BTFS Gateways: Bridging Decentralised Storage and the Web
BTFS gateways are the practical bridge between content-addressed storage and everyday web experiences.
While BTFS stores files by hash ensuring integrity and censorship resistance browsers and most web apps expect HTTPS URLs and standard HTTP semantics.
Gateways translate between these models: they handle normal web requests, fetch content from BTFS or cache, and serve it over HTTP with correct headers.
This unlocks decentralised content for mainstream use and removes a major friction point for adoption.
Core benefits:
Accessibility: Users can open familiar web addresses or DNSLink paths without installing software or running a node.
Reduced latency: Caching at nearby gateways speeds up delivery of media, images, and NFTs.
Compatibility: Gateways integrate with existing tools and CDNs, allowing developers to embed decentralised content without re-architecting stacks.
Enhancing usability:
DNSLink maps human-readable domains to BTFS hashes, preserving integrity while using familiar URLs.
Subdomain gateways hide raw hashes, simplify embedding, cookie scoping, and security policies, making decentralised sites feel like traditional web properties.
Trust and provenance:
Gateways must serve exact content matching the requested hash. Signed manifests and provenance chains allow consumers to verify publisher signatures and build steps.
Native BTFS access remains the canonical source; gateways accelerate delivery without replacing network trust.
Best practices:
Host private or regional gateways for production workloads to improve uptime, privacy, and cache efficiency.
Manage cache-control, CORS, TLS, and content headers. Pre-pin or pre-seed large media for performance.
Use hybrid architectures: public gateways for casual traffic, private nodes for critical services.
Bottom line:
BTFS gateways make decentralised content fast, secure, and verifiable.
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