# Engineering updates, thinking, and behind the scenes looks at the sculpting of Ceramic

[We built a Web3 points application on Ceramic to explore the design considerations a successful system requires.](https://blog.ceramic.network/points-on-ceramic/)

[Learn how to use WalletConnect's Web3Modal toolset to create Ceramic user sessions in this interactive technical tutorial.](https://blog.ceramic.network/walletconnect-tutorial/)

[Breaking down predominant data control patterns on Ceramic](https://blog.ceramic.network/data-control-patterns-in-decentralized-storage/)

[Each document written to Ceramic in the form of a Verifiable Credential or off-chain EAS Attestation payload contains everything needed to later recall the document from Ceramic and validate the signatures.](https://blog.ceramic.network/an-easier-way-to-create-verifiable-claims-on-ceramic/)

[At the core of W3C standards are the features they unlock, not only for the users themselves but for the developers integrating them into their applications.](https://blog.ceramic.network/attestations-vs-credentials-making-claims-interoperable/)

[These developments do not require any changes or upgrades to applications built on Ceramic.](https://blog.ceramic.network/improved-efficiency-and-reliability-of-the-network/)

[ComposeDB Beta includes all the core features you need to build fully-composable Web3 graph data apps on Ceramic Mainnet](https://blog.ceramic.network/composedb-is-live-on-ceramic-mainnet/)

[A useful way to think about the DID standard \[https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/\] is as a mechanism to bootstrap trust in an identifier. Implementers can define DID Methods that define how to resolve a DID Document from a DID URL. The most widely used DID method today](https://blog.ceramic.network/accounts-evolution-of-3id/)

[How sovereignty, data models and networks combine to create the internet’s user table and the sovereign web.](https://blog.ceramic.network/user-centric-data-on-web3/)

[How we designed an access control system for sovereign data on a decentralized network.](https://blog.ceramic.network/capability-based-data-security-on-ceramic/)

[We're replacing the popular IDX runtime with a more powerful set of tools for building applications on Ceramic including DID DataStore, DataModels, and Self.ID.](https://blog.ceramic.network/the-next-architecture-for-building-web3-data-applications/)

[A guide and code snippets for migrating your application from 3Box to IDX for profile queries.](https://blog.ceramic.network/migrate-your-3box-profile-queries-to-idx/)

[How to implement a conviction voting system using verifiable, off-chain data on Ceramic.](https://blog.ceramic.network/trust-minimized-off-chain-conviction-voting/)

[Joel talks about new standards for signed, encrypted, mutable data on IPFS. This is a talk from ETHDenver 2021.](https://blog.ceramic.network/standards-for-encrypted-and-mutable-data-on-ipfs/)

[3Box Labs is sunsetting its current line of 3Box products. Learn how to migrate your integration to Ceramic and IDX.](https://blog.ceramic.network/migrating-from-3box-to-ceramic-and-idx/)

[Starting today you can build with Clay, the official testnet for the Ceramic Network.](https://blog.ceramic.network/ceramic-network-clay-testnet/)

[Learn how to add support for new blockchain accounts as 3ID authentication methods in 3ID Connect.](https://blog.ceramic.network/add-authentication-with-new-blockchains-in-3id-connect/)

[Learn how to add 3ID Connect to your browser-based Ceramic app.](https://blog.ceramic.network/how-to-use-3id-connect-in-browser-applications/)

[3ID Connect is an authentication system that allows users to use blockchain wallets to interact with browser-based Ceramic apps.](https://blog.ceramic.network/what-is-3id-connect/)

[Learn how to store signed and encrypted data directly in IPFS using two new standards: dag-jose and EIP-2844.](https://blog.ceramic.network/how-to-store-signed-and-encrypted-data-on-ipfs/)