BrucePon briefly speaks at South Korea's Blockfesta 2020 in about 1 hour. Join the event to hear from enterprise and government presenters on how crypto may shape digitalization & finance in a post-pandemic world.

http://www.blockfesta.com/

Read our position on Civic Tech Hub and the next steps our team will take for Ocean Market.

https://twitter.com/BrucePon/status/1327256513887481857

Connect with blockchain devs & crypto practitioners at BehindtheChain, starting in 1 hour.

The Privacy & Security panel feat. Ocean's Bruce Pon, Secret Network's Tor Bair, Agoric's Mark Miller & Matter Labs's Alex G goes live at 1PM ET/7PM CET.

https://hopin.com/events/behind-the-chain-00d59b42-4890-4edf-80f0-fabdedf63d64

NEW: Purgatory. A community-maintained, list-based mechanism to filter out bad actors from the Ocean Market UI

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1327614196117278720

NEW: Data sets in purgatory will be filtered out of all searches, and are only accessible by direct link. They will stay in your bookmarks, and will continue to show up in your pool shares and transaction history.

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1327614204828856320

NEW: Accounts in purgatory receive a warning banner at all times, and are blocked from publishing any data set.

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1327614209610424320

NEW: Accounts and data sets in purgatory are filtered out of all aggregated statistics.

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1327614213896998912

NEW: All this is governed by list-purgatory, a public repo open to community contributions. Changes to its lists are reflected in Ocean Market UI immediately. The process and policies for changing the list are open for suggestions too

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1327614215729930241

BUIDL | Ocean Data Economy Challenge: datatokens ed. is here.

Play your part in unleashing data's full potential in Web3 using Ocean V3 and datatokens for the newest iteration of our hackathon.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/announcing-data-economy-challenge-datatokens-edition-32bab6e7c339

NEW: minimum viable graphs for liquidity & price history on each data set pool

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1328340742385922048

NEW: swap between OCEAN & datatoken on each pool

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1328358612444569601

Ocean Founder Bruce Pon chats with Binance tomorrow Wed. Nov. 18th at 1PM CET for a special AMA in their English Telegram channel.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/binanceexchange

We're kicking Data Economy Challenge: datatokens ed. w/ a webinar on Nov. 19th @ 3:30PM CET.

Learn how to make the most of Ocean V3's new features in the process from Trent McConaghy, Alexandru Coseru, Manan Patel & Sheridan Johns - the minds behind the challenge.

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ocean_dec_kickoff/register

PARTNERSHIP | Ocean Protocol is a proud Day 1 member of GAIA-X.

By way of BigchainDB GmbH, Ocean is contributing to the development of a better data infrastructure for Europe - one that prioritizes efficiency, security, and trustworthiness.

We're committed to this mission along with business giants from across the spectrum including BMW, Siemens, SAP, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Bosch & EDF Officiel.

"Imbalances in the current digital landscape make GAIA-X an important initiative. As a GAIA-X Day 1 Member, Ocean aims to contribute to a start-up friendly & community-led ecosystem while pushing for a space with healthy and dynamic competition." Ocean Head of Ecosystem Sheridan Johns.

The GAIA-X Summit is currently underway, today and tomorrow. Watch along as the future of Europe's data infrastructure is examined and discussed.

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

Join the Binance AMA with Ocean Founder Bruce Pon today, starting in 1 hour on their English Telegram chat.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/binanceexchange

Trent McConaghy recorded his 4th appearance on Epicenter's podcast. Stay tuned for the episode's release! Host Sébastien Couture

https://epicenter.tv/guests/trent-mcconaghy

FYI: we saw you REALLY like refreshing the market in sudden spikes, bringing our metadata cache Aquarius to its knees in last days. We did and continue doing numerous optimizations across the whole stack, so you should see less loading spinners even during high traffic spikes.

https://twitter.com/shipping_ocean/status/1329060904806256642

Ocean Founder Trent McConaghy 's unique NFT is available now - the resemblance is striking!

Thanks to all who downloaded his episode of FoundersofWeb3, Spongenuity, Super Rare, Jamie Burke & Roland Spencer for supporting Computer Aid.

https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/trent-mcconaghy-16292

TECH INTEGRATION

Ocean Protocol will integrate with Secret Network to ensure full trustlessness on Ocean Market. Publishers of data & computetodata services benefit from this collab as Ocean will leverage Secret Contracts, Ethereum bridge & their Vault.

Secret Network is also supporting Ocean's Data Economy Challenge by sponsoring a bonus prize and Enigma Co-Founder & CPO Can Kisagun acting as a judge.

Secret will be offering a bonus prize for best integration between Ocean & Secret Network.

“Combining the privacy-preserving power of Secret Network w/ Ocean’s world-leading work on data marketplaces, we are seeing our vision become reality. Our team & the Secret ecosystem are excited to work in collaboration w/ the Ocean team.” Enigma Co-Founder and CEO Guy Zyskind

"We’ve long admired the work of Secret & we’re thrilled to have them as a partner for DEC: datatokens ed. This collab gives us the opportunity to add Secret’s leading privacy infrastructure to Ocean V3 to offer users more options for secure data sharing" Ocean Founder Bruce Pon