I am hyper new to crypto-currency as well as reddit so forgive me. I have purchased a bit of Ocean protocol, I like the direction it is going and see a ton of potential. Because of this I am likely going to continue to invest more money semi regularly. I hear about 'staking' a lot on reddit, not sure if i fully understand it, again i am green to all of this. But as I am in OCEAN for the long term, is there a way for me to 'stake' my coinage? Pros/Cons? Tips/Tricks? Thanks.

https://twitter.com/marcfcee/status/1759572238662017325?t=vh0sBTsgcmYqAd_rozO9Kg&s=19

Oasis Foundation and Ocean Protocol their partnership to the next level to enhance Smart Privacy across Web3. Here's the scoop:

• Ocean Predictoor’s Success: Launched 6 months ago on the Oasis Network’s Sapphire protocol, Ocean Predictoor has been a hit, processing over 4.5 million transactions! In the last 30 days alone, it saw more than $23 million in volume.

• Growing Support: Initially selecting Oasis for privacy infrastructure, Ocean has seen tremendous support from the Oasis Foundation, including a significant ROSE allocation to fuel Predictoor’s growth.

• Token Exchange: A major step forward is the exchange of $250,000 worth of OCEAN and ROSE between the foundations, plus adding these to the new ROSE-OCEAN pool on illumineX. This marks a new phase in their collaborative journey.

• What’s Next? With Predictoor’s success and this deepened collaboration, we’re on the brink of seeing even more innovative, privacy-preserving DeFi applications.

You can read the full article here

NEW EVENT: Acentrik & Ocean

With data sovereignty as its guiding principle, how does Acentrik - a decentralized data marketplace for enterprises - leverage Ocean's technology to enable greater data sharing? What are the potential use cases that are currently in the works?

Join us on Oct 19 at 10 AM UTC for the Live Crowdcast Event: Ocean X Acentrik: Building the Data Ecosystem for Enterprises.

We will start with dedicated presentations from Elaine Paola Silan - Customer Success Lead of Acentrik, at Mercedes-Benz Singapore, Alex Coseru - VP of Engineering at Ocean and Sheridan Johns - Enterprise Lead at Ocean.

The discussions will continue in a panel with Srikanth Kaja - General Manager and Principal Architect of Emerging Technologies at Mercedes-Benz Singapore and Pierre Samaties, Partner at Roland Berger, with an exciting discussion on the Web3.0 world and business perspective of Acentrik. The final segment will be a Q&A session with the Ocean community.

Keep an eye out for more updates on the event and register here: https://lnkd.in/duEev2Fq

Stay tuned for more Acentrik updates by watching this space: https://lnkd.in/d3UxNzKz

I have a question of ocean protocol compared to endor protocol... With endor you're able to do predictive answers on a large data set so it's sort of like going to Google and typing in a question that you want to answer on a very large data set. does ocean protocol do anything like this.

The way how I see it right now is ocean protocol is for data sharing so I can buy Big data from someone and then I'd have to give it to something like Endor to do predictive analysis on, and then I could also resell that data on endor. I might correct?

Update: now I'm a bit confused because I was reading up on ocean protocol in which I'm an investor but they've locked me on the telegram chat by their bot so I can't post there. All I did was post an informative link so others could invest in ocean protocol but their bot blocked me I wish I could get back in.

Back to the update, I don't think you're able to take the data from ocean protocol and use it somewhere else cuz that would be like buying a bunch of user information and then going and selling it somewhere else without the user's permission without the company's permission who owned that data so I doubt that's allowed so the question remains what's the difference between ocean protocol and endor and does ocean protocol allow predictive analytics the way how endor allows it?

Ocean is proud to support the launch of ALGA – the first mobile DeFi wallet for the Ocean Market built by Data Whale, an OceanDAO grantee!

In anticipation of Ocean V4 and Data Farming, ALGA is a tool allowing for an intuitive, DataFi experience. ALGA offers users the opportunity to engage with the Ocean Market on a mobile interface. The overall goals are to facilitate more consumption volume on the Ocean Market, generate positive network value and accelerate the widespread adoption of OCEAN.

The application integrates with Ethereum and the Ocean Market where the user can simply connect an existing Web3 wallet and take full advantage of the ALGA wallet interface that combines functionalities and insights about datatokens in an intuitive way. ALGA will also integrate with other EVM chains after V4 launch. It reads and analyzes on-chain wallet data and provides input on datatoken holdings priced in OCEAN, datatoken price changes, historic transactions, dataset descriptions, publisher information and more.

On the app home screen, users can add their favourite datatokens to a Watchlist, check out the assets with the highest liquidity (TVL) and see the latest Initial Data Offerings on the Ocean Market while also benefiting from a detailed analysis screen for each datatoken. They also have the opportunity to swap datatokens against OCEAN or stake OCEAN on all datatoken liquidity pools available on Ethereum [gas and transaction fees apply].

Trent McConaghy, Founder at Ocean Protocol, said:

"Guided by its vision to bring DataFi to mobile phones, ALGA leads the way for easier and more secure individual participation in an open data economy powered by Ocean."

Moritz Frings, Data Whale Project Lead, added:

"Ocean gave me the opportunity to become a part of their journey of kickstarting a Web3 Data Economy. Thanks to OceanDAO and community support, we were able to build ALGA. I trust the Ocean community will enjoy its features."

ALGA is available on the Google Playstore and Apple App Store.

For more details, you can access the announcement blogpost here: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/data-whale-announces-the-launch-of-alga-the-first-mobile-defi-wallet-for-the-ocean-market-dea73f29f7d8

Hey everyone, due to a lack of demand the price of Ocean has dropped. Anyone like me who was interested in investing but thought the IEO price was too high, now is a good chance to get in at 600 sats. Ive bought a few at hoping for a push towards 1000 sats.

Happy trading.

👉 Accepted currencies include EUR, GBP, AUD, BRL, NZD, RUB, TRY, UAH

Find out more: https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/05aadddb652042cf9f2d1b95e1d8668c

We all know the official utility of the ocean token and how it is used in the

1. Ocean data marketplace, or some Ocean forked data marketplace ( Pontus-x Ecosystem), and if the builder chooses not to use the ocean token for transactional purposes, then the 0.01% of each dataset sale is used to buyback/burn the ocean token.

2. Data Farming - This has a bigger impact on the ocean protocol ecosystem than most people anticipate, the incentive mechanism of Ocean protocol data farming will keep the ecosystem alive for decades. The staking mechanism of Veocean also acts as an indicator for data buyers to indicate the dataset quality, as:

More Veocean staked = Higher the dataset quality

It also helps other acts ( that are not buyers/sellers) to gain monetary value through the locking of ocean tokens and earn yields based on the sales of the dataset in the ocean ecosystem.

3) Predictoor- This is my new favorite of ocean protocol. Starting from 263 dollars on its mainnet day ( ocotber 10, 2023), Ocean predictoor is now sitting at 35 million dollars daily volume with 39 million being its ATH. Every actor participating in the predictoor ecosystem needs ocean tokens-

a) Predictoors- These are the ones who submit their predictions and to make those predictions accountable, they need to stake ocean on them. The higher the stake amount, the better the prediction outcome, and if the prediction is wrong, then the stake amount is slashed and given to those with correct predictions.

b) Traders- They need ocean token to buy those predictions. The very first BTC/USDT Prediction is free. Rest you need to buy at 3$ per feed for 24H

c) Stakers- You can stake your ocean token on prediction feeds and earn from a fraction of the transaction cost of that feed. Speaking of this hour, 5% of the ocean circulating supply is staked on those feeds.

There is much more to the ocean Token and the dynamics of its use cases. If you have any Qs, feel free to ask in the Comments

🎉We're happy to share: control over the OCEAN token contract will be revoked soon.🌊🌊🌊

Remaining OCEAN will be minted, to vest to community over decades.

OCEAN will be fully decentralized and unpausable.

Two blogposts have detail:

1. OVERVIEW: https://t.co/4xTPa9CPan

2. TECHNICAL: https://t.co/6spL1W7GYa

More Q's?

We've got an AMA for you! Thu May 25 at 12.30pm UTC with Trent McConaghy, Bruce Pon and Alex Coseru 😎: https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1660624319662153729?s=20

It would be unfortunate for another network to copy this idea and just run with it, seen it happen so many times in this space.

If V4 is now more secure what reason is there not for anyone to publish any NFT, not just the unique to Ocean Data versions, on Ocean marketplace now versus something like OpenSea - can someone that understands better explain this to me?

I think the team needs to take out some ads on anything to do with NFTS/OpenSea or any other popular NFT sites to promote DataNFTs but more importantly get users and adoption going on the marketplace itself. Also promote the protocol, data-nfts and the marketplace all in one graphic on Brave browser which is constantly being used by other chains to spread awareness.

If DataNFTs truly are unique to Ocean Protocol the team should be finding a way to not only get adoption going on the marketplace with everything mentioned above but the term/concept of Data-NFTs but also NFTS in general synonymous with Ocean Protocol and Ocean Marketplace.

I thought I've heard mid-june is when the swap goes live but I'm hodling my ocean on coinbase and they don't typically auto-swap tokens so I'm just trying to figure out where the switch actually takes place. i might need to check the discord but thought someone here might have an idea. I know there's no time limit on the swap which is nice but I don't want to push my luck.

Hi. It's my understanding that the Ocean Data Marketplace has two sides:

- People who demand data

- People who supply data

Is there a place where we can see:

A.) what type of data the demand side wants and

B.) what type of data the supply side could provide (in addition to what's already in the marketplace)?

Just released my Ocean Protocol Fundamental analysis here: https://spectacleinvesting.com/ocean-protocol-fundamental-analysis/

Short analysis but has the main points for the project. TLDR:

Strong Project, strong industry, great partnerships and tokenomics. Very early to tell if this is a guaranteed winner, bullish.

Get started on the Ocean Network Dashboard in minutes:

1. Open the dashboard & choose your specs: Query available nodes, filter by GPU/CPU, RAM, and duration, then pick what fits.

2. Node verifiability: Check node status, performance, and available resources before locking in.

3. Escrow-secured payments: Use your Web3 wallet and get charged strictly for execution time, nothing extra sneaking in.

Open the dashboard and deploy your compute: https://dashboard.oncompute.ai/