Roadmap

The team behind Ocean Protocol continues to improve the software and services at all levels: smart contracts, libraries, and marketplaces / applications. This page shows progress made thus far, where we’re headed, and Ocean whitepapers. The 2021 roadmap blog post has further detail for 2021.

Ocean Token seed distribution
Technical Primer
Marketplace Framework

Released Technical Whitepaper & Business Whitepaper

Ocean Token pre-launch distribution with 3500 Contributors in 100 countries
Grew developer team
Advisor Program launched

Proof-of-concept data marketplace released (Pleuston)
Test network created (Spree)

Development and documentation of Ocean network components
Building global community: many events, advisors, and ambassadors

Core functionality of decentralized access control
Beta network deployed (Nile)
Commons Marketplace demonstrator

V1 functionality at production grade
POA mainnet launched (Pacific)
Token bridge between Ethereum Mainnet and PoA network

Decentralized, non-custodial data marketplace
Customizable for data providers
Deployed with a strategic enterprise partner

Unlock private data while preserving privacy, by bringing compute to the data
Integrated with Enterprise Marketplace, to enable buying & selling private data while preserving privacy

ERC20 Datatokens for access control, and auto price discovery via Balancer pools
Ocean Market community marketplace. Updated market-level token design including staking
Deployed to Ethereum Mainnet
Updated system-level token design for growth and long-term sustainability

A grants DAO providing community funding for growth & long-term sustainability
Funding for: build/improve apps and integrations, outreach/community, unleash data, build/improve core software, and improve OceanDAO
Projects are proposed and curated by the community

Deployed Ocean to a second chain -- Polygon
Ocean Market users can buy and sell data on Ethereum mainnet or Polygon
Addresses high gas costs on Ethereum mainnet
Includes an OCEAN bridge between Ethereum mainnet and Polygon

Reduce friction for ocean.py and ocean.js quickstarts

In Ocean Market, can now buy and sell private data while preserving privacy

Each 3rd party market can control the credentials needed to view and publish assets in that market
Data providers can control the credentials needed to consume a data asset
Via Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). This blog post has further details

Ocean Market now has a unified interface to see data assets on several chains at once
This blog post has further details

Deployed to Moonriver, the EVM Kusama parachain in Polkadot ecosystem
Deployed to Binance Smart Chain

Deployed to Energy Web Chain (EWC), to engage with the leading energy blockchain community

Solve rug pulls and reduce impermanent loss, via one-sided staking
Data NFTs: NFT-ize base IP to enable transfer of base IP, support >1 revenue streams, and more
Help community monetize: 3rd party markets can earn fees on from swapping, staking, and consuming, and have more control over fee rates

H2O is a Non-Pegged Stable Asset backed by OCEAN, based on RAI design
Via New Order and Reflexer Labs collaboration

Ocean Market supports H2O
Reduces data price volatility in the data marketplace

A program to incentivize data consume volume

Do analytics and build AI models across data silos
While preserving privacy and decentralized control
Via Raven Protocol collaboration

Improve OceanDAO: towards greater scale, stability, and decentralization. Here's the roadmap
Improve multi-chain: deploy to more chains, improve UX, and more
Improve data services: support more data services, including IDS Connector, WebSockets, Chainlink, TheGraph, Streamr

* Software is sometimes hard to predict, so there might be delays. We will update projected dates once we are closer to a milestone's completion.

Technical Whitepaper

Thorough description of Ocean Protocol, in an academic flavor.

Business Strategy

Business and ecosystem context for Ocean Protocol. Note: partly out of date.

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