Technical Whitepaper
This paper presents Ocean Protocol. Ocean is a decentralized protocol and network of artificial intelligence (AI) data/services.
Seed
November 2017
Ocean Token seed distribution
Technical Primer
Whitepapers
February 2018
Pre-Launch
March 2018
Ocean Token pre-launch distribution with 3500 Contributors in 100 countries
Activated community & built up the team
Announced partnership with IBM Watson AI XPRIZE
Advisor Program launched with 40 advisors in 20 cities
Bounty Program launched with 15 bounties and 88,000 PROCN tokens offered
Plankton
August 2018
Spree test network created
Ocean Enhancement Proposals introduced
Pleuston, a proof-of-concept data marketplace
v1 Alpha (Trilobite)
December 2018
Spree test network updated
Development and documentation of Ocean network components
Building global community: 130+ events, 35+ advisors, 120+ ambassadors in 40 countries, 15+ bounties
Partnerships & collaborations: MOBI Grand Challenge, Fitchain
v1 Beta (Tethys)
April 2019
Nile beta network deployed, with Service Execution Agreements, Access control, Metadata store
Project Manta Ray, a data science workflow powered by Ocean Protocol
More collaborations announced
v1 Pacific
2019
Pacific network launch, Ocean's PoA Mainnet
Token bridge between Ethereum Mainnet and PoA network
Commons Marketplace update including AI for Good channel, stability of consume flow, and metadata validation
IPFS integration for decentralized asset file hosting
Enterprise Marketplace (beta)
March 2020
Decentralized/non-custodial data marketplace
Customizable marketplace for data providers
Deployed with a strategic partner
v2 Compute-to-Data
May 2020
Unlock private data while preserving privacy, by bringing compute to the data
Integrated with Marketplace: buy & sell private data, without compromising privacy
Community Marketplace
Q3 2020 *
Marketplace for community to buy & sell datasets, complementary to enterprise marketplaces
Deployed as standalone webapp
v3 Data Tokens & v5
Q3 2020 *
Platform refactored for simplicity featuring data tokens
Updated token design in smart contracts and marketplace. Marketplace includes incentives and staking (v3)
On a permissionless substrate (v5)
v4 Community Funding
Q4 2020 *
Community funding for software development (core, applications, infrastructure), for community/ecosystem work, and to incentivize data supply (v4). Including grants to incentivize for data.
Funding comes from the network reward
Projects are proposed and curated by the community
* 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.
Deep Dive Into Our Papers
Business Strategy
This document presents a summary of the business model and ecosystem of Ocean Protocol.
It is complementary to the technical whitepaper for Ocean Protocol.
Marketplace Framework
This document presents a summary of the core marketplace attributes and components required to facilitate the successful deployment of the decentralized data exchange protocol and network called Ocean Protocol.
It is complementary to the technical whitepaper for Ocean Protocol.