Founders of Ocean Protocol
Founders combine a deep background in big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence and data exchanges, with real-world business experience as entrepreneurs, designers and technologists.
Mission & Roadmap
Society is becoming increasingly reliant on data, especially with the advent of AI. However, a small handful of organizations with both massive data assets and AI capabilities attained worrying levels of control which is a danger to a free and open society.
We aim to unlock data, for more equitable outcomes for users of data, using a thoughtful application of both technology and governance.
Our team and community is committed to kick-starting a New Data Economy that reaches every single person, company and device, giving power back to data owners and enabling people to capture value from data to better our world.
2017
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01
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Marketplace Framework
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2017
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2018
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02
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Technical Whitepaper & Token Pre-Launch
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2018
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03
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Data Marketplace on test network
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2018
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04
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Ocean v1 Alpha Launch & Community Programs and Event
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2018
2019
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05
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Decentralised Access Controls functionality
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2019
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06
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Ocean v1 Production Launch
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2019
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2020
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07
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Enterprise Marketplace
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2020
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08
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Compute-to-Data v2 Launch
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2020
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09
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Datatokens and Ocean V3
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2020
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10
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OceanDAO Launch
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2020
2021
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11
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Compute-to-Data enters Ocean Market
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2021
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12
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Fine grained permissions via RBAC
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2021
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13
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Deploy to Moonriver, BSC, EWC
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2021
2022
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14
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Ocean Shipyard Launch
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2022
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15
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Ocean V4 and Data Challenges Launch
H20 Non-Pegged Stable Asset Launch
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2022
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16
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Data Farming & veOCEAN Launch
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2022
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2023
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Today
The Year of Scaling
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2023
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Advisors
We have over 35 advisors spanning the globe, with recognized expertise in AI, blockchain, big data, business and policy. Advisors were carefully selected based on an alignment of values towards unlocking data and AI for society. Advisors work to build meaningful collaborations, refer potential business partners, integrate with the protocol, and provide guidance on governance.
From 2015 until now, Meltem has provided strong guidance on our fundraising and go-to-market strategies. As we moved from ascribe.io to BigchainDB and now to Ocean Protocol, her wisdom has been invaluable.
Meltem Demirors
Chief Strategy Officer CoinShares
Carsten shares deep insights on IoT, energy and identity solutions that can integrate into Ocean Protocol, as well as giving us his futuristic viewpoints to help us see around the corner.
Dr. Carsten Stöcker
CEO Spherity
Sebastian gave us great insights in their Token Curation development such as the graded TCR. More importantly, many of their developments, research and insights are being widely shared in the open source community.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek
Co-founder & former CTO Weeve
Adam is both a world-class data scientist and manager of data scientists & engineers.
Adam Drake
CEO Atazzo
We are excited about Chris’ insight and guidance on how we can further the goals of MOBI by using Ocean Protocol as a secure, data exchange protocol for solving mobility challenges.
Chris Ballinger
Founder & CEO MOBI
Lawrence is exploring the intersections of artificial intelligence, blockchains and the internet of things. With a political background he leads Outlier Venture's thinking on governance in crypto networks.
Lawrence Lundy
Researcher, Impact Investments
We’re working closely with Peter to provide seamless and powerful tooling for data scientists to co-create a future that equalizes the opportunity to access data & AI services.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CEO Anaconda Inc.
Andreas Mueller is one of the core creators of the beloved machine learning tool scikit-learn.
Andreas Mueller
Author of Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
Luis Cuende is the founder of Aragon, a network and tooling for blockchain governance, and one of the top experts in the blockchain space
Luis Cuende
CEO Aragon One
Simon’s quick, curious, and broad-thinking mind will be helpful as we build & grow the Ocean ecosystem, in everything from incentives for data commons to price-setting for data markets.
Simon de la Rouviere
Pioneer of Curation Markets & TCRs
Azeem Azhar is a seasoned technologist & manager, and doesn’t shy away from making his case about what’s important and what we might do about it.
Azeem Azhar
Founder Exponential View
Amir is General Manager of the AI & Frontier Tech Initiatives group at XPRIZE Foundation. He is a leader in the global AI for Good movement, as epitomized by the global “AI for Good Global Summit” that he co-organizes.
Amir Banifatemi
Co-Founder AI for Good & General Manager AI XPrize
Ben is the CEO of the decentralized AI network SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI platform company, and the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics. He also has decades of expertise applying AI to practical problems in areas ranging from natural language processing and data mining to robotics, video gaming, national security and bioinformatics.
Dr. Ben Goertzel
Founder SingularityNET
Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach is a technology strategist possessing unique knowledge of the high-tech ecosystem, able to structure partnership agreements with global technology companies offering mutual advantage.
Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach
Independent Director Dun & Bradstreet
Brian Fabian Crain is an economist, entrepreneur and host of Epicenter, passionate about open systems and freedom.
Brian Fabian Crain
Founder & CEO of Chorus One
Ryan Selkis is an entrepreneur, blogger, and former venture capitalist.
Ryan Selkis
Founder & CEO of Messari
For decades, Richard Muirhead has been involved in starting, funding, building and finding long-term homes for innovative software and internet businesses.
Richard Muirhead
Founding Managing Partner, Fabric Ventures
Mark has over 20 years of experience in institutional investing, focusing on blockchain and smart-city tech.
Mark Cachia
Founder of Scytale Ventures
Kenneth focuses on Corporate and Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology law practice. As an interdisciplinary lawyer, he has experience in token offerings, equity investments and exchanges.
Kenneth Oh
Senior Partner at Dentons Singapore
Jason Teutsch is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research focuses on distributed systems security, game theory and algorithmic randomness.
Jason Teutsch
Founder Truebit.io
Gil Allouche is a product marketing expert with focus on big data and technology.
Gil Allouche
CEO of Metadata.io
David Holtzmann is a former security analyst and military code-breaker, a futurist, activist, privacy expert, technologist, technology executive and writer. Initiatives he spearheaded have radically changed the way people interact with technology.
David Holtzmann
Creator of DNS, Chief Strategy Officer & CTO at Ambika
As part of the most technologically sophisticated and global sports organizations, Charles Smith is seeking to securely share and monetize data from the ATP
Charles Humphrey Smith
ATP Board Member, CEO TenEventsAsia