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.

Our next great AMA is with Ocean Protocol!

Ocean Protocol is a tokenized service layer that exposes data, storage, compute and algorithms for consumption with a set of deterministic proofs on availability and integrity that serve as verifiable service agreements. There is staking on services to signal quality, reputation and ward against Sybil Attacks.
Ocean helps to unlock data, particularly for AI. It is designed for scale and uses blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner.

oceanprotocol.com
@OceanProtocol_Community

When: July 23, 2020, 1pm GMT / 3pm CEST
Where: @amaroom

Claim a question on twitter and get a chance to win $10. We pick 10 winners!

@amaroom is a great way to discover interesting projects and also reward good questions!

Come join our AMA with @oceanprotocol in the @amaroo starting in less than an hour.

Claim the best question on twitter and get 110 $OCEAN * 10 best questions!

Tomorrow on July 27th, at 1PM GMT/3PM CEST Founder of Ocean Protocol Bruce Pon will do a special AMA with Ian Alexander Crypto https://news.1rj.ru/str/IanAlexCrypto

Please join!

Ocean Protocol is now integrated with Filecoin. Our service partner ProtoFire.io has completed a successful integration of Filecoin's decentralized cloud storage with Ocean tech
This new development allows users to fine-tune their preferences in terms of data availability and size, storage costs, and more
“Decentralized storage is fundamental to giving people control over their data and assets. We're are happy to celebrate the growing ecosystem of tools available for developers to build Web3 DApps with Ocean Protocol" Bruce Pon, Ocean Protocol
“The Filecoin dev grants program allows teams like Protofire to build valuable Web3 integrations. We’re thrilled they’ve undertaken this integration to enable users to seamlessly store their data on a decentralized network.” Jonathan Victor, Filecoin
“We believe in the power of data, decentralized data markets, & open-source tech. Filecoin was an obvious solution to better suit users’ needs in dataset size, redundancy, speed of retrieval, & cost" Manuel Garcia ProtoFire

In his latest blogpost, Ocean Founder Dr. Trent McConaghy examines how the divide and conquer method used by the Wright Brothers led to flight, as a means of leveraging design and verification strategies from other fields.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-wright-brothers-and-hierarchical-design-65aa6b8d9976

Announcing the Ocean Protocol Token Swap

- To activate the full capabilities of Ocean Protocol for Ocean V3 “Data Tokens & Staking” and Ocean V4 “Community Funding”, Ocean Protocol will execute a token swap on August 21, 2020.

- The new Ocean token contract allows us to move forward with the Ocean V3 milestone. As described in our roadmap, Ocean V3 has data tokens, incentives, staking, better composability with Ethereum and the emerging DeFi movement.

- For the over 8,000 holders of Ocean tokens, no action is required. The token swap will be handled automatically on your behalf.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/announcing-the-ocean-protocol-token-swap-august2020-370585578d6e

Ocean Protocol contributed to World Economic Forum's latest paper "A New Paradigm for Business of Data." Ocean is highlighted as an innovation that's changing the way people and businesses see and interact with data.

"Data owners have agency over their data and its pricing, while data buyers can build AI models that train on data that never leaves the platform - allowing the data seller to retain privacy and control."

Also mentioned as solutions that help companies make better data decisions are Aera Technology and Kabbage Inc.

https://www.weforum.org/reports/new-paradigm-for-business-of-data

At the community's request, Ocean Protocol’s Founder Bruce Pon joined Backwards' Basement for the #Back2Backwards podcast and discussed token utility, partnerships, and our upcoming V3 Data Tokens milestone. Listen to the full podcast here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/25v7yJnZm24Md00Bxtphs3?si=hnr7WdoET_SZrKnLRQfY7g

BigchainDB GmbH, the company behind the tech development and organization of Ocean Protocol Foundation, is officially an associate of the UN, ITU

https://www.itu.int/en/myitu/Membership/ITU-Members/SMEs/Associates