What is Sphere?
Sphere is decentralized infrastructure for human organisation: a typed, weighted trust graph (the social fabric), composable governance engines (how groups make decisions), and value-based voting (how groups express what matters).
The whitepaper explains why. These docs explain what’s running and how to run it yourself.
Three layers
Section titled “Three layers”- Trust graph — every entity (person, group, algorithm) is a node; edges are typed and weighted relationships.
- Governance engines — sub-graphs over that graph that encode decision procedures (votes, courts, councils, constitutions).
- Applications — the user-visible products: feeds, governance UIs, QuestBoard, decentral university tooling, etc.
Components in this repo set
Section titled “Components in this repo set”| Component | Repo (placeholder) | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Sphere Graph API | sphere-graph-api | Owns the trust graph; serves REST queries + mutations. |
| Sphere Web | sphere-web | Next.js frontend talking to the Graph API. |
| sphere-system | sphere-system | Discord/Telegram bot — agent surface for the graph. |
| sphere-dashboard | sphere-dashboard | This site (landing + whitepaper + docs + demos). |
The pages under Graph API, Sphere Web, and sphere-system drill into each one.
Status
Section titled “Status”Phase 1 is the Graph API — see Phase 1 plan. Everything else is either stubbed, prototyped, or pending decision.