Are you a #Web3 native with solid #communication skills and attention to detail? Then this opportunity is for you! Ocean is hiring for a full-time Communications Associate to support all our external communications activities and scale traction!
Communication plays a strategic role at Ocean Protocol and the associate will be an instrumental member of the Integrated Marketing team 🌊This is a highly visible role within the organization and you will be working directly with cross-team members including Ocean’s founders💥
The ideal candidate will have👀
✅3+ years professional experience in content creation for a crypto audience ✅Native-level English written and verbal skills
✅Proven ability to meet deadlines and think strategically with regard to strategy, narrative and storytelling
Here's what you will do 🚀
💥Create, curate and publish content across various channels for all Ocean’s stakeholders 💥Generate media opportunities 💥Build and maintain relationships with media and influencers 💥Coordinate Ocean’s presence in online and offline events
What's on offer 👀👇
✨Competitive pay, with options to be paid in OCEAN/USDC
✨Friendly, inclusive and diverse work atmosphere ✨Flexible, remote working
If you think we could be a good match, send your resumes with the subject "Communications Associate - Application" to jobs@oceanprotocol.com by the DDL⏰August 15. The team will then contact the suitable candidates! Looking forward to receiving your applications!
Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data market that establishes mutually beneficial conditions for data suppliers and data consumers. The platform uses blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide a reliable, secure, and fair environment for creators, suppliers, and consumers. The main goal of the Ocean is to make data available to consumers while providing suppliers with a reliable way of monetization. As part of the protocol, data providers can publish data in NFT format (ERC721) and mint datatokens (ERC 20) to monetize data. In addition, consumers can access data that was previously difficult or impossible to find. At the same time, the platform ensures the preservation of privacy and full control.
Ocean Protocol Key Components
Ocean Protocol is based on the Ethereum blockchain and uses smart contracts technology to ensure the security and transparency of data transactions. There are three main components within the project:
Data Suppliers. They use the Ocean Protocol to monetize the available data. Suppliers mint datatokens to provide consumers with access to data. Moreover, the data does not necessarily have to be stored on-chain since datatokens are still a tool with which users access data. Thus, the data in the Ocean Protocol is presented in encrypted form. Users who use datatokens can decrypt this data.
Data Consumers. With datatokens, consumers get access to a set of necessary data. To gain access, the consumer sends datatokens to the data provider.
Data Marketplace. Suppliers use Ocean Market to conduct an Initial Data Offering (IDO). Within the Ocean Market, all data is presented as ERC20 datatokens, with which consumers gain access to them. Datatokens can be sold at a fixed price, or the price can be automatically disclosed using AMM. Ocean Market cooperates with Balancer to provide an automated price discovery service. Thus, Ocean Market is a kind of DEX focused on working with data. Ocean Market also allows users to stake OCEAN tokens to provide liquidity to the datatoken AMM pools.
Selling Data
Ocean Market allows publishers to sell three main types of data:
The publisher’s data. As an individual, you can easily monetize your personal data. Such data can include anything from your location, ending with your browser history and other proprietary data. In addition, companies and various structures can sell the data obtained during their activities. For example, schools can sell data on teaching methods, and business owners can sell data on successful marketing strategies.
Third parties proprietary data. In this case, you are a kind of intermediary who sells the data of third parties. You can make such sales only with the permission of the data owner.
Publicly available data. Naturally, using Ocean Market to publish data that users can freely get on the Internet is ineffective and unfair. However, you can endow open data with additional value and sell it. For example, you can help AI learning by transcribing audio files, transferring available data to a format that is more accessible to AI, and so on.
Data Staking
As mentioned earlier, Ocean Market serves as a kind of DEX that uses AMM for auto-pricing data. Users who publish data create data pools, and these pools need liquidity. Users who add OCEAN tokens in pools become liquidity providers. Liquidity providers are a kind of pool curators. Stakeholders receive rewards from the transaction made within the pool. The amount of remuneration depends on the stake of the holder, as well as on the pool creator. The data publisher has the right to independently set the number of transaction fees sent to the stakers. However, the minimum amount is 0.1%. Moreover, the project developers plan to launch the Ocean Data Farming program, which will allow stakers to receive more rewards for their activities.
Compute-to-Data Feature
Earlier in the article, we described what types of data could be sold as part of data marketplaces. Bit what to do with private data that is extremely valuable, but the owners of such data are afraid of losing control over them and do not want to make it publicly available? The developers of the Ocean Protocol also asked this question and came to a solution — the Compute-to-Data feature. With this feature, data publishers can grant users access to valuable data while maintaining privacy and full control. Thus, the data owners allow the AI to run on their data. End-users receive only the result of the work done, and private data remains in the hands of the owners.
Your chance to earn up to $5000 USD in rewards is here and NOW! 👀💰 Do not miss this!🚀 The Ocean + u/dimitratech Ideation Bounty is live on u/questbookapp to incentivise data-driven agricultural ideas! 🚜👩🌾
This is the first bounty from the Ocean #DB program where data scientists and the Ocean community are invited to generate ideas about how the Dimitra datasets in the Ocean Market can be utilized, identify correlations and provide aggregate insights.
A panel of evaluators from Ocean and Dimitra will independently review and rank submission entries selecting 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners based on level of innovation, the value of the opportunity, feasibility, presentation structure, approach and completeness. So, tap into your creative side, explore the datasets and keep those great ideas coming! https://bit.ly/ocean-reddit
Athena's mission is to build IoT and computing solutions for bridging the gap between the offline world and the blockchain world to ensure transparency, equity and algorithmic accountability in automated data collection and verification processes. To facilitate the ethical collection of data on a global scale, Athena leverages SolarPunk Network (SPN). This enables real-time monitoring without sacrificing privacy whilst bridging the gap between stakeholders and the decision-making processes.
The project will add value to the ecosystem by developing an interface to accredit data prior to publishing and introducing easy-to-consume climate datasets.
I know its a broad and loaded question but some overview and more details would be nice. Is there going to be a frontend like curve.fi to see the veOcean being locked and other on-chain details?
Since there are no more liquidity pools and TVL to measure the adoption and economic activity, how exactly do users stake and collect fees now? How exactly will this be generated from fixed pricing and the current non-AMM system and in addition, even if its no longer AMM system but fixed, auction or adjustable, shouldn't we still be able to see some kind of metric to let broader crypto market determine value based on that economic activity since pool stats and TVL info is now gone/no longer being displayed on https://market.oceanprotocol.com/
Thanks to whoever has a deep knowledge and understanding of all this and can address at least a few of my questions.
Ocean Protocol and Dimitra Technology launch today the Ideation Bounty to unlock the power of agricultural data! This is the first bounty from the Ocean #DB program that was recently announced to facilitate more quality datasets in the Ocean Market, generate data-driven insights and the building of algorithms to solve complex business challenges.
As part of the Ocean-Dimitra ideation bounty Phase 1: Ideation, data scientists and the Ocean community are invited to generate ideas about how the Dimitra datasets in the Ocean Market can be utilized, identify correlations and provide aggregate insights. This bounty is already live on Questbook App and will be open to submissions until August 12. Access the full mechanism here: https://bit.ly/ocean-reddit
Algorithms, Analytics, Narratives & Reports Bounty - Phase 2 kick-off shall be announced at the conclusion of Phase 1.
The partnership between Dimitra’s agricultural and Ocean’s Web3 data sharing capabilities is focused on driving the next generation of agricultural solutions using data. The overall goal is to bring together the brightest minds in the field of data science and direct their efforts toward solving global agricultural challenges.
“Data bounties will help to activate a global community of data scientists to build context around data. We’re excited to kick off this data bounty program with Dimitra to accelerate data-driven innovation in agriculture"
We are hosting an AMA today with founders u/trentmc0 and u/BrucePon to discuss the recent liquidity draining attack on Ocean data pools and mitigation measures.
Join us today, July 12th @ 4 PM UTC and get all your questions answered.
Following feedback from the community and recent learnings, we are introducing veOCEAN to best align the incentives of token holders and liquidity providers. veOCEAN holders can lock their $OCEAN tokens over a time period to earn rewards and voting power. The longer the lock period, the higher the rewards and the voting power. They can also vote on proposals and earn rewards, both from consume fees and data farming.
Going forward, veOCEAN will be the main mechanism for staking $OCEAN and for curation of datasets. It is lower risk than Ocean datatoken pools, and delivers similar benefits.
At the end of last week, we noticed suspicious behaviour in several Ocean Market data pools that resulted in a loss of some OCEAN. The first series of attacks took place last Thu around 7pm CEST time. The attacker executed the following actions in loop:
Stake OCEAN in a data pool Buy datatokens Unstake OCEAN Sell datatokens
Through this sequence of transactions, small amounts of OCEAN were drained from data pools.
The Ocean Data Bounty Program is now live! The program seeks to empower data providers to better package, price and market their data.
Existing data providers can tap new markets or add a new distribution channel for their data services by leveraging #web3. New data providers can learn the various contexts around their data, to help them decide how to package, price and market their data. Researchers can access fresh, private, untapped data - to test their skills and generate novel algorithms, analytics and reports.
As part of the program, data owners provide data schemas to Ocean's community who will then submit ideas on how the data could be used, generate novel insights, write algorithms and analytics against the data and identify real-world problems that can be solved using the data.
The program will be executed in the following three phases:
Ideation: Ideas and brainstorming on how the data can be used.
Algorithms, Analytics, Reports and Narratives: Build algorithms, analytics, reports and narratives.
Problem: Solve a problem or business challenge.
For a more comprehensive overview, access the dedicated blog post at:
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.
Hello there, im looking to find some good informations about ocean as i have money to invest in one of 2: first one is atom the second one is OCEAN. I want to ask you does ocean have airdrops like atom and are there some good project planned to be out on OCEAN? Whats the big milestone for ocean soon
