4EVERLAND: ERC-721 Token’s Storage Choice

Stein
4EVERLAND
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2 min readFeb 21, 2023

4EVERLAND: A Web3 infrastructure facilitating projects easier and faster to host frontends, store data/NFT/files, and access them on top of IPFS, Arweave, and Dfinity.

NFT , Digital Ownership

The NFT innovation using the Ethereum ERC-721 standard solves one of the main problems of Internet content: ownership. By minting NFTs on a decentralised ledger, we are able to verify the ownership and provenance of individual pieces of content—artwork, videos, music, etc. In the vast majority of cases, this content is to be logically attached to theERC-721 token. It is stored as a tokenURI, usually used as a container for certain data or as the address of a remote resource containing more detailed information.

Obviously, we can say that the content is either stored on or off the chain. The specific trade-offs that we usually need to consider are as follows:

Off chain:

2 or more steps in the minting process

Complexity contract reduced

Lower storage cost

While NFT’s actual digital assets, metadata, and code are stored under the chain of a central server, sometimes seeded to IPFS.

On-chain:

Complexity minting reduced

Complexity contract increased

High storage cost

Arweave offers a solution designed to store data on the chain in perpetuity. This data is replicated multiple times across the global network of miners, who are rewarded for their replication of that data.

Both solutions have certain advantages in the industry in terms of decentralisation, but in reality they often have different difficulties due to the different protocols involved. Usually, these wonderful protocols are also not available to people who are not from a development background.

4EVERLAND provides a set of visual UIs that integrates both IPFS and Arweave to simplify the storage process and facilitate quick use.

Using Bucket to Solve the Elephant in the Room

Bucket is a tool from 4EVERLAND designed to help users make better use of Web3's decentralised storage.

Simply login to the 4EVERLAND Dashboard and upload your NFT metadata JSON files or data to the IPFS/Arweave network to get the hosting URL in a visual interface.

Select "Upload" and turn on the "Sync to AR" option.

Once the upload is successful, you can see the available URLs in the details on the right.

This is usually much easier than running complex commands.

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