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Ending the year with a bang💥- we bring you the LATEST #VotDE EPISODE!🎙️ With current market conditions, how can crypto projects continue to generate value?⚒️🚀 Founder @BrucePon takes a dive with reference to Ocean in this EOY special! "I want individuals to have the ability to take control of their own data and to monetize it in whatever way. I want for data scientists to then access it in an ethical manner, where people opt-in, where we have the provenance of the data"💬🌊 📺Listen to the whole conversation with host @dikshadutta via the link: https://t.co/H87jCgONGi https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1608810517396586496?s=20&t=Q5r0f58g3lvRlgufXV_lXA

Presenting to you, #October2022 at Ocean!🌊👀 ✅The first ETH Prediction Challenge by Ocean went live. It sought to incentivise strategic insights and predictions on ETH prices post the recent Ethereum Merge. https://medium.com/@TeamOcean/ocean-protocol-announces-the-launch-of-the-eth-prediction-challenge-7b1f04cc820e https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1608794258726866944?s=20&t=Q5r0f58g3lvRlgufXV_lXA

Here's what Ocean was upto in #September2022!⚒️🚀 ✅veOCEAN went live! Users can lock their $OCEAN to get veOCEAN, earn weekly rewards and curate data. More at: https://df.oceandao.org/ https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1608513093168168962?s=46&t=Tz4LNA47iugXYK-1vT2dgQ

2022 with Ocean Shipyard has been a year of accelerated adoption!💥⚓️ Our grant program has: ✅Funded 10 projects including @AlgoveraAI @CalicaXYZ @FELT_labs & more! 💰Granted 1,735,000 OCEAN as funds 🚀Launched its special Decentralised Data Storage Initiative! https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1608447114279030784?s=46&t=3f29pkyD7NDX5nW7FBWuzg

Is #VC money good for #crypto?🤔 Do early-stage projects need them to continue on the path to innovation?👀 Founder @BrucePon shares his take on the controversial question in the upcoming episode of the Ocean podcast #VotDE with host @dikshadutta 🎙️✨ Stay tuned!🤩🎊 https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1608413761622405122?s=46&t=3f29pkyD7NDX5nW7FBWuzg

"We're battle-hardened and are well-positioned to focus on the core mission."💬 Given turbulent market conditions, what is Ocean's strategy to withstand the storm & #BUIDL? 🏗️⚒️ Find out in the latest #VotDE episode featuring founder @BrucePon COMING SOON! 👀🤩 https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1608089256647327745?t=VUznWTbsNca-h_X-KnucKg&s=19

Congratulations to all the winners! 🎊💥 The 2nd ETH price prediction challenge is officially concluded and the results are out! 🤩❤️ 💰1st place ($2500): #AndreyBessalov 💰2nd place ($1500): AndreaaToma 💰3rd place ($1000): JohnWang ✨We appreciate all your submissions! What happens next? The Ocean team will contact you for the rewards!💰 Read the whole ann: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/introducing-the-winners-of-the-eth-price-prediction-data-challenge-edition-2-6acdccb9271

We have the winners!🎊 Thank you for all your insightful reports on the Storage Network Energy Consumption data challenge💡 💃Congratulations to the lucky winners - @gijones99 (1st place) @UditGupta10 (2nd place) & @Sawcrate0 (3rd place)!👏 Here's what you need to do next👇 ✅Send us a DM using the same Twitter handle mentioned in your reports ✅Specify your ETH address ✅The Ocean team will then work to distribute the rewards to your wallet!💰 For more information on the challenge per se and the winning reports, read the dedicated announcement: https://t.co/CstuJQJpOh https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1606297763934658560?s=20&t=ulC7C4eNiW7sEcjk_Gu8mQ

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/data-farming-df16-completed-df17-started-9379817f53d5 💰Claiming your weekly Data Farming rewards is a great Thursday highlight, isn't that right?👀✨ 🚀DF16 has ended and it's time for you to claim your OCEAN!💸 💰50K $OCEAN were available for this round! To start, navigate to df.oceandao.org/rewards 🔗 💥DF Round 16 (DF16) is part of DF Beta. Counting ended Dec 22 @ 12:01 am. 👀DF 17 counting has begun as of today @ 12:01am. For DF17 the budget will be 50K OCEAN. As before, 50% of the budget goes to passive rewards (25K OCEAN), and 50% to active rewards (25K OCEAN).

💰Claiming your weekly Data Farming rewards is a great Thursday highlight, isn't that right?👀✨ 🚀DF16 has ended and it's time for you to claim your OCEAN!💸 💰50K $OCEAN were available for this round! To start, navigate to df.oceandao.org/rewards 🔗 https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/data-farming-df16-completed-df17-started-9379817f53d5 💥DF Round 16 (DF16) is part of DF Beta. Counting ended Dec 22 @ 12:01 am. 👀DF 17 counting has begun as of today @ 12:01am. For DF17 the budget will be 50K OCEAN. As before, 50% of the budget goes to passive rewards (25K OCEAN), and 50% to active rewards (25K OCEAN).

It's time to take a look back at what June2022 looked like at Ocean 😍 ✅OceanONDA V4 was launched by the team. The update introduced data NFTs, expanded the options for the community to monetize, and delivered updates to the Ocean Market. Read more: blog.oceanprotocol.com/oceanonda-v4-p… We kicked off the Ocean Data Farming program. It incentivizes the growth of data consume volume in the Ocean ecosystem. It rewards OCEAN for stakers who allocate liquidity to curate data asset with high data consume volume (DCV). Explore: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-data-farming-is-launching-f633532d831c 🎙️Founder @BrucePon spoke about why the orchestration of Ocean is the "secret sauce" for an "equitable data economy" in an interview with @gbuhnici!👀 Listen to the full recording: https://youtu.be/2-2-jDN59_M

https://youtu.be/vUA1ygvw6R0 Weren't able to make it to the Ocean Builders🏗️ - @oceandao_ edition event last week?👀 You can still catch up on all the discussions!🎙️ Access the full recording below😍 youtu.be/vUA1ygvw6R0 @datalatte_ @0xdesights @walt_id & @AlgoveraAI

Ocean Protocol and http://Fetch.ai will drive a revolutionary change in the automotive industry. Here is why: https://twitter.com/KryptoInsider1/status/1605210142139682820

Monthly overview alert!🚨👀 Let's take a look at what Ocean was up to in #May2022!💃 ✅Ocean announced a new investment partner - @cypher_capital that allocated $5 million USD to invest in Ocean Protocol Ecosystem Projects. https://bit.ly/3vqQ9Zr ✅The 3rd phase of the OceanV4 public testing program with Websites and Applications Bounties of up to $100,000 went live! ✅We launched 2 initiatives to accelerate the adoption of Ocean: Ocean V3 Airdrop & Pool Share Lock designed to incentivise the Ocean community 💰 Read more: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-v3-airdrop-and-pool-share-lock-4d18a84e6e27 https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1605527574037164032

Another day, another quick monthly overview! 😉🏗️ This is what #April2022 looked like at Ocean!🌊 OceanONDA V4🚀 ✅The 2nd phase of V4 Public Testing kicked off with Backend Bounties of up to $100,000. https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1605194761320529920?s=46&t=5Bkq50837fbg1S_bSu7JiA

🧵/1 We have received some great submissions - thank you for your reports on the 2nd #ETH prediction challenge!🌊👀 Here's what you can expect next!😍👇 https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1604882093871288320?s=46&t=1SzJF3Fc1BXt3SyKuOsfmg

MEDIA| 📺 Another day, another feature!📰 📚Read the full coverage of Ocean's latest collaboration with @Faculty__Group for a $5 Million investment to support the $OCEAN project ecosystem fund🔥 - as published in @Coincuofficial! https://t.co/BdzuNReq2w https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1604862708846772224?s=20&t=e4j-o0Tj2MFhbHg7rNC7HQ

#March2022 at Ocean was a raging month with great updates🔥 👀Let's take a look at the biggest announcements! ✅🚀OceanONDA V4 The Ocean Public Testing kicked off with bounties on offer for the community to identify security issues for smart contracts. ✅We published the OceanONDA V4 overview blog post authored by founder @trentmc0 V4 brings: – ERC721 data NFTs for more flexibility in data IP management – Better monetization for the Ocean community https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-v4-overview-1ccd4a7ce150 🚀ECOSYSTEM ✅Ocean supported the @realdatawhale impression airdrop and incentivised the community for content creation around Ocean Protocol. https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1604853954960953344

ICYMI| This week at Ocean 🌊 ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 ✅@Faculty__Group - Ocean's latest investment partner - has pledged a total of $5 Million to support the $OCEAN project ecosystem fund. Read more: https://oceanprotocol.com/press/2022-12-15-faculty-group-allocates-USD$5mil-to-the-ocean-protocol-ecosystem-fund https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1603774755856740352?s=46&t=FjALWduFprsrIOaA2PsgGw

Great going, Oceaners!✨🌊 We're hitting milestone after milestone 🚀♥️ As of today, 27.13 Million $OCEAN are locked 🔐 for veOCEAN👀 If you haven't engaged with veOCEAN yet, you're missing out! 🥸 Go to http://df.oceandao.org, lock your $OCEAN & earn rewards!✅ https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1603761604423651328?s=20&t=qGnssZ0s36oqM_ajGoROsA