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Ceramic Network is a decentralized data network for managing verifiable, composable stream data. Built on event sourcing and IPLD, data is organized as streams, signed by DIDs, and anchored to blockchains for immutability and verifiability. Developers can create, update, and query streams via public APIs, and reuse community-published Data Models to achieve cross-application data interoperability. Typical use cases include user profiles, social graphs, and credential storage.
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About Ceramic Network
Ceramic Network is a decentralized data network designed for Web3 applications, functioning as a composable, open database. Its core business provides developers with a scalable infrastructure to store, manage, and share dynamic data—such as user profiles, social graphs, and verifiable credentials—while enabling cross-application interoperability through standardized data models.
Its key competitive advantage lies in composability: data is owned by users and can be freely referenced or reused across different dApps, avoiding silos. Unlike blockchains, Ceramic separates data storage from consensus, using IPFS for content addressing and anchoring to Ethereum for integrity, achieving high throughput and low cost. This solves the pain point of expensive on-chain storage and the lack of a unified data layer in Web3.
In the past six months (Feb-Aug 2026), Ceramic has focused on consolidation and migration. Following the merger of 3Box Labs with Textile, Ceramic joined the Textile family, and the team has been prioritizing the launch of Ceramic One, a new node implementation designed for improved performance and scalability. The deprecated js-ceramic and ComposeDB are being phased out, which has caused some community friction regarding migration complexity. However, the network continues to serve hundreds of applications, particularly in the identity and credential management space.
Ceramic Network launched its mainnet in 2021, introducing a composable data network for managing verifiable data at scale. In 2025, Textile and 3Box Labs merged to focus on AI agents, with Ceramic becoming part of the new 'intelligence layer' for the multi-agent economy. These milestones mark Ceramic's evolution from a decentralized data infrastructure to a foundational component for AI-driven data exchange.
Over the past half year, Ceramic shifted focus to Recall. The team deprecated js-ceramic and ComposeDB, and pushed ceramic-one, the Rust-based implementation, as the primary path forward. Ceramic-one now supports Recon-based sync and historical data, with data access through a Flight SQL query pipeline. All existing ComposeDB data remains readable on ceramic-one. The next milestone is self-anchoring to Recall for fully decentralized timestamping; afterward, ceramic-one will reach a feature-complete MVP and receive only critical fixes. ComposeDB and the Ceramic Anchor Service are scheduled to shut down at least one month after Recall mainnet. The long-term roadmap centers on Recall, a cryptoeconomic platform for AI agents to prove, improve, and earn. Ceramic users are encouraged to migrate to ceramic-one.
Joel Thorstensson (Co-founder): Core contributor at Ceramic Network, previously co-founded 3Box. Focused on decentralized identity and data protocols.
Michael Sena (Founder): CEO of Ceramic Network, previously founded 3Box. Background in product management and blockchain infrastructure.
Danny Zuckerman (Founder): Product Lead at Ceramic Network, previously co-founded 3Box. Stanford graduate, ex-ConsenSys, focused on decentralized data solutions.