We're excited to announce the launch of Ocean Shipyard, an early-stage program for Web3 focused startups & projects to add value to the Data Economy while using Ocean technology. Ocean Protocol Foundation has allocated 20M $OCEAN to fund these projects.

Ocean Shipyard advances projects by providing direct support to teams. In addition to our in-house expertise in blockchain, AI, and data, we advise Shipyard participants in building with Ocean tech, the art of community building, and running bizdev.

“There are many great minds & ideas in Web3. We want to harness the innovative thinking that exists within and beyond our community to advance the Data Economy. Ocean Shipyard is a launchpad for the next big thing in blockchain and data.” Sheridan Johns, Ocean's Head of Ecosystem.

We're looking for startups & entrepreneurs who are creating opensource software, with a real world use case, that will benefit the broader Ocean ecosystem. Apply today to take your project to the next level!

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/announcing-the-ocean-shipyard-program-612f9256b5b7

Here's a sneak peak of our new Ocean Market, more to come next week.

Watch Bruce Pon at Asia Berlin Summit in the State of Blockchain Panel with Silvan Jongerius, Irene Adamski, Melanie Mohr, moderated by Diksha Dutta, starting now.

https://www.asia.berlin

Here's a wrap-up of August at Ocean Protocol.
Major announcements include:
$OCEAN listed on Binance and Poloniex
Ocean in MIT Technology Review
"The Digital Future" documentary premiered on ARTEfr
We have more exciting news coming!

In partnership with Energy Web, Ocean Protocol will build a bridge between our data marketplaces and the EW-DOS, unveiling data that can improve renewable energy grid integration & optimize IoT devices.
Read more on Crowdfund Insider by Omar Faridi

Ocean Market is an open-source community marketplace for data. It will be publicly available as part of our v3 release.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-market-an-open-source-community-marketplace-for-data-4b99bedacdc3

PARTNERSHIP

Ocean is working with Balancer Labs to create the first AMM based data market and the world’s first Initial Data Offering (IDO) launchpad, continuing our mission to unlock data for the advancement of AI & Web3.

“Data is a 377B EUR market in Europe alone. But how to price it has been a long-standing challenge. Ocean Market solves this using AMM pools powered by Balancer. It’s been a pleasure to work w/ the Balancer team to enable a world-leading data marketplace," Trent McConaghy Ocean Protocol Founder

"At Balancer, we continuously explore new ways to apply AMMs. Ocean Protocol’s usage of Balancer AMMs promises to add a massive new asset class -- data -- to the DeFi’s assets under management,” Fernando Martinelli, CEO & Founder of Balancer Labs

https://oceanprotocol.com/press/2020-09-24-ocean-collaborates-with-balancer-first-amm-based-data-market

On Sep 25/26, over $150M worth of tokens were stolen from KuCoin exchange, and as part of the theft, over 21M Ocean, worth over $8.6M, were taken. Since yesterday, we have been working to find a solution and consulting with KuCoin.

As a first action to protect Ocean token holders, we have paused the OCEAN contract. We will update the community with more information in the coming hours.

Thank you for your support.

The Ocean Protocol hard fork is complete. You can find the new Ocean contract address on our website.

https://oceanprotocol.com/token

Please read our blogpost for more details and reach out to us on Telegram if you have further questions. Thank you for your patience and support.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/september-2020-hard-fork-ocean-token-completed-8142059361d7

Join Ocean Founder Trent McConaghy next Monday, October 5th at 2PM CEST for an AMA on Incentives and Staking in v3 datatokens. Ask your questions in our Telegram chat using #OceanAMA

Tokens recovered from the KuCoin hack have been returned to KuCoin wallets. All OCEAN user funds now reside with KuCoin.

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1310985516498681856

The OCEAN token is now available on BigONE Exchange with $OCEAN/USDT pair.

The Ocean token is designed with growth and sustainability in mind. In his latest blogpost, Ocean Founder Trent McConaghy describes the system design in detail, including staking, governance, and OCEAN as a unit of exchange.

Read more https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-token-model-3e4e7af210f9

EVENT

Ocean will be part of the GAIA-X Summit on November 18-19. Save the date and register for the event, bringing great science, business, & political minds together to create a federated data infrastructure for Europe.

https://events.talque.com/gaia-x-summit/en/6iq6yI5LPSxaIRA6cmnq

PARTNERSHIP

OCEAN will be listed on www.travala.com

You will soon be able to book accommodations and flights for worldwide travel with your $OCEAN tokens.

Read more about the collaboration on our website.

https://oceanprotocol.com/press/2020-10-09-travala-partnership-integrate-with-ocean-token

The DeFi&Banking panel can be viewed at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEgH1oOo11g

We're joining Odyssey Momentum.

From Nov. 13-15, Odyssey 2020 is taking on 21 challenges that shape this century: conflict prevention, self-sovereign identity & more. Ocean is a building block for the Conscious City track & we are mentoring teams.

https://www.odyssey.org

Robert Miller of ConsenSysHealth talks about healthcare data in a new episode of Voices of the Data Economy.

Healthcare data "has a unique intimacy w/your body. It is some of the only data we have that is not autobiographical, but it's biographical."

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/voices-of-the-data-economy-robert-miller-healthcare-data-be78e2c19c84