Niko Bonnieure
Niko is a French engineer specializing in encryption, local-first, and semantic web, linked data, graph data. After the Snowden revelations in 2013, he decided to quit his job & dedicate his time to building Nextgraph.org, a decentralized platform for malleable apps based on a graph database featuring CRDTs, P2P and E2EE. He embraced the Local First movement and join a vibrant community of developers, engineers and researchers who are working toward a truly decentralized web, with data and software ownership for the user.
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NextGraph is a protocol, a framework, and a platform that supports easy development of Local-First, decentralized, secure and private apps, with end-to-end encryption.
By combining the best of the local first world (Yjs, Automerge CRDT libraries), a Graph database (RDF), DID (decentralized identifiers) for users and documents, and end-to-end encryption plus encryption at rest, we provide an SDK that offers all the requirements of portability, interoperability and security needed today for building a true alternative to Big Tech platforms and products. The ecosystem of apps built with NextGraph is growing, and it is getting easier to use the SDK specially with the ORM. Let's explore what can be done today with NextGraph, including the new ELFA project that has just started, and that aims at delivering a full suite of apps for productivity tools and social network.