. They are usually developed by separate teams, and keeping those teams and the technology in sync is not easy. To solve part of this problem, we can “fake” the API server that the back end tech...
We are Programmers
22.11.2019
Building websites is programming. Writing HTML and CSS is programming. I am a programmer, and if you're here, reading CSS-Tricks, chances are you're a programmer, too.
The thing is, the details in programming layout with CSS are different, for example, than the details in programming API endpoints...
Need to Test API Endpoints? Two Quick Ways to Do It.
25.1.2019
Here's a possibility! Perhaps you are testing your JavaScript with a framework like Jasmine. That's nice because you can write lots of tests to cover your application, get a nice little UI to see the output, and even integrate it with build and deploy tools to make your ongoing development work...