IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it. Filecoin - the world’s largest decentralized network, allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate. The Filecoin protocol runs on an advanced and novel proof system — a combination of Proof of Spacetime (PoSt) and Proof of Replication (PoRep), to provide unmatched efficiency and reliability. Filecoin’s advanced technology provides a robust foundation to store the world’s most valuable data sets. An alternative to costly cloud storage, the Filecoin network offers efficiently priced and geographically decentralized storage, minimizing financial barriers, and allowing users to take advantage of its unmatched network capabilities.

Valist brings web3-native software distribution to life: publish, fetch, auto-update, and monetize your software or games with an easy to use set of tools. All without intermediaries like Steam or Apple taking a 30% cut.

Pinata is the leading multimedia hub for NFT creators, builders, and artists in web3. Our vision to foster a sense of place for every creator on the internet that is uniquely theirs has been the company’s goal since 2018. Pinata gives users the ability to easily upload, manage, and share content with the world. Building the largest pinning service on IPFS with over 140,000 users and serving more than 1 billion requests monthly, Pinata currently powers the top projects, marketplaces, and apps for NFTs and beyond.

Tableland builds a protocol, network, and token to enable relational data in Web3. Use familiar SQL-based tables to read and write dynamic NFT metadata or application data–all orchestrated on token networks like Ethereum.

NFTPort is the Stripe for NFTs: one-stop, simple NFT Infrastructure and APIs for developers to bring NFT applications to market in hours instead of months. NFTPort takes care of the infrastructure so that developers can focus on building their application. NFTPort provides APIs for multi-chain NFT data and NFT minting, together with out-of-the-box NFT search, recommendations and detecting NFT counterfeits. NFTPort is used by 10,000+ devs, including leading projects such as POAP and Nifty Gateway. Built by a team of ex-NATO, Nvidia & Monese and backed by the Co-Founders of Polygon, Skype & Wise.

Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 3000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~100M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

Chainlink greatly expands the capabilities of smart contracts by enabling access to real-world data and off-chain computation while maintaining the security and reliability guarantees inherent to blockchain technology. With Price Feeds, Verifiable Randomness, Upkeeps, and making any kind of API call, you can empower your application to do virtually anything. There is an abundance of resources in the Chainlink documentation for any developer at any level to get started.

We at Covalent believe that access to organized blockchain data can unlock a billion possibilities and so we provide the world's best single unified API to bring full transparency and visibility to assets across all blockchain networks. With the Covalent API, there is no need to invest developer resources in writing sub-graphs or SQL queries since granular, decoded, multi-chain data is immediately available for a dozen blockchain networks including Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Fantom and Avalanche. Covalent is fast becoming the go-to data provider, with the Covalent API powering over 500 industry-leading projects such as Zerion, ChainGuardians, 0x and Reef.

The Covalent Unified API is the fastest way to get blockchain data into your BuildQuest project. Use it and be immediately eligible for our prize pool!

Lighthouse is a permanent file storage protocol that allows the ability to pay once and store your files forever. This will be super important for metaverse and gaming assets which need to be stored permanently using Lighthouse without paying for them again. You can use networks like Polygon, Mumbai Testnet, Fantom, Fantom Testnet, etc. to interact with Lighthouse protocol.