Ocean Protocol V3 Posts

Links to all V3-Related Stories

This post contains links to Ocean V3 posts and other materials, and key “precursor” materials that led up to the V3 materials.

Ocean V3 Posts

Here are the posts for Ocean Protocol V3.

Concise Summary:

• “Ocean V3 Is Now Live. One Step Closer to an open Data Economy”, blog post, Oct. 27, 2020 [article]
• “Intro to Ocean V3” slides, Oct. 27, 2020, [link]
• oceanprotocol.com website has high-level intros for concepts, and links to further info. Big update Oct. 27, 2020

Thorough Yet Compact Description:

• “Ocean Protocol Technical Whitepaper.” [Link]. Describes all the core technical elements in one place. Many blog posts below elaborate on various aspects. Oct 27, 2020

Ocean System design, token model:

• “The Web3 Sustainability Loop. A system design for long-term growth of Web3 projects, with application to Ocean Protocol”, Sep 1, 2020 [article][tweetstorm]
• “Ocean Token Model: System Dynamics for Near-Term Growth and Long-Term Sustainability #tokenengineering”, Oct 2, 2020 [article][tweetstorm]

Datatokens, core architecture:

• Datatokens: “Ocean Datatokens: From Money Legos to Data Legos. How DeFi Helps Data, and Data Helps DeFi”, Sep 8, 2020 [article][tweetstorm]
• Architecture: “Ocean Protocol V3 Architecture Overview: Simplicity and Interoperability via a Datatokens Core”, Oct 12, 2020 [article][tweet]
• Network deployments: “Ocean’s on Ethereum Mainnet: Ocean Protocol Network Deployments Past, Present, and Future”, Oct. 27, 2020 [article]

Ocean Market & incentives:

• Intro to Ocean Market: “Ocean Market: An Open-Source Community Marketplace for Data. Featuring OCEAN Staking, Automated Market Makers, and Initial Data Offerings”, Sep 24, 2020 [article][tweetstorm]
• Slides: “Ways to Earn in Ocean” [link], Oct. 27, 2020
• Selling data: “On Selling Data in Ocean Market: Selling Your Proprietary Data, Others’ Proprietary Data, and Value-Adds to Open Data”, Oct. 19, 2020 [article][tweet]
• Staking data: “On Staking on Data in Ocean Market: Earning Opportunities — and Risks — in Ocean’s Community Marketplace”, Oct. 22, 2020 [article][tweet]
• Data farming: “Announcing Ocean Data Farming. A program to incentivize a supply of relevant and high-quality data assets #datafarming”, Oct 1, 2020 [article][tweetstorm]

Developers:

• docs.oceanprotocol.com is the best starting point for developers in working with Ocean tools. Big update Oct. 27, 2020

The rest of this blog lists “precursor” blog posts, oldest first.

Precursors: Datatokens Groundwork

Ocean V3 is architected around the mental model of datatokens, which enable crypto wallets as data wallets, crypto exchanges as data exchanges, and more .These posts kicked off our original thinking on datatokens in fall 2019.

• “Datatokens 1: Data Custody. Data access control, meet crypto wallets & data DAOs”, Nov 8, 2019 [link]
• “Datatokens 2: Non-Fungible, Fungible and Composable Datatokens. For data baskets, limited-edition datasets, priced compute pipelines, and more”, Nov 25, 2019 [link]
• “Datatokens 3: Data and Decentralized Finance (Data * DeFi).
  Data as Collateral. Data DEXes, Data Loans, Data Stablecoins, and Datatokens in Financial Supply Chains”, Dec 3, 2019 [link]

Precursors: Ocean System Groundwork

V3 includes a more explicit system-level design for long-term sustainability that we call Ocean System. The following posts from Q1/Q2 2020 outline our thoughts on aspects of the system design.

• “Web3 Sustainability Survey. A Review of Web3 Ecosystem Funding Programs”, Mar 14, 2020 [link]
• “On Verifying Token-Based Systems: A Token Engineering Perspective”, Jul 14, 2020 [link]
• “Should Product-Market Fit Come Before Tokens? On the Degree of Token Usage in a Product”, Jul 21, 2020 [link]
• “The Wright Brothers and Hierarchical Design”, Jul 28, 2020 [link]

Precursor: Product Update 2020

In early 2020, we described what we were aiming for in V3 (and then built:).

• “Ocean Product Update || 2020: What’s New and What to Expect Next”, Mar 19, 2020 [link]

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