The Ocean Protocol Data Economy Challenge
3 Inspiring Tracks. 1 Global Community. Enter for your chance to win EUR + OCEAN tokens. Help us build the New Data Economy!
At Ocean, we are always looking for new ways to incorporate our global community deeper into the heart of the Ocean ecosystem.
We recently launched Pacific, our Mainnet, in which we initiated smart contract deployments on our own PoA network, with full functionality on our reference Commons Marketplace and the ability to use your OCEAN tokens on the network. Here’s a quick intro on using the Commons Marketplace.
With this momentous landmark upon us, now it is your turn.
The time is right to bring the community onboard in our inaugural Data Economy Challenge — helping to build A New Data Economy, together.
Register for the Challenge on DevPost!
What is the Data Economy Challenge?
The Ocean Protocol Data Economy Challenge is a six-week global development challenge to bring together top minds worldwide to tackle issues around data marketplaces, network integrations, and more.
We encourage developers to form teams of 2–6 people to enter the competition, and judging will be carried out by several core members of the Ocean team. The Judge’s selections will be based on a variety of factors such as innovativeness, potential, sustainability and effectiveness.
What are the Tracks?
Submissions will be grouped into 3 impactful tracks:
- Data Marketplaces — How can we kickstart the New Data Economy through building data marketplaces?
- Network Integrations — How can we use Ocean Protocol to help Data Scientists and unlock value from data?
- Wild Card Submissions — Fill in the blanks! How can Ocean Protocol and its ecosystem be boosted to the next level?
What are the Prizes?
We have allocated a total of 3.4 Million OCEAN tokens in prizes for winners of the Ocean Data Economy Challenge!
Each track will have a total of 768,000 OCEAN tokens in prizes, plus an additional 2K Euros for the top submission in each track.
- 1st Place Winners will receive 333,000 OCEAN tokens + 2K EUR
- 2nd Place Winners in each track will receive 270,000 OCEAN tokens
- 3rd Place Winners in each track will receive 165,000 OCEAN tokens
Additionally, there will be extra prizes given for fast submissions, entries using data found on the Ocean Data Commons, and more.
Where do I start?
It’s super easy to dive into the Ocean Data Economy Challenge.
- Register your interest on DevPost.
- Start by reviewing the info about specific challenge tracks and challenge rules, then study the Ocean Documentation and GitHub Repositories.
- Form your team, brainstorm, get set, and GO!
What are the important dates?
Submissions are open! Please pay attention to the specific submission requirements for each track. Here are the important dates to keep in mind.
January 15, 2020 — Submission Deadline
January 29, 2020 — Track Winners Announced
February 5, 2020 — Voting on Community Choice Award Starts
February 10, 2020 — Community Choice Award Winner Announced
Looking for teammates?
If you don’t already have a group in mind, it is easy to find other Challenge participants worldwide who would be interested in forming a team with you.
You can meet other Ocean ecosystem supporters in any of our 11 local meetup groups around the world, or simply join our Data Economy Challenge Discord chat to connect!
Get support from the team
You have the opportunity to get support from the team building Ocean Protocol. Whether it’s a question about navigating our GitHub repos or a general challenge question, the Data Economy Challenge leads are here to help. Ecosystem Developer Beth McCarthy and Product Manager Manan Patel are fully committed to the success of every team that signs up.
Ocean Engineering leads Alex and Samer will be available for Digital Office Hours on Mondays from 14–16 CET. Email challenge@oceanprotocol.com to schedule a call with them. Beth will be available on Gitter and Discord during the rest of the week to pass questions on to the team.
The next generation of the Data Economy will not be possible without you. We have the platforms and systems in place to elevate your voice, your ideas, your hacking skills. We have a world-class team ready to support you, and we are thrilled to be bringing you onboard.
Show us what you’ve got!
This blog post was edited on November 13th, 2019 to reflect the move to DevPost and the new submission deadlines.
Ready to dive in? — Check out the Ocean Documentation to get a sense of what we’ve been working on, and fire all your technical questions in our Gitter chatroom.
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