Technical Whitepaper
Thorough description of Ocean Protocol, in an academic flavor.
The team behind Ocean Protocol continues to improve the software and services at all levels: smart contracts, libraries, and marketplaces / applications. Here’s the progress made thus far, and where we’re headed.
We use the Ocean Protocol Technical Whitepaper as a guide.
November 2017
Ocean Token seed distribution
Technical Primer
February 2018
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
August 2018
Spree test network created
Ocean Enhancement Proposals introduced
Pleuston, a proof-of-concept data marketplace
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
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
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
March 2020
Decentralized/non-custodial data marketplace
Customizable marketplace for data providers
Deployed with a strategic partner
May 2020
Unlock private data while preserving privacy, by bringing compute to the data
Integrated with Marketplace: buy & sell private data, without compromising privacy
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)
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
Funding comes from Ocean Protocol Foundation and network rewards
2021 *
Updated smart contract design for better Initial Data Offerings, alongside Balancer v2 pool contracts
Production-ready Ocean Market, including Compute-to-Data
* 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.
Thorough description of Ocean Protocol, in an academic flavor.
Business and ecosystem context for Ocean Protocol. Note: partly out of date.