Joel Thorstensson: Ceramic – Building the Dataverse #482
Channel: Epicenter Podcast
Date: 2023-02-09

The Metaverse has taken the world by storm in 2021 and even though many have and are still opposing it, the fact that we are spending the majority of our lives online is an undeniable truth. The boundaries between physical and digital worlds are slowly eroding away. Our digital presence generates a data footprint that is currently being stored in big tech’s centralized silos. As a whole, these user-generated data breadcrumbs represent our digital identity. Web3 has, so far, mainly focused on financial aspects, disregarding user specific data even though the latter actually represents the vast majority (over 90%) of all generated data.

We were joined by Joel Thorstensson, co-founder of 3Box Labs, to discuss Ceramic’s goal of decentralizing ‘social’, account-based data in the form of user-generated event streams, that could unlock true application interoperability built on a composable data layer.

Topics discussed in this episode:
0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - Joel’s background & founding Ceramic
5:50 - The concept behind Ceramic
11:04 - Ceramic’s event stream design vs. other data solutions
16:54 - The need for consensus in Ceramic
27:00 - Use cases for Ceramic
30:48- Data privacy potential
33:24 - Application interoperability
39:54 - Data redundancy & protection
42:56 - Ceramic’s ecosystem & business model

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Joel Thorstensson on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3HTtef8
- Ceramic on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3RRXsUk

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This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst & Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/482