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title: "Central Hub Overview"
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# Central Hub Overview

The Central Hub is a social betting layer for the Virtual Stadium Data SDK. It lets you build profile, social, notification, onboarding, leaderboard, and shared-bet experiences on top of the core SDK services.

## Core Features

- **Bet sharing** — create, browse, and copy shared betslips.
- **Social interactions** — follow and unfollow users, browse followers, and search the community.
- **Comments and reactions** — let users discuss shared bets and react to bets or replies.
- **Notifications** — show bet share, comment, and social activity updates.
- **User profiles** — load profile data, shared bets, privacy settings, and engagement metrics.
- **Leaderboards** — rank users by followers, popular bets, or bet comments.
- **Onboarding** — show Central Hub onboarding only to first-time users.

## Providers and Managers

The Central Hub feature set is split across focused SDK services:

- `CentralHubBetShareProvider`
- `CentralHubBetsProvider`
- `CentralHubBetShareCopyProvider`
- `CentralHubCommentingProvider`
- `CentralHubReactionsManager`
- `CentralHubNotificationsProvider`
- `CentralHubProfileProvider`
- `CentralHubFollowersProvider`
- `CentralHubFollowingManager`
- `CentralHubSearchProvider`
- `CentralHubOnboardingProvider`
- `CentralHubLeaderboardProvider`

## Documentation Topics

### Bet Sharing

Create and browse shared betslips with filtering, sorting, and pagination support.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/betSharing.md)

### Copying Bets

Copy shared betslips and map copied data into your own bet slip flow.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/betCopying.md)

### Comments & Reactions

Load comments, post replies, and react to bet shares or comment threads.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/commentsAndReactions.md)

### Notifications

Read Central Hub notification state and manage unread items.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/notifications.md)

### User Profiles

Fetch profile data, shared bets, privacy settings, and avatar URLs.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/profiles.md)

### Social Features

Follow users, browse followers, and search within the Central Hub community.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/social.md)

### Onboarding

Track whether a user has already completed the Central Hub onboarding flow.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/onboarding.md)

### Leaderboards

Load ranked users by category and timeframe, then paginate through results.

[View Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/centralHub/leaderboard.md)

## Next Steps

### Chat Features

Review the core channel, message, reaction, and bet sharing SDK flows.

[View Chat Guide](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/chatChannel.md)

### Profile Provider

See how the base profile provider exposes user profile data outside Central Hub.

[View Profile Provider](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/profile.md)

### SDK Overview

Return to the main Data SDK overview and installation flow.

[View SDK Overview](https://apidocs.sportradar.com/resources/virtual-stadium/docs/sdk/overview.md)