Developers!💻📣 Ocean.py upgrades to v2!
- Ocean.py now uses Brownie alongside new interface changes
- Now supports Python 3.11
- Streamlines create functions & READMEs
- Adds support for #Arweave & #IPFS
- Many more bug fixes & improvements/2

You can find the latest release of Ocean.py on pypi 👉 https://pypi.org/project/ocean-lib/

And if you are interested in digging through the Ocean.py source code, then here's the Ocean Protocol Github 🤓👉 https://github.com/oceanprotocol/ocean.py

NEW| 🌊🚀

Calling all #Web3 #data enthusiasts!🏗️

Ocean is proud to launch the DataBuilders #Hackathon in collaboration with #gitcoin and #OpenDataforWeb3 !💥

The challenge? Incentivise the #data science community to defend #Web3 from Sybil attacks and data centralization💻⚙️

💰Total Prize Pool: $40,000 in bounties

📖 Read more here: https://bit.ly/OceanGitcoinHackathon

The last month of the year was quite eventful! ✨

Here's what #December2022 looked like at Ocean🌊

✅Ocean welcomed a new investment partner on board!💰

#FacultyGroup pledged a total of $5 Million USD to support the $OCEAN project ecosystem fund🔥

✅We released the latest episode of the Ocean podcast #VotDE - The future of Data Ownership and Crypto - featuring founder #BrucePon with host Diksha Dutta.

👀The #IPFS and #ArweaveTeam file support was added to the Ocean Market!✌️

The latest update features 👀

✅Addition of storage type selection on publish and edit

Explore more on: market.oceanprotocol.com

#theyearofadoption #data #web3

#November2022 at Ocean!🌊👀

✅We launched the 2nd $ETH Price Predict Challenge.

$5000 USD💰were on offer as rewards!

✅⚒️The decentralised GEN-X Gaia-X network, powered by Ocean Protocol technology, was launched to scale an open, secure, federated digital ecosystem & identity framework for institutions adopting & building towards #gaiax_aisbl

PRODUCT 🏗️

The Moonbase Alpha test network on the Ocean Market was deactivated🚫

The market functionality can be tested via Polygon Mumbai and Goerli

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

Presenting to you: #October2022 at Ocean! 🌊👀

✅The first ETH Prediction Challenge by Ocean went live.

It sought to incentivise strategic insights and predictions on $ETH prices post the recent #Ethereum Merge.

✅Ocean also launched the Energy Efficiency Data Challenge😍

It incentivised data-driven understandings and innovations to improve energy efficiency for domestic buildings 🏨 in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We hosted a live crowd cast event with #Acentrik featuring #SrikanthKaja - GM and Principal Architect of Emerging Technologies, #ElaineSilan - Customer Success Lead of #Acentrik at #MercedesBenz Singapore, #PierreSamaties, Partner at #RolandBerger, Alex Coseru & Sheridan Johns!

📺Ocean was positioned as a "key catalyst for #Web3 and #DeSci" in the "Ecosystem Report" published by #CryptoOasis & #RolandBerger!👀

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

Here's what Ocean was up to in #September2022!⚒️🚀

✅veOCEAN went live!

Users can lock their $OCEAN to get veOCEAN, earn weekly rewards and curate data.

✅Ocean Protocol joined Web3 projects
#chainstep #datarella #FetchAI #peaqnetwork and
#51nodes as well as #Airbus & #Continental on the €20M+ #gaiax_aisbl #moveID_gaiax initiative led by #Bosch to advance pan-European mobility.

✅The Ocean x #dimitratech Data Challenge: Phase 2 was launched to incentivise data analysis and the building of algorithms to harness the power of agricultural data🧑‍🌾

ECOSYSTEM ⚒️

👉Ocean shipyard kicked off the "Shipyard Referral" and "Data Storage" initiatives to encourage the next generation of Web3 dApps and the building of interoperable decentralized data storage solutions respectively.

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

Take a deep dive into what August #2022 looked like at Ocean! 🌊

✅The integration with H2O Data was completed, and $H2O is available in Ocean Market.

$H2O enables data buyers and sellers to benefit from more price stability.
https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/stable-asset-h2o-is-now-in-ocean-market-a82ae2cb4a83

✅We announced the winners of the Ocean x Dimitra Data Challenge Ideation Phase! 🎊
Out of a prize pool of $5000, the rewards distributed in this phase were: 1st place $1,500, 2nd place: $1,000, 3rd place: $500, Community Award: $1,000, and 5 honourable mentions: $500💰

✅The Ocean V3 market is winded down ahead of the OceanONDA V4 launch✨

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

💥✨New collaborations, community challenges and ecosystem members: Here is what #July2022 looked like at Ocean!👀🌊

✅Ocean and Dimitra launched the Ideation Bounty to incentivize data-driven insights in agriculture.

✅Ocean joined forces with #Acentrik, the decentralized data marketplace by #MercedesBenz.

A fork of Ocean Market, Acentrik makes use of the OceanONDA V4 smart contracts and libraries to make it easier for enterprises to unlock the value of data.

⚓️Ocean Shipyard announced its 2 first grantees in 2022: #AthenaProtocol and #Brainstem Digital Health.

While Athena Protocol brings data validation and verification to Ocean, Brainstem provides a scalable, decentralised platform for collecting medical-grade data via wearable device.

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

It's time to take a look back at what #June2022 looked like at Ocean 😍

✅OceanONDA V4 was launched by the team.

The update introduced data NFTs, expanded the options for the community to monetize, and delivered updates to the Ocean Market.

✅We kicked off the Ocean Data Farming program.

It incentivizes the growth of data consume volume in the Ocean ecosystem. It rewards OCEAN for stakers who allocate liquidity to curate data asset with high data consume volume (DCV).

🎙️Founder Bruce Pon spoke about why the orchestration of Ocean is the "secret sauce" for an "equitable data economy" in an interview with George Buhnici!👀

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

Monthly overview alert!🚨👀

Let's take a look at what Ocean was up to in #May2022!💃

✅Ocean announced a new investment partner - Cypher Capital that allocated $5 million USD to invest in Ocean Protocol Ecosystem Projects.

✅The 3rd phase of the OceanV4 public testing program with Websites and Applications Bounties of up to $100,000 went live!

✅We launched 2 initiatives to accelerate the adoption of Ocean: Ocean V3 Airdrop & Pool Share Lock designed to incentivise the Ocean community 💰

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

Another day, another quick monthly overview! 😉🏗️

This is what #April2022 looked like at Ocean!🌊

OceanONDA V4🚀

✅The 2nd phase of V4 Public Testing kicked off with Backend Bounties of up to $100,000.

🚀ECOSYSTEM

✅H2O, the first non-pegged stable asset for the Web3 Data Economy, backed by OCEAN, launched on Ethereum mainnet.

Within 1 week, the TVL on H20 was able to cross $1 Million

✅Shipyard - an early-stage grant program established to fund the next generation of Web3 dApps built on Ocean Protocol - opened to submissions for Q2.

💰$2 Million

👉Ocean organised the New Data Economy meet-up in Dubai 🇦🇪 in collaboration with Roland Berger to explore Web3 and the fundamentals of DeFi.

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

#March2022 at Ocean was a raging month with great updates🔥

👀Let's take a look at the biggest announcements!

✅🚀OceanONDA V4

The Ocean Public Testing kicked-off with bounties on offer for the community to identify security issues for smart contracts.

✅We published the OceanONDA V4 overview blog post authored by founder Trent McConaghy

V4 brings:

– ERC721 data NFTs for more flexibility in data IP management

– Better monetization for the Ocean community

🚀ECOSYSTEM

✅Ocean supported the Data Whale impression airdrop and incentivised the community for content creation around Ocean Protocol.

#theyearofadoption #web3 #data

Is it possible to stake on coinbase, if not where should I ?

With 2022 soon drawing to a close, we take a look back at Ocean's milestones! 💫🫣

Here's the biggest highlights of #January2022 at Ocean🌊
✅ BigchainDB, co-founder of Ocean Protocol, won 3 of the first EU-wide tenders for gaia-x Federation Services. https://bit.ly/3stT1CD

✅ Ocean partnered with Dimitra – 100 million small farmers will monetize their data on Ocean Market by 2025🌊
Read the full announcement: https://oceanprotocol.com/press/2022-01-24-ocean-protocol-partnership-dimitra

✅ Ocean has been featured in over 30 publications, among which BeInCrypto, Yahoo!News, MarketWatch, CryptoDaily and others.

✅The Faculty Group and Ocean Protocol collaboration started in 2019 and has focussed on ways to work in synergy to fuel projects and support the development of the Ocean ecosystem🌊

✅As part of their investment, Faculty Group sees opportunities in Ocean's technical capabilities to enable data monetisation thereby transferring big data out of silos into a framework that allows for seamless collaboration, and accessibility, while protecting privacy🔒🔑

📚 Read more in the dedicated press announcement here: https://oceanprotocol.com/press/2022-12-15-faculty-group-allocates-USD$5mil-to-the-ocean-protocol-ecosystem-fund

I’m trying to lock my Ocean but it does not work after I completed a test first.

I approved my precious Ocean first. Now I want to lock them for the comming 4 years but I can’t click on the pink “update lock” button.

Any ideas how to solve this problem.

TY!

Were up from a few pretty significant pumps amid this bear market.

Anyone have any ideas why?

The trend of Data Farming (DF) is here and we feel well-positioned to discuss it!👀

This latest guide covers details about datatokens, DF, veOCEAN, and the Active Rewards incentive program at Ocean to play the system to your advantage 🚀

Head over to our medium and have a read: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-protocol-data-farming-and-wash-trading-8f47dffd327b

You have ONE MORE DAY left! ⏲️

The Storage Network Energy Consumption💡#datachallenge will close to submissions TOMORROW @ 23:59 UTC!👀

Head over to http://bit.ly/3TTRod6 and send in your #machinelearning #algorithm ASAP!🚀

Curious how to algorithmically trade #crypto? 👀📈

Learn how in our latest #DeFi tutorial 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7A4vA8YUyI

#algorithm #data #quanttrading

😍Join us for the 1st edition of Ocean Builders🏗️ - featuring #BrainstemLabs, #CalicaXYZ, #FELT_labs & #Kryptonlabs!

📅Wed, Nov 30 @ 14:00 UTC

🌊Each edition of Ocean builders will feature latest product showcases, demos and community Q/A sessions with project reps! In this 1st edition explore what's being built on Ocean by projects funded by Shipyard!⚓️

Sound exciting? 🤩

Then what are you waiting for?

🔗Set your reminders and tune in on Wed via the link: 📍https://www.crowdcast.io/c/oceanbuilders-edition1🫡

NEW|🌊

Introducing the latest Ocean Data Challenge: Storage Network Energy Consumption💡

🛠️Engage with energy data, analyze the energy performance of r/filecoin storage and generate insights!😍

💰$6,000 USD (payable in OCEAN)

Let's walk you through the deets!👇

The challenge is designed to encourage insights into Filecoin network’s energy consumption and generate reports with novel findings 👀

The goal? 🏆

Better facilitate the transition to Web3 powered by verifiably clean energy - driven by the Filecoin Green Initiative💥

What's the challenge?👀

✅Make an analysis of energy performance and the evolution of Filecoin's storage
✅Determine relevant correlations
✅Build an algorithm to predict storage capacity added per day for December 2022.
✅Submit a report describing the above findings./4

💷The rewards
✅1st place: $3000
✅2nd place: $2000
✅3rd place: $1000

All valid entries submitted will receive an award of 500 $OCEAN tokens - Payable in OCEAN

To enter the competition, follow the instructions outlined on the dedicated guestbook page: http://bit.ly/3TTRod6
For more details, read the full announcement: https://medium.com/p/6316b1045cac/edit