BUIDL | The #GitxChange hackathon, is open! Here's what you need to know about the Ocean bounties featured.

Rocket AlgoRank: build an Algo ranking #dapp for Ocean Protocol using Quadratic Funding & Staking.

More details: https://gitcoin.co/issue/oceanprotocol/ocean-bounties/25/4378

In the News | Forbes contributor, Oluwaseun Adeyanju explores data bias and its effects on #AI in his latest piece. He offers insights into how blockchain can improve data quality, mentioning Ocean as a solution to securely buy and sell private data:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oluwaseunadeyanju/2020/06/19/how-decentralization-could-alleviate-data-biases-in-artificial-intelligence/#7e7fef5b5248

TECH INTEGRATION | ProtoFire.io will introduce Filecoin's decentralized storage network solution into Ocean's tech stack. This builds upon the existing IPFS integration in Ocean Commons, making our tech more decentralized, and as a result safer and more secure.

ZDNet featured Ocean's Compute to Data launch in a recent article. Read the full interview with Ocean Founder Trent McConaghy to learn more about the motivation behind our v2 milestone and how it benefits data science & AI.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/compute-to-data-using-blockchain-to-decentralize-data-science-and-ai-with-the-ocean-protocol/

Telegram AMA: Bruce Pon, Ocean Protocol
Thursday 2 July, 07:30 UTC

Next week we will be joined by Bruce Pon, Founder and Board Member of Ocean Protocol — an ecosystem for the data economy.

In today's growing digital world the data economy is becoming more and more valuable. The immense amounts of data we generate and store goes largely under-utilized.

Ocean Protocol exists to help unlock this data for productive use.

Through blockchain technology, Ocean Protocol connects data providers and consumers, allowing data to be shared while guaranteeing traceability, transparency, and trust for all stakeholders involved.

Join us next Thursday to chat with Bruce!

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New upcoming Ocean AMA🦈🌊

Bruce Pon (@brucepon) will be participating in an AMA with Hillrise Capital on Telegram.

When - 2nd July, 2020 9:30 AM (CEST) 🗓
Where - Hillrise Capital’s Telegram channel (https://news.1rj.ru/str/hillrisecapitalchat) 💻

Join the Gate live AMA today at 16:30 CEST featuring Ocean Founder @Brucepon, moderated by Gate CMO Marie Tatibouet. Only on the http://Gate.io app !

https://gate.io/mobileapp

Thanks everyone for the support and this community victory. This vote competition shows how Ocean Protocol and its awesome community are growing together and reinforcing each other💪

OCEAN/USDT pair has been listed already and can be traded here https://www.gate.io/trade/OCEAN_USDT

Ocean Protocol delivers Proof-of-Concept for Daimler AG in collaboration with Daimler South East Asia.

We have successfully delivered a pilot project for Daimler. The focus of the collaboration was to explore decentralized data orchestration for Daimler, involving all the components of the Ocean Protocol with an end-to-end solution using the Ocean blockchain network, access control, data discovery, decentralized storage and Ocean’s latest release — Compute-to-Data.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-protocol-delivers-proof-of-concept-for-daimler-ag-in-collaboration-with-daimler-south-east-564aa7d959ca

Cointelegraph: "Mercedes-Benz Manufacturer Daimler to Collect Data Using Blockchain"

Mercedes-Benz’ parent company has partnered with Ocean Protocol to use blockchain technology to privately collect and package data for monetization.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/mercedes-benz-manufacturer-daimler-to-collect-data-using-blockchain

Coinbase Custody now supports deposits and withdrawals for Ocean Protocol.

https://custody.coinbase.com

Podcast: Ocean Founder Dr. Trent McConaghy discusses Compute-to-data and its monetization and privacy-preserving capabilities with insureblocks.

https://insureblocks.com/ep-117-monetizing-data-in-a-data-privacy-manner-ocean-protocols-compute-to-data

New blogpost from Ocean Protocol Founder Dr. Trent McConaghy: "On Verifying Token-Based Systems"

Trent explores tools for Token Engineering verification (evaluating the token-based system to find out whether it meets the specified requirements).

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/on-verifying-token-based-systems-c33eca757ecf

AI for Good Innovation Factory – LIVE Pitching Session

Join us next Friday, July 24th for a live pitching session hosted by AI for Good Innovation Factory. Witness as a diverse set of emerging AI entrepreneurs pitch their social good ventures to a panel of mentors and judges, including our very own Founder of Ocean Protocol Bruce Pon.

https://aiforgood.itu.int/events/ai-for-good-innovation-factory-live-pitching-session-4

Listen to the latest episode of Ocean's podcast "Voices of Data Economy" with co-hosts NiMA Asghari and Diksha Dutta, featuring Silvan Jongerius, the Managing Partner of TechGDPR and President & Founder of BerChain.

https://bit.ly/2WzgIdI

Ocean Protocol is #1 on Gitcoin's Monthly Leaderboard!
Following closely behind is Ethereum and MakerDAO.

https://gitcoin.co/leaderboard/orgs?cadence=monthly&keyword=all&product=all

Listen to the Crypto Current Podcast: “How you can build powerful Web3 apps for the data economy”

Founder of Ocean Protocol Bruce Pon spoke with Richard Carthon about our v2 release, Compute-to-Data.

https://crypto-current.co/build-powerful-web3-apps-data-economy

Not all blockchain projects need a token.

But when tokens are necessary, when is the best time to introduce them to the product? Ocean Founder Trent McConaghy explores the token design and product-market fit in his latest token engineering blogpost.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/should-product-market-fit-come-before-tokens-6c542a75c8dc

We're proud to announce that D5 will create a blockchain data marketplace on Ocean, using our create-react-app, to benefit our community of early adopters & blockchain enthusiasts. D5 is a member of the Ocean Shipyard Program to accelerate projects to the next level.

Data Scientist and D5 Co-founder Alex Svanevik: "We're excited to make blockchain data more accessible w/ Ocean. As data scientists & engineers operating in the blockchain space, we believe in the vision of Ocean: a future of the data economy on-chain. We are thrilled to contribute to this future becoming a reality"

D5 is an organization of data scientists and data engineers that provide knowledge and expertise to start-ups and corporation in creating and executing their data and AI strategies.