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

Introducing Ocean Academy

Ocean Academy is a community-led, free educational resource to learn about Ocean Protocol. Earn your Ocean certification by completing the 23-module course and begin creating value in the data economy. Dive in and learn more about the course here. https://oceanacademy.io

The course covers the basic concepts of blockchain and data science workflows before navigating through the foundations of Ocean's smart contracts and protocol. You'll wrap up the program with real-world use cases for the technology.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/introducing-ocean-academy-551c4e769cb7

Selling data on the upcoming Ocean Market is simple. In his latest blogpost, Ocean Founder Trent McConaghy details the 3 types of data users might sell and how to earn.

1 - Your Proprietary Data
This is personal data like location data, browser history or data exported from website.

2 - Others' Proprietary Data
This is personal data that you've acquired the rights to.

3 - Open Data that you've added value to.
This is publicly available data that you've enhanced via tagging, cleaning, engineering, or more. Using Ocean Market, you can earn the sale value by publishing and selling all three types of data.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/on-selling-data-in-ocean-market-9afcfa1e6e43

Ocean Advisor Andreas Fauler ponders city data economies and addresses challenges faced with regulation & bootstrapping ecosystems in a new article.

Using Ocean Protocol technology, he describes what phased data-based innovation and synergy can look like for European society, as a whole.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/a-privacy-preserving-public-private-statistics-ecosystem-for-europe-cdc3b67a6614