📢Introducing the latest Ocean Shipyard grantee🚀 - #Directimo!🛠
The project focuses on a versatile open source data aggregation system for the Ocean Protocol Community🌊
Let's take a deeper look 👀

✅Driven by the mission to create a database with verified properties for the proptech industry, Directimo aims to deliver the foundation to scrape most of the websites around the globe by developing a tool to extract data from various sites for further processing.

What are the benefits? 🤔

🛠The solution will minimize the programming knowledge that developers need to have to extract data from multiple sites in parallel. The data so collected will provide access to powerful insights from the market.

🌊Directimo will employ advanced technologies including Python, Redis and Kafka to create a distributed on-demand scraping cluster. The goal is to leverage this to further facilitate a real-estate model that’s scalable on a global level 👀

💬 @sjohns, Ecosystem & Partnerships, Ocean Protocol said:
"We are particularly excited because Directimo tools will be available to the entire Ocean community and will dramatically help onboard quality data onto Ocean."

💬#AlexandruDan, CTO of Directimo, further commented:
"Web scrapers automatically collect information and data that's usually only accessible by visiting a website. By doing this autonomously, web scraping scripts open up a world of possibilities in data mining and analysis"

Read the full blog post here 👉
https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/new-grantee-directimo-joins-ocean-shipyard-1437e6338f5e

Learn more about Ocean Shipyard and the types of projects the program funds at

https://oceanprotocol.com/shipyard

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1570010018547744769

⏰A few more days left! Have you submitted your proposals yet? 👀🤔

The Shipyard Data Storage Initiative deadline is 📅Sept 17 @ 4 AM UTC with 💰$50K (in OCEAN) on offer to build interoperable decentralized data storage solutions on Ocean Protocol!🛠️

Deets 👇
👀Here's all you need to know:

✅Individual grants with varying amounts will be awarded - including a grant for building a decentralised data storage backend for Ocean & integration of specific microservices including @Filecoin and @ArweaveTeam.
✅Successful grant recipients will receive tech support and guidance from the Ocean engineering team.

✅The grant payments will be awarded upon the completion and delivery of each project grant milestone.

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-shipyard-kicks-off-the-data-storage-initiative-588e4fc3deae

💬"Given that blockchain tech is agnostic, we are discovering new avenues for adoption via strategic initiatives"

Founder @BrucePon explains Ocean's progress as the orchestration layer for data and AI in his recent interview in @aroundthecoin podcast with host @mikettownsend🎙️👀

Listen to the whole episode: https://youtu.be/aDMTGlZVCDY

The deadline is close!⏰

🛠️The Compute-to-Data survey closes tomorrow @ midnight UTC!👀

✅Be sure to submit your suggestions by then and you could stand a chance to win 👀💰500 $OCEAN (5X100)!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYBNagXJ94ExENRlsL9r2Jr5bL9np-jVUKWqY0DijemDgRaA/viewform

🌊Ocean is proud to be part of the @gaiax_aisbl @moveID_gaiax project that presents real-world use cases for blockchain technology🛠️

We look forward to playing a key role in powering the future of European mobility! 🚗

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/blockchain-bosch-gaia-x-vehicle-identity/

TODAY is the day🌊: Ocean Shipyard's next wave of grants is now LIVE!

If you are a #Web3 enthusiast keen to build the next generation of dApps on Ocean and advance the new data economy, then this is your chance!🛠️✨
✅With Ocean Shipyard, the core Ocean team curates project proposals that bring strategic value to the development of Ocean.

✅Eligible projects must make use of Ocean technology, be open source, have experienced teams, working code, a clear use case and/or deployment potential.
👀Read more about the initiative at oceanprotocol.com/shipyard and apply NOW using the form link forms.gle/HGz93v2ucmCg9J…!

We look forward to receiving your applications!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6G1CppsjEAVtCX8ZboNTURjx7L8N7ef2_uEk-7cxBOpYEuw/viewform

Thank you for your insights, Oceaners! 🌊💙
👀If you haven't already, you still have until ⏰TODAY @midnight UTC to submit your ideas on improving Ocean's Compute-to-Data functionality via the survey below! 👇✨
🗒Access the form here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYBNagXJ94ExENRlsL9r2Jr5bL9np-jVUKWqY0DijemDgRaA/viewform

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1570731193708220417

MEDIA 📺
Ocean's collaboration with @chainstep @Datarella @Fetch_ai @peaqnetwork and @51nodes on the €20M+ @gaiax_aisbl @moveID_gaiax initiative led by @BoschGlobal was covered by @Benzinga!

Read the full feature here:
https://benzinga.com/pressreleases/22/09/n28869884/leading-web3-projects-join-forces-to-power-the-future-of-mobility-in-a-20-mln-pan-european-project

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1570683551716376577?s=20&t=lXNxhPpHNqgSFDSYcwZubA

We have some results to announce!🌊
The @OceanDAO_ Round 21 is officially over and here's an overview of the highlights:
13 proposals submitted
11 projects funded/partially funded
6,150,205 OCEAN tokens voted
416,395 OCEAN granted
Here are some of the new entrants 👇

Visualizing C2D is the latest project to join the Ocean ecosystem.
It aims to build general purpose input and output visualizer using Gradio and react components for improving the experience of Ocean's Compute-to-Data functionality.

🚩Problems to solve:
🛠️ Mitigate the lack of a visual interface that makes C2D interaction counter-intuitive for machine learning and data science experts.
🛠️Allowing Developers to Deploy and Monitor Multiple C2D Jobs

💰Grant Deliverables:
✅Implement gradioflow’s integration with compute and access assets
✅Monitor assets with gradioflow integration
Read more here: https://port.oceanprotocol.com/t/visualizing-c2d-using-gradio-streamlit-react-intuitive-visual-apps-for-monitoring-compute-and-access-services-round-21/2057

🛠️Another new project to have secured funding in Round 21 is HYGROPRO Defarm.
The initiative involves onboarding all controlled environment vertical farm systems to Ocean Protocol to act as a decentralized farm 🌊

🚩Problems to solve:
🛠️ To leverage controlled environment system data and plant growth techniques to introduce a new use case for the Ocean data marketplace.
🛠️Make Ocean Protocol the premier the crucible for artificial general agriculture intelligence.

💰Grant Deliverables:

✅Build a general intelligence machine learning algorithm that interacts directly with a network of independent controlled environment grow devices through a bounty system on a Proof of Grow Ocean Protocol Data Market fork:
https://port.oceanprotocol.com/t/hygropro-defarm-hygropro-defarm-seed-round-21/2054

Explore other general grants and core tech projects in the dedicated Round 21 results blog post: https://t.co/PofuRrx8A7

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1570737635936858112?s=20&t=YGQG4yeF6zKvrZNjeXzy5g

ICYMI| This week at Ocean 🌊

✅Ocean Protocol has joined Web3 projects @chainstep, @Datarella, @Fetch_ai, @peaqnetwork and @51nodes on the €20M+ @gaiax_aisbl @moveID_gaiax initiative led by @BoschGlobal to advance pan-European mobility: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-protocol-joins-leading-web3-projects-on-the-20m-gaia-x-moveid-initiative-to-advance-72e4675d12d7

✅The Ocean x @dimitratech Data Challenge: Phase 2 - Algorithms, Analytics, Narratives & Reports is live.
The strategic challenge incentivises data analysis and the building of algorithms to harness the power of agricultural data for global change 🧑‍🌾 https://t.co/z8aYttaMOU

✅#Directimo has been announced as the latest Ocean Shipyard grantee🚀
The project focuses on a versatile open-source data aggregation system for the Ocean Protocol Community. https://t.co/FerYG2tcrI

MEDIA📺
Ocean was featured in @ForbesIndia as using "blockchain to make the Internet of Things safer and smarter"
Read article👇
https://www.forbesindia.com/article/thunderbird/blockchain-for-business-beyond-crypto-and-bitcoin/79501/1

📅EVENTS
🎙️Ocean founder @BrucePon discussed all things data, privacy and monetisation at the #DeData Salon.
🎙️Bruce also explored potential use cases of #Web3 and blockchain interoperability at the @Berlin_Asia summit and @ber_chain respectively.

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1570772037081370625?s=20&t=k-D9ol1w51iP3XGY0eoiZg

📅The deadline has been extended!
Ocean Shipyard Data Storage Initiative is now open to proposals till September 23 @midnight UTC ⏰
Submit your application and you could get funding to build interoperable decentralized data storage solutions.
💰$50K USD (paid in OCEAN)

Here is an overview of the timeline 📅:

🕰️Submit application: Sept 23 @ midnight UTC
🕰️Work begins - Oct 1st
🕰️Project completion DDL - Dec 15, 2022

Read more about the submission criteria in the dedicated blog post and apply by accessing the form here: https://forms.gle/Cjd148ejK6qKAQfL9

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-shipyard-kicks-off-the-data-storage-initiative-588e4fc3deae

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1570770984680169474?s=20&t=TrcYO3eFGsfONE2oFbswIQ

🔷 @Fringefinance integrates @Oceanprotocol to make $OCEAN as a lending collateral asset

🔷 $OCEAN is a utility token that is used for community governance and staking on data

🔽 INFO
https://smartliquidity.info/2022/09/18/fringe-finance-integrates-ocean-protocol/
#Definews

https://twitter.com/Definews_Info/status/1571512972161478660

OCEAN🌊 on AsiaBerlin:

We then held a panel discussion on Web3 and emerging markets! Our Panel: Songyi Lee, Co-Founder, Impact Collective; Donatus zu Schaumburg-Lippe, Co-Founder, 3.O Labs and Bruce Pon, Founder, Ocean Protocol.

Thank you for the super moderation, Karena!

https://twitter.com/Berlin_Asia/status/1571705312767520768

Let's keep that engagement going!😍🔥

The Ocean X @dimitratech Phase 2 Data Challenge is live on @questbookapp💥 with $10K USD on offer for the best algorithms to harness the power of agricultural data for global change 🧑‍🌾
Here is an overview 👇

🛠Participants are presented with a dataset containing the crop yield data for soybeans in the 46 districts of Madhya Pradesh state, India and the MODIS satellite data on normalized difference vegetation, leaf area, evapotranspiration, land surface temperature and rainfall.

👀📢The challenge is to study the target soybean yields satellite data, rank the factors that affect yields and build a simple model to predict yields based on the features. The participants will also identify and explain any trends in the yield data over a 10-year period.

The rewards?💰👀
🎁1st place: $4000
🎁2nd place: $3,000
🎁3rd place: $2000
🎁Community award: $1,000
*payable in OCEAN + DMTR

Ready?! 👀Then start exploring all the published datasets and submit your models!
⏰DDL - September 30 at midnight UTC

https://www.questbook.app/explore_grants/about_grant/?grantId=0x40f5698eb499b65b651803574e1745e6d552aa30&chainId=137&utm_source=QB+Dimitra+-+Press+Ann

For further details, read the dedicated announcement 👉
https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-protocol-and-dimitra-announce-phase-2-of-the-data-challenge-algorithms-analytics-69322f9a47fe

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1571807752854306820

Get those proposals in, Oceaners👀

The @OceanDAO_ Round 22 of funding is now LIVE!🌊

💰Grant: 65,000 USD (paid in OCEAN)

⏰DDL: October 10 @ midnight UTC

Dive in!👇

Round 22 is tuned to the following goals 🛠

✅Fostering a culture of contributing

✅Ensuing quality outcomes via rewards flow to contributors who are effective at delivering results

✅Improving DAO efficiency

Changes introduced in this round include

🛠Retroactive grants will not be implemented at this point

🛠We are shifting more community budget to veOCEAN & Data Farming (more automated, yet aligned objectives), and away from grants (higher governance touch)

Funding overview:

✅55,000 USD will be allocated for the regular grants program

✅10,000 USD will be allocated for Algovera AI micro-grants

The team encourages you to submit proposals early ⏰and for this use the Proposal Portal. A tutorial is available at
https://github.com/oceanprotocol/oceandao/wiki/Write-Proposal

Read all the details on this round in the dedicated blog post here:
https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/oceandao-round-22-is-live-91e0187db298

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1572149947235192833

What opportunities does Ocean create for the decentralized digital identities of the future through its participation in @moveID_gaiax?🧐🛠

🎙Hear it from founder @BrucePon in his most recent interview:

https://moveid.org/2022/09/19/moveid-interview-4-ocean-protocol/

https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1572178789974491136

Are you looking forward to the probably most exciting opportunity that @OceanProtocol will be launching shortly?

If you don’t know, then it’s probably worth reading this thread on why $OCEAN could take off 🚀

#veOCEAN 👇

https://twitter.com/realdatawhale/status/1572069843071041536

Only 4 days left!⏰👀

The Ocean Shipyard Data Storage Initiative closes on September 23 @midnight UTC!📢

If you haven't already, this is your chance to get funding and build interoperable decentralized data storage solutions 🛠️

$50K USD (paid in OCEAN)

What is the initiative all about? 👀

✅With data storage features highly requested by the Ocean user community, the goal of this project is to have up to 3 new data storage technologies integrated with Ocean in production by the end of 2022.

What happens next? 🧐

💸Individual grants with varying amounts will be awarded including a grant for building a decentralised data storage backend for Ocean as well as grants for the integration of specific data storage microservices including Filecoin and Arweave.
Here is an overview of the timeline 📅

🕰️Submit application: Sept 23 @ midnight UTC
🕰️Work begins -  Oct 1st
🕰️Project completion DDL  - Dec 15, 2022
Read more about the submission criteria in the dedicated blog post here: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-shipyard-kicks-off-the-data-storage-initiative-588e4fc3deae