Securing the Scientific Record with Ceramics
summary
Ceramic layers mutable, signed event logs over IPFS CIDs and periodically anchors Merkle roots to Ethereum, batching thousands of events per on‑chain transaction so timestamps are tamper‑resistant but cheap. Nodes collect signed events, build Merkle tree batched on Ethereum, replicate IPLD objects down to single records, and expose SQL/GraphQL through databases like orbb; projects using it include Coordination Network, D Labs, Index Network and Cers Scan for provenance, versioned research artifacts, semantic discovery and potential retroactive bounty attribution.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:54Scientific data challenges
- 4:47Cryptographic solutions for data
- 6:34Introducing Ceramic
- 9:24Low-level system details
- 10:29Projects using Ceramic
- 14:46Exploring Ceramic data
- 15:09How to get involved
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