Developers
Seize control of what you build
The Akord protocol and SDK provide the tools to publish data permanently and create new experiences on Arweave. Leverage data ownership, permanence, privacy and collaboration.
Teams are using the Akord API in diverse ways
From reforestation to leasing healthcare data – Akord’s API is enabling companies to unlock new ways of working with data.
Veritree are on a mission to plant 1 billion trees by 2030.
Dedoco are a decentralised document management platform.
Mahamati Foundation are preserving ancient Buddhist texts
ForeverStories podcast stories and preserve guests’ content.
FMD Systems are leasing patient-owned data through NFTs.
Built for builders
Get going with a few lines of codes
The Akord Protocol and SDK provide the tools to store data, share and collaborate on Arweave. Bring data ownership, permanence and privacy to your apps
# Create your vault
const { akord } = await Akord.auth.signIn(username, password);
const { vaultId } = akord.vault.create("My personal vault");
# Write to your vault
const { noteId } = await akord.note.create(vaultId, 'Hello World', "My first note");
# Read from your vault
const notes = await akord.note.list(vaultId);Get going in the terminal with our CLI.
Some people prefer diving in with the basics rather than reading every page of the docs!
Building together
Supporting and connecting our community
We have a range of channels to support builders, from grants to our community Discord. It’s easy to connect with our team and other builders in the ecosystem, and get any help you may need.
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Discord
Github
Linkedin
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The community’s success is our success.
We’re not here just to create a product. We’re here to join with like-minded builders, eyes gleaming at the thought of the potential, the possibilities, the future. Without you, our work is incomplete.
Are you ready to seize control?
User-owned storage and permanent publishing is the new web3 frontier – the basis upon which radically transformative applications and products will be built. Products that will change our relationship with data. Are you ready to get started?
Get an overview of the protocol, our thinking on web3 and user-owned storage.
Our Builder Support program is there to boost developers and teams using Akord protocol.
FAQ
Check out Akord-JS. That’s our client-side library that takes care of:
- end-to-end encryption
- posting transactions to Arweave using Akord protocol
- talking to Akord API
- talking to Arweave API.
That little lib is performing all actions you will see on our app, v2.akord.com. You can create a new vault, upload E2E encrypted files or subscribe to Arweave transaction status change.
PS. it works on node too.
Some of the benefits of using Akord API:
- end-to-end encryption
- instant and fast access to your data
- deterministic and finite transaction id right after posting
- notifications – for example, instant info about a new member in your vault.
To get the feeling for how it works, check out our tutorial.
With this you get everything Akord offers, accessible in your terminal. Also, the source code of our CLI can serve as an example of how you can use akord-js on nodejs.
Get all this info and more general FAQs from our documentation pages.
Chat with our community
Talk to other members of our community, ask questions and get the heads up on all the latest Akord happenings.