🏦 Deposits have opened on @bitfinex for their forthcoming listing of $OCEAN.

Bitfinex provides access to P2P financing, an OTC market, and margin trading for a wide selection of digital assets and derivatives trading.

#Web3Weekend by @ETHGlobal is starting tomorrow! Watch our video workshop for:

🏆 Ocean-sponsored bounties & submission criteria (@manan77patel)
💻 Compute-to-Data, Ocean's privacy-preserving feature to buy & sell data (@kremalicious)

▶️ Stream it at https://notion.so/1a3ea67b314d4c23bf8741daf8b1b69e#16178bc6d86d4d5b9e43f159a0d06258

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1397900455351664640

Try our new Mutual Liquidity Pool with @AllianceBlock
on @PopT0wn, launched this week! Farm in the #MLP worth $200k to receive rewards in $OCEAN, $POP & $ALBT.

👉 https://new.pop.town

Learn more about program rewards & farm responsibly: https://t.co/ortXi2WZy1?amp=1

$OCEAN has been listed on Bitfinex, and trading is now available in the following pairings:

• $OCEAN / $USD
• $OCEAN / $USDT

#TheYearOfScaling

ICYMI | The best of Ocean this week 🌊

🤝 We launched a Mutual Liquidity Pool worth $200k w/ @AllianceBlock on @PoPt0wn. This $OCEAN / $ALBT #MLP benefits all our communities & cements our collaboration. Farmers receive rewards in $OCEAN, $POP & $ALBT. bit.ly/2RRMAuP

📰 Ocean's Catena-X collaboration with @BoschGlobal & @Fetch_ai was reported in the media by @crowdfundinside, @coinspeaker & @Enterprise_Time.

🪙 $OCEAN has been listed on @bitfinex in $OCEAN / $USD and $OCEAN / $USDt pairings. bit.ly/3c1Wl0t

👨🏻‍🏫 Ocean's Head of Ecosystem @sjohns spoke on @BDVA_PPP's #DataWeek panel “Key technology enablers for secure data sharing respectful of data sovereignty”.bit.ly/3wCVXNN

📺 Ocean is sponsoring @ETHGlobal's #Web3Weekend hackathon, which kicked off today, with USDC $5k in prizes. web3.ethglobal.co

#TheYearOfScaling

PARTNERSHIP | We're teaming up with Raven Protocol to add #FederatedLearning to Ocean Market via Compute-to-Data. Raven's decentralized algorithms allow cost-efficient training of neural networks.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-protocol-and-raven-protocol-to-add-federated-learning-to-ocean-market-via-compute-to-data-f0314575d3c8

OceanDAO Round 6 is open! We're investing 180k $OCEAN into #DataScience & #AI projects that grow the Ocean ecosystem & the #OpenDataEconomy. 35% of those funds are earmarked for new teams previously unfunded by the DAO.

Apply & create the future for data👇

https://oceanprotocol.com/dao

Congratulations to the all the winners & finalists of @ETHGlobal's #Web3Weekend! Trophy Special shout-out to the winners of the Ocean bounties:

🥇 MeMeta
🥈 The Convo Space
🥉 Ocean CLI

https://idiom-bytes.medium.com/oceandao-roadmap-update-mid-2021-3ea6ba80795d

OCEANDAO ROADMAP | We're excited to reveal a near-term roadmap for OceanDAO after weeks of reviewing feedback, challenges, processes, and available tooling. 🔍

This is the first of many steps to provide transparency and to scale community funding. 🧾

With the roadmap, we want to involve the community at large in the challenges, goals & exciting developments ahead for OceanDAO. 🏗

Our mission is to create new ways to improve DAO collaboration so we can embark together on the journey to the future of decentralized data. 💻

We have increased the total grant amount to 272,000 $OCEAN for Round 6! By doing so, we hope to encourage more project submissions to build the Ocean ecosystem, and #DeFi as a whole.

Submit your grant proposal by June 1st midnight GMT 👇

https://oceanprotocol.com/dao

📰 @GoldmanSachs says crypto could power the Data Economy in a new report detailing a bright future for blockchains.

#TheYearOfScaling

👉 https://t.co/TRmdElEcZa?amp=1

🧑🏽‍🔬 @tokengineering Academy are seeking co-researchers on #OceanMarket Balancer simulations who have a solid understanding of Balancer Pools / AMMs & smart contracts.

📆 Apply by Jun 7 @ 6pm CEST: https://forms.gle/NBQLYpFL7CmbiXAE8

🔖 Learn more: https://tokenengineeringcommunity.github.io/website/docs/academy-welcome/#ocean-markets--balancer-simulations

@BalancerLabs

If you've been wondering how to make the most of your $OCEAN, @manan77patel, Growth Accelerator at Ocean Protocol, put together a helpful guide for:

• Staking on #OceanMarket
• Liquidity Provision
• Lending & Borrowing

#TheYearOfScaling

👉 https://t.co/6Kucb5CRAY?amp=1

OCEAN ROADMAP | We just tuned our 2021 roadmap, to reflect Q2 progress so far. For Contracts Flexibility, Frontend Flexibility and Better Staking, we're extending them from Q2+Q3, to Q2+Q3+Q4.

We're on track to achieve all our 2021 targets 🐋

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-product-update-2021-6875bc1f804f

Dial into OceanDAO Town Hall #25 today at 3PM GMT:

https://github.com/oceanprotocol/oceandao/wiki/Town-Hall-25

Town Halls are weekly video chats open to all community members. You can network with the community, learn about Ocean devs & projects, comment on proposals and results, and more.

🌊

Read the 1st post from Ocean Founder @trentmc0's series on #NFTs & Intellectual Property:

"Practical Connections of ERC721 with IP"

• Mini backgrounder: IP as a tool to help creators & collectors
• How IP connects to ERC721 NFTs

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/nfts-ip-1-practical-connections-of-erc721-with-intellectual-property-dc216aaf005d

Are you a #blockchain developer w/ an interest in nature? Join @sovereignnature #hackathon to enable nature’s autonomous value inside city parks & public green spaces.

🪙 €10k + 10k $OCEAN in prizes
🏆 Jury incl. Ocean Founder @trentmc0

Apply by Jun 18: https://sovereignnature.com/projects/odyssey2021

ICYMI | Wrapping up the week's Ocean news 🌊

🦅 We teamed up w/ @raven_protocol to add #FederatedLearning to #OceanMarket via Compute-to-Data. Raven's decentralized algorithms allow cost-efficient training of neural networks. https://t.co/rzYmF6HO7x

#TheYearOfScaling

📚 Ocean Founder @trenmc0 wrote 2 posts in a series on #NFTs & Intellectual Property, and on the uses of #ERC20 & #ERC721 tokens. (Keep an eye out for the 3rd & final post tomorrow!) https://t.co/d2wcEnPX5t

🪙 Ocean's Growth Accelerator @manan77patel published a helpful guide on making the most of your $OCEAN by staking, providing liquidity, lending & borrowing. https://t.co/IbJPQcs96p

🌊We tuned our 2021 product roadmap to reflect Q2 progress. We're on track to achieve all 2021 targets. https://t.co/Qmz7E08isg

🏆 Congratulations to the winners of the Ocean bounties at @ETHGlobal's #Web3Weekend! 🥇 MeMeta 🥈 The Convo Space 🥉 Ocean CLI https://t.co/7xm7clgFkW

📍 We revealed a near-term roadmap for #OceanDAO, feat. improved funding & voting mechani

Final post in the #NFT & IP series! Ocean Founder @trentmc0
explains combining:

#ERC721 for non-fungible base IP
+
#ERC20 for fungible sub-licenses

The benefits of both: 1st-class (token-based) mgmt of base IP & sub-licenses + price discovery via AMMs.

👉 https://t.co/ghzomqM7Nl?amp=1

🗳Have you voted in OceanDAO Round 6 yet? Votes close on Monday, June 7 @ 12:00 GMT!

• 272,000 $OCEAN in funds
• 1 $OCEAN = 1 vote
• Vote on promising proposals at http://bit.ly/Round6Proposals
• Learn about the DAO at http://oceanprotocol.com/dao

⏰Final call! OceanDAO Round 6 votes are closing in 4h @ noon GMT.

Check out proposals & cast your vote: http://bit.ly/Round6Proposals

272,000 $OCEAN are on the line for winning projects that earn the community's trust.

Want to know more about OceanDAO? http://oceanprotocol.com/dao

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1401842895871791104

Join us at #CogX Festival on Jun 14 for Ocean Founder @BrucePon's panel on the Data Economy. Panelists:

@alexstubb, ex-PM Finland
@CarissaVeliz, AI Ethicist @UniofOxford
@kncukier, Senior Editor @TheEconomist
@tomvestor, General Partner @openoceanvc

👉 https://t.co/sFBesHfrHS?amp=1