🌊 OceanDAO Round 8 Results are out! For the 1st time ever, >150K OCEAN not captured by proposals will be burned.

✔️12 projects funded
👥369 votes
🗳21,419,616 $OCEAN tokens voted

Congrats to the funded projects!

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/oceandao-round-8-results-a66c96cd8d7c

🌊 @OceanDAO_ is offering $300K in grants to ideas that impact the #OpenDataEconomy and help grow the Ocean ecosystem.

Approximately 30% of the total round funding available is earmarked for new projects.

DEADLINE: Sept 7, 2021, midnight GMT

Apply today: https://t.co/a3THMi4py1?amp=1

Over 12 weeks, Ocean, Balancer Labs & Powerpoolcvp collaborated w/ researchers to study agent-based models of the Web3 data economy.

See the final results of the @tokengineering Simulations program, incl. presentations & documentation.

Now there is a publicly available library of content to educate Balancer + Ocean community members on #opensource models and simulations, which can inspire further research topics across the #DeFi industry.

#OpenScience

https://medium.com/tokenengineering/openscience-for-defi-establishing-token-engineering-infrastructure-and-best-practices-in-the-55d5555208fa

Listen to the latest #VoicesoftheDataEconomy episode featuring @ReinhardtJu.

#data #bigdata #AI

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/gdpr-artificial-intelligence-regulation-impact-silicon-valley-b81b91af17e9

We've made updates to our 2021 Product Roadmap. Here are the highlights:

Q3
- Data Farming 0.1
- Data NFTs
- Safer staking

Q4
- Data Farming main
- OCEAN stablecoin in Ocean Market
- Federated Learning

More details👇

https://t.co/t72QekzTPn?amp=1


Round 8 of @OceanDAO_ closed with 12 projects funded + over 21M OCEAN voted! 🌊🌊

For the first time ever, >150K OCEAN not captured by proposals will be burned. Read our blog to learn what this means for the Ocean token & the OceanDAO design.

https://t.co/LgZLjeW6oD?amp=1


#OceanDAO Round 9 is now open for submissions, with a few updates to the DAO, including:

🗒Standing Dashboard to report active project updates 👥 1 Project / 1 Proposal
🗳Vote counting
🤖DAOBot for project deadlines

https://t.co/peu9dBcABw?amp=1

🎙Jump start your week by listening to @Mambu_com's #ArchitectsofChange episode on data democratization powered by #blockchain, feat. @BrucePon & @DNB_Bank's Chief Data & Analytics Officer Aidan Millar.

https://t.co/NHwf6T8c6N?amp=1

https://twitter.com/i/status/1427293528405823492

🌊@OceanDAO_ Funding Round 9 is live! $300K USD available to build software, unleash data, & community outreach for the data economy.

• Max Funding per Project: $17.5K USD
• Proposals due: Sep 7 @ 23:59 GMT

Details: https://notion.so/Round-9-Proposals-73ef48e765de43778891faa8172c2488

#DataScience #AI #Developer

‼️~30% of funds are earmarked for new teams previously unfunded by #OceanDAO.

Are you interested in the sustainability and growth of the Ocean Protocol ecosystem? Visit the OceanDAO website for a full list of resources to learn more & submit proposals. https://oceanprotocol.com/dao

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1427582235406917638

We're #hiring! Join Ocean as an Ecosystem Manager.

If you're a #Web3 native with a passion for #community and excel at end-to-end development of engagement activities geared towards creating value & scaling, apply for this position by Aug. 30

👉 https://t.co/m03bNFmzFD?amp=1

⚡️$300K USD in grants available for #data oriented projects that grow the Ocean ecosystem & the #OpenDataEconomy.

🗓DEADLINE Sep 7 @ 23:59 GMT

https://t.co/peu9dBcABw

Dive into @OceanDAO_ Round 8 grant recipients in the thread👇

Category: Outreach🫂

In order to boost the usage of #OceanMarket, SandLabs proposes to create a blockchain/crypto-related dataset from a variety of data streaming sources for listing on Ocean Market.

https://t.co/JFgvIRCOBo

Category: Unleash Data ⚡️

RAZ proposes to simplify ESG and investment data management while making the influence of impact on financial performance transparent and verified.

https://t.co/Sxq9w7lHjL

Category: Build & Integrate ⚒

Onshore OCEAN's initial focus is on building a landing page with PoC Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory data analysis & training simple deep learning models using Ocean.

https://t.co/CkCePnERix

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1427662462447464462?s=20

Hey @mcuban! If you're excited about the future of the web3/decentralized data economy, we'd love to have you on Ocean's podcast Voices of the Data Economy.

#shootyourshot 🏀

👥 Join @OceanDAO_ Town Hall #36 today @ 3PM GMT. Get involved with the OceanDAO community - discuss updates and governance during these weekly video chats. https://github.com/oceanprotocol/oceandao/wiki/Town-Hall-36

❗️Submit your proposal for Round 9 by Sept. 7 at midnight GMT.
https://t.co/a3THMi4py1?amp=1

Building on our partnership, @dovuofficial
published the data behind their Carbon Market Cap tool on #OceanMarket!
Read about their first dataset on our marketplace. https://t.co/5u2qSVlMrp?amp=1

Check out the dataset here.👇
https://t.co/2Cjt3X4UMC?amp=1


Our collaboration offers carbon farmers new revenue streams from their data and makes it available for research. We're also expanding the list of data sources on Ocean Market.

Learn more on our blog. 👇
https://t.co/S42Xrhmbsf?amp=1

With $300K in grants available, @OceanDAO_ Round 9 is an opportunity to fund your bright idea!

Learn more & submit your proposals: http://oceanprotocol.com/dao

Scroll to see what Round 8 grant recipients are currently working on 👇👇

Category: Outreach
Data Funnel will experiment with industry-standard online marketing techniques to onboard new data into Ocean Market, focusing on targeting #Web3 related #data providers.
https://t.co/91J1blAnX4?amp=1

Category: Unleash Data
OurNet aims to build a global, crowdsourced databank of organizations to enable people to utilize datasets curated for their local communities.
https://t.co/ue67wAiYNk?amp=1

Category: Build & Integrate
RugPullIndex helps data scientists & investors make better decisions when buying data online via a scalable decentralized app that allows investors to gain diversified exposure to Ocean Market's best datasets.
https://t.co/Wccf1i2HYi?amp=1

We're excited to see @swashapp evolve and expand their ecosystem - congrats!

#ANewDataEconomy

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1428406880813162501

Following our premiere Mutual Liquidity Pool (MLP) on the PopTown Platform, we have reinstated our MLP together with AllianceBlock !

Read more here - https://bit.ly/2W7UFxC

By participating in the MLP as a farmer, holders will receive rewards in $POP, $OCEAN & $ALBT. The trustless MLP is running for 180 days till February 14 2022 at ~20:00 UTC.

Join the 1st @OceanDAO_ Governance Design Call to discuss the OceanDAO roadmap, rules, mechanisms, and governance.

⏰Tuesday, Aug 24 @ 4:00 PM GMT
📍https://t.co/Lvk3mXDcmF

NOTE: This is a separate call from the weekly Town Halls.

📢We're halfway through the submission period for @OceanDAO_ Round 9! There is $300K available for sustainable data-oriented projects.

• Max Funding/ project: $17.5K USD
⏰ Apply by Sep. 7 at midnight GMT

https://t.co/a3THMi4py1

View Round 8 highlights in the thread👇

Category: Unleash Data⚡️
Evotegra aims to establish Ocean Market as a prime source for high-quality data by creating a professional traffic image dataset with at least 100,000 images from ~300 categories.
https://t.co/MnYPfXfEfL

Category: Outreach 🤝
Ocean Coral aims to bootstrap a #Science Data #DAO that will generate datasets and algorithms to host on Ocean Market & onboard neuroscientists into the data economy.
https://t.co/S9U1F1j5br

Category: Unleash Data⚡️
ResilientML will bring professional-grade #datacuration and feature libraries in the NLP context to Ocean Market for #machinelearning Compute-to-Data users.
https://t.co/37p1wDw9hR

If you're interested in the governance behind OceanDAO, join the first Governance Design Call tomorrow, August 24th at 4 PM GMT.

On the agenda: OceanDAO roadmap, rules, mechanisms & more.
📍https://t.co/Lvk3mXDcmF

NOTE: This is a separate call from the weekly Town Halls.

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1429828067401289736

Ocean will support @deltaDAO during the 1st @gaiax_aisbl Hackathon, focusing on federated services. The results of the sessions will be showcased at the end of each day, with talks from @Microsoft #CatenaX @AmadeusITGroup @BoschGlobal.

🗓Aug 30-31
📍https://hopin.com/events/gaia-x-hackathon

The monthly @OceanDAO_ Governance Design community call begins in 1 hour!

Tune in with any feedback or improvements you may have for the rules and mechanisms behind OceanDAO.

All ideas are welcomed!🌊🌊
📍https://t.co/bI2mFZntcu

⚡9 months after its launch, @OceanDAO_ has surpassed $1M in grants & received over 130 proposals, w/ the community voting 68M OCEAN.

Round 9 is now open w/ $300K available for ideas that drive the growth of the Open #DataEconomy.

🚨DEADLINE: Sept 7

https://oceanprotocol.com/press/2021-08-25-oceandao-round-9-300kusd-data-driven-projects

Join us for Alternate Future Summit & Hackathon! Learn how emerging technologies will impact work/life routines from thought leaders, ecosystem builders, & more. We'll be there with @OceanDAO_
Lead @anapheys 🌊🌊

🗓Sep. 11-17

Register👇
https://t.co/IMryHwmdN8?amp=1