Insight serves NFT assets on Edge

Amine Afia, Vernon Johnson

Mar 4, 2025 • 1 min read

Insight now serves NFT assets through the Thirdweb Gateway, improving retrieval times by caching the content on a globally serving data on edge. Instead of referencing IPFS or Arweave links, insight automatically resolves them to edge-friendly endpoints, so metadata no longer displays IPFS URLs. This deployment is transparent to existing NFT configurations and requires no additional integration steps, enhancing performance and reducing latency while ensuring consistent, high-speed access to decentralized assets.

Example:

before:

"image_url": "ipfs://QmY1vKaHd3UvbzStxgndUMH3FzprK7jTJcAvgbHbcLsZXv/107.png"

After

"image_url": "https://5c9e93b8acbb5d972c1841911a7dce5f.ipfscdn.io/ipfs/QmY1vKaHd3UvbzStxgndUMH3FzprK7jTJcAvgbHbcLsZXv/107.png"

This means you can use the image directly in your frontend, the snippet bellow would render the NFT image from thirdweb gateway.

  <img src="https://5c9e93b8acbb5d972c1841911a7dce5f.ipfscdn.io/ipfs/QmY1vKaHd3UvbzStxgndUMH3FzprK7jTJcAvgbHbcLsZXv/107.png" alt="NFT Image" />