Technical Whitepaper
Thorough description of Ocean Protocol, in an academic flavor.
The team behind Ocean Protocol continues to improve the software and services at all levels: smart contracts, libraries, and marketplaces / applications. This page shows progress made thus far, where we’re headed, and Ocean whitepapers. The 2022 roadmap blog post has further detail for 2022.
November 2017
Ocean Token seed distribution
Technical Primer
February 2018
March 2018
Ocean Token pre-launch distribution with 3500 Contributors in 100 countries
Grew developer team
Advisor Program launched
August 2018
Proof-of-concept data marketplace released (Pleuston)
Test network created (Spree)
December 2018
Development and documentation of Ocean network components
Building global community: many events, advisors, and ambassadors
April 2019
Core functionality of decentralized access control
Beta network deployed (Nile)
Commons Marketplace demonstrator
Q3 2019
V1 functionality at production grade
POA mainnet launched (Pacific)
Token bridge between Ethereum Mainnet and PoA network
Q1 2020
Decentralized, non-custodial data marketplace
Customizable for data providers
Deployed with a strategic enterprise partner
Q2 2020
Unlock private data while preserving privacy, by bringing compute to the data
Integrated with Enterprise Marketplace, to enable buying & selling private data while preserving privacy
October 2020
ERC20 Datatokens for access control, and auto price discovery via Balancer pools
Ocean Market community marketplace. Updated market-level token design including staking
Updated system-level token design for growth and long-term sustainability
December 2020
Q1 2021
Q1 2021
In Ocean Market, can now buy and sell private data while preserving privacy
Q2 2021
Data providers can control the credentials needed to consume a data asset. 3rd party markets too.
Q3-Q4 2021
Deployed to Moonriver, the EVM Kusama parachain in Polkadot ecosystem
Q1 2022
Q1 2022
Public bounties program to identify critical bugs
Smart contracts deployed to test networks
Initial scope is smart contracts; then it broadens
Q2 2022
H2O is a Non-Pegged Stable Asset backed by OCEAN, based on RAI design
Via New Order and Reflexer Labs collaboration
Q2 2022 *
V4 smart contracts deployed to production networks
V4 Feature (1) Solve rug pulls and reduce impermanent loss, via one-sided staking
V4 Feature (2) Data NFTs: NFT-ize base IP to enable transfer of base IP, support >1 revenue streams, and more
V4 Feature (3) Help community $: 3rd party markets earn fees on swapping, staking, and consuming. More control over rates
After V4 *
A program to incentivize data consume volume
After Data Farming *
veOCEAN to incentivize holding OCEAN longer term
Treasury to enhance long-term sustainability
Also, introduce community-curated rolling grants
Ongoing *
Improve OceanDAO: towards greater scale, stability, and decentralization.
Improve multi-chain: deploy to more chains, improve UX, and more
Improve data services: support more data services, including WebSockets, Arweave, Filecoin, Chainlink, TheGraph
* Software is sometimes hard to predict, so there might be delays. We will update projected dates once we are closer to a milestone's completion.
Thorough description of Ocean Protocol, in an academic flavor.
Business and ecosystem context for Ocean Protocol. Note: partly out of date.
V4 Smart Contracts Security Audit Report.
V3 Smart Contracts Security Audit Report.