Perspect3vism / Coasys
Perspect3vism was an early Holochain hApp project exploring agent-centric social networking. It evolved into the broader Coasys ecosystem, which now develops three related projects:
Coasys Projects
AD4M (Agent-Centric Distributed Application Meta-Ontology)
AD4M is a framework for building interoperable, agent-centric social applications. Key concepts:
- Perspectives: Personal knowledge graphs owned by each agent
- Languages: Pluggable backends for storing different kinds of data (Holochain, IPFS, centralized, etc.)
- Expressions: Content in any language, addressed by URL
- Links: Connections between expressions in an agent’s perspective
AD4M allows applications to share data across different storage backends while keeping agents in full control of their data.
Flux
Flux is a messaging and collaboration application built on AD4M. It provides:
- Decentralized group messaging and channels
- Shared perspectives for collaborative workspaces
- Interoperability with other AD4M-compatible applications
Coasys Developer SDK
The Coasys SDK allows developers to build AD4M-compatible applications that work with any language/backend combination.
Relationship to Holochain
Perspect3vism originally used Holochain as its primary storage backend. AD4M abstracts over storage, supporting Holochain as one of many “languages.” This allows AD4M applications to leverage Holochain’s agent-centric properties while remaining storage-agnostic.