Data is a new asset class.
Ocean Protocol unlocks the value of data.
Data owners and consumers use Ocean Market app to publish, discover, and consume data assets in a secure, privacy-preserving fashion. OCEAN holders stake liquidity to data pools.
Developers use Ocean libraries to build their own data wallets, exchanges, and more.
Ocean datatokens turn data into data assets. This enables data wallets, data exchanges, and data co-ops by leveraging crypto wallets, exchanges, and other decentralized finance (DeFi) tools.
Our Mission
Society is becoming increasingly reliant on data, especially with the advent of AI. However, a small handful of organizations with both massive data assets and AI capabilities attained worrying levels of control which is a danger to a free and open society.
We aim to unlock data, for more equitable outcomes for users of data, using a thoughtful application of both technology and governance.
Our team and community is committed to kick-starting a New Data Economy that reaches every single person, company and device, giving power back to data owners and enabling people to capture value from data to better our world.
Ocean Protocol is governed by a Singapore based non-profit foundation, whose mandate is to ensure open access to the protocol and platform, provide data governance, encourage the network ecosystem growth, and take measures to ensure that the platform becomes ever more decentralized with time.
The Ocean Protocol Foundation has contracted BigchainDB to build the core protocol, network, marketing, and community activities.
DATATOKENS
On-ramp and off-ramp for data assets into DeFi
Ocean makes it easy to publish data services (deploy and mint ERC20 datatokens), and to consume data services (spend datatokens). Crypto wallets, exchanges, and DAOs become *data* wallets, exchanges, and DAOs.
MARKETPLACES
Data Marketplaces with Blockchain Superpowers
Use Ocean Market to publish data, stake on data (curate), and buy data. Earn by selling, staking, or running your own fork of Ocean Market. Data has automatic price discovery. Data is published as interoperable ERC20 datatokens. Compute-to-data enables private data to be bought & sold. It's a decentralized exchange (DEX), tuned for data.
COMPUTE-TO-DATA
Buy & Sell Private Data, While Preserving Privacy
Compute-to-data resolves the tradeoff between the benefits of using private data, and the risks of exposing it. It lets the data stay on-premise, yet allows 3rd parties to run specific compute jobs on it to get useful compute results like averaging or building an AI model.
DATA SCIENCE
More Data, Provenance, and Earning Opportunities
As a data scientist or AI practitioner, you can benefit from access to more data (including private data), crypto-secured provenance in data & AI training, and income opportunities for selling data and curating data.