In Shipyard, the Ocean core team curates project proposals that are set up to deliver according to clear delivery milestone timelines and bring particular strategic value for the future development of Ocean.
Eligible Shipyard projects must make use of Ocean technology and/or OCEAN token, be open source, have experienced teams, working code, a clear use case and/or deployment potential. Typically, successful Shipyard grants are funded up to $30,000 and cover a period of 3-6 months. Ideally, grant deliverables provide an initial validation MVP or beta that serves as a basis for further discussion.
What are we looking for?
Ocean Shipyard is looking for entrepreneurs to build open-source Web3 solutions on Ocean
Protocol, make valuable data available, build innovations and create value for the Ocean
ecosystem. Here are some examples of what you can build with Ocean.
- Ocean Templates use cases
- Data Pools & Data Co-op
- Infrastructures-as-a-service
- Datatoken derivative markets
- AI services integration
- Web Scraping using ML
- DataFi Applications
- Decentralised SaaS
- Others
Benefit from financial assistance, high-touch technical support, joint marketing
opportunities and referrals to potential partners.
Grantees Highlights
Since its inception in late 2021, Shipyard has funded over 2M OCEAN and helped teams build & ship their MVP. Check out some of the notable projects that are building the future of the data economy

Algovera
Build personalized decentralised AI assistants

Brainstem
IoT and mobile App to collect & use wearable health data
datalatte
dApp for people to anonymize, tokenize, and monetize their data
DataUnion Foundation
Data-Unions-as-a-service for AI and co-owned insights

Directimo
Real-estate property market
FELT Labs
Train machine learning models and compute statistics on Ocean's datasets

Transport Genie
Award winning sensor company and world leader in real-time precision monitoring for livestock