Ceramic Network: The Collaborative Data Layer

Key Insights

• Ceramic is building a system to store mutable documents on-chain, which allows developers to build quicker and provide richer user experiences.
• The IDX standard is developing shared user data tables that are managed by the user across the Ceramic ecosystem.
• In contrast with wallet-as-identity, a user is represented by their DID and can be tied to wallet addresses across multiple chains while preserving their identity.

Whoever controls the data controls the internet. Today, centralized platforms retain absolute power over where data is stored, how it is stored, and who is able to read from or write to a given dataset. This phenomenon has led to diminished user ownership rights in regards to personal data, siloed web applications, created poor user experience, and to put it plainly, wasted developer time.

Self-sovereign data built on public blockchains unlocks a permissionless, composable, and interoperable internet. The grand vision of Web3 is a shared, decentralized data layer where data is not the differentiator between a bad consumer app and an exceptional one. Ceramic is building a system to store mutable smart documents on-chain, which allows developers to build quicker and provide richer user experiences.