Direct, secure, communication made easy.
Use Layr8 to communicate directly with your partners and customers without relying on third-party SaaS marketplaces and API aggregators. Layr8 enables more cost-effective and secure multi-party data sharing and workflow integration.
Implement business logic and integrate with your backend systems-of-record in the language of your choice. Layr8 is designed to handle all the heavy lifting of bi-directional, multi-party message routing, encryption, key management, and authorization.
Enforce strict identity verification of every person, organization, and device that talks to your services. Layr8 doesn't require you to share sensitive API keys that can be compromised or stolen. Access is granted only to those presenting the right Verifiable Credentials -- cryptographically secured against tampering and unauthorized use.
Leverage battle-tested Elixir, BEAM, and Open Telecom Platform (OTP) to provide unmatched reliability and scalability. Layr8 is designed to handle high-throughput messaging and data sharing with ease by using the same tech stack that powers WhatsApp, Discord, and other messaging and telecommunications systems.
Spanning industries and markets. Wherever data needs to be shared, processes need to be coordinated, or businesses need to connect digitally, Layr8 is the perfect solution.
Enable real-time digital documentation across your transportation network. Digital Bills of Lading and e-tickets flow instantly between carriers, shippers, and receivers through secure, encrypted peer-to-peer messaging, eliminating paper processes while ensuring proper authorization and chain of custody.
Enable secure, direct communication between AI agents across organizational boundaries. Layr8's peer-to-peer messaging and decentralized identity allows agents to collaborate, share data, and coordinate tasks while maintaining organizational control and security policies.
Transform how your business connects and shares data with partners and suppliers. Layr8's identity-based messaging eliminates complex point-to-point integrations and EDI infrastructure, enabling direct, secure communication between business systems and organizations.
Features
Choose between hosting Layr8 on your own infrastructure or using our cloud-hosted service. Layr8 is designed to be flexible and scalable to meet your business needs.
Comprehensive guides, documentation, and examples help you quickly understand and implement Layr8's identity, messaging, and security policy capabilities in your applications.
Layr8 securely hosts and manages your DIDs, removing the burden of identity infrastructure while keeping you in control.
Layr8 leverages Elixir's actor-based concurrency architecture to process thousands of messages per second with low latency, reliably handling high-volume communication between organizations.
Built on Elixir's battle-tested BEAM runtime, Layr8 delivers carrier-grade reliability and effortless scalability, automatically handling failures and heavy loads without service interruption.
Lets your DevOps teams keep tabs on how the system is performing with widely accepted standard tools like Open Tracing, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Better integrations
Communicate directly with partners without relying on 3rd party communiction hubs, eliminating many security, availability, and data-leak risks.
Avoid building and maintaining custom integrations with each partner's API by using standardized message formats and protocols based on W3C standards: Verifiable Credentials, DIDComm, and DID.
Applications sending and receiving messages over Layr8 are authenticated and authorized using cryptographically Verifiable Credentials that can be used across the entire network, and are resistant to tampering and abuse, similar to passports in the real-world.
Components
The node is what connects your custom Layr8 applications to the rest of the network. It's the entry point for all messages and data.
The sidecar is a mini-node packaged to work with Kubernetes allowing you to run Layr8 alongside any application in a containerized environment. (coming soon)
The admin console is a web-based tool that allows you to configure and manage your Layr8 Nodes.
A set of tools and dashboards that allow you to monitor and analyze the performance of your Layr8 network. Layr8 provides out-of-the-box integration with Prometheus and Grafana.
An add-on featureset that provides the tools you need to be able to issue and manage Verifiable Credentials for your Layr8 network.(coming soon)
A containerized web server that simplifies the job of hosting Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and DID Documents on your domains allowing you to more easily create on-brand identities on the web.
In this post, I recall some of our journey and how we arrived at identity as the foundational concept that will revolutionize how companies integrate and people interact, and how identity will power the coming internet of AI agents and things.
Explore why message-passing systems offer advantages over traditional RESTful APIs for service integration and cross-organizational communication.
An in-depth analysis comparing RESTful APIs with Layr8's peer-to-peer messaging system for modern, real-time business communication needs.
Here, we’ll take you along for the ride as we continue to build Layr8 and explore how decentralization is reshaping the enterprise communication landscape.
Accelerate your digital integrations and communications with Layr8.
