Technical Whitepaper
Thorough description of Ocean Protocol, in an academic flavor.
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 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 Enterprise Marketplace: buy & sell private data while preserving privacy
v3 Datatokens
October 2020
Platform refactored for simplicity featuring datatokens and Balancer pools
Running on Ethereum Mainnet
Updated token design in smart contracts including incentives and staking
Ocean Market (beta) as a community marketplace to buy & sell datasets, and introducing Initial Data Offerings (IDO)
OceanDAO
December 2020
A grants DAO providing community funding for growth & long-term sustainability
Funding for: build/improve apps and integrations, outreach/community, unleash data, and build/improve core software
Projects are proposed and curated by the community
Compute-to-Data in Ocean Market
Early Q1 2021 *
In Ocean Market: buy & sell private data while preserving privacy
Mitigates risk of buyer-supplied malicious algorithms, via whitelisted algorithms or workflow for publisher to vet algorithms
v4 Better IDOs
Early Q2 2021 *
Updated smart contract design for better Initial Data Offerings, alongside Balancer v2 pool contracts
More flexible fees and datatoken templates
Production-ready Ocean Market
Ocean Data Farming
Start in Q2 2021 *
A program to incentivize a supply of relevant and high-quality data assets
Earn py providing liquidity to OCEAN-datatoken pools
Amount earned will be multiplied by degree of dataset consumption
* 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.
Ocean Papers
Business Strategy
Business and ecosystem context for Ocean Protocol. Note: partly out of date.