Important
🚨 Orbis Social SDK is a legacy product dedicated to Social. If you want to access our latest product, check here
Driven by developer feedback and a new role as a core developer in the Ceramic ecosystem, Orbis is expanding its focus beyond social to offer a simple and efficient gateway for storing and managing open data on Ceramic.
OrbisDB is a new open-source relational database designed for onchain builders - authentification, crypto plugins, hosted service, and built-in dashboard.
Learn more about here
Existing users? Orbis Social SDK is going nowhere for now, it will continue functioning as usual (no deprecation of existing features). Once ready, it will be migrated to OrbisDB (including an SDK upgrade and a direct access to our Hosted Studio). However, Orbis Social has been put in maintenance mode (bug fixes, no major changes). We recommend developers to have the most advanced and riched experience to migrate now to OrbisDB.
By using the Orbis SDK, developers can build their own decentralized social apps or add a decentralized social features to their existing application in a very easy and performant way.
By being built on top of Ceramic, Orbis offers many advantages to developers interested in building decentralized social applications:
- No transaction fees
- Users don’t have to sign a message for each action they take
- Write times are very fast which offers a user experience similar to web2
- Every piece of content shared on Orbis is decentralized on the Ceramic network and anyone can access it
- There is a full composability between apps built on the Orbis ecosystem
- (Coming soon) Multichain: Users can join Orbis using additional chains such as Cosmos or Solana and interact together in the same digital space
Here are some examples of applications that could be built on top of Orbis:
- Full social apps like orbis.club
- Decentralized & encrypted messaging system
- Fully customizable & embedded group chat servers
- Decentralized Discourse governance forums
- Decentralized support system (similar to Intercom)
- Decentralized version of Slack
- Decentralized commenting features
- And many other things...
Our legacy documentation is available at https://useorbis.com/documentation