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Phase 2 of Ocean Nodes is in the works — and we need your support to push it forward. We’re calling on you, our node operators community, and offering the exclusive opportunity to become Alpha GPU Testers for the next decentralized Compute-as-a-Service GPU Network, powered by Ocean Protocol. Be among the selected 15 to test and shape the Ocean Nodes Phase 2 rollout — while earning rewards for putting your GPU resources to work. Details, setup guide & timeline: 🔗 https://github.com/oceanprotocol/community-initiatives/blob/main/alfa-testers/README.md Onwards and upwards! 🌊

The ASI Alliance from Ocean’s Perspective By @brucepon People are rightly angry and frustrated. No one is a winner in this current state of unease, lack of information and transparency, and mudslinging. Ocean doesn’t see the benefit of throwing around unfounded and false allegations or the attempts to sully the reputations of the projects and people – it just damages both the ASI and Ocean communities unnecessarily. Ocean has chosen to remain silent until now, out of respect for the ongoing legal processes. But given so many flagrant violations of decency, Ocean would like to take an opportunity to rebut many publicly voiced false allegations, libels, and baseless claims being irresponsibly directed towards the Ocean Protocol project. The false and misleading statements serve only to further inflame our community, while inciting anger and causing even more harm to the ASI and Ocean communities than is necessary. Rather than throw unsubstantiated jabs, I would like to provide a full context with supporting evidence and links, to address many of the questions around the ASI Alliance, Ocean’s participation, and the many incorrect allegations thrown out to muddy the waters and sow confusion among our community. This blogpost will be followed up with a claim-by-claim rebuttal of all the allegations that have been directed towards Ocean since October 9, 2025 but for now, this blog gives the context and Ocean’s perspective. I encourage you to read it all, as it reflects months of conversations that reveal the context and progression of events, so that you can best understand why Ocean took steps to chart a separate course from the ASI Alliance. We hope the ASI Alliance can continue its work and we wish them well. Meanwhile, Ocean will go its own way, as we have every right to do. These are the core principles of decentralization – non-coercion, non-compulsion, individual agency, sovereign property ownership and the power of you, the individual, to own and control your life. https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-asi-alliance-from-oceans-perspective-f7848b2ad61f https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1981298726611108204

We acknowledge that binance has the sole discretion to list and accept deposits of $OCEAN. We look forward to continued productive and collaborative cooperation with Binance in the future. https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1978807570371318258

Ocean 🌊 is working and active. We are refraining from engaging in unfounded claims and harmful rumours that make the situation worse for the entire ASI and Ocean communities. Ocean had earlier suggested waiving confidentiality over the adjudicator's recent findings as a means of allowing the communities to see the truth for themselves. However, Mr Humayun Sheikh refused this. We are therefore preparing responses to the various unfounded claims and allegations while respecting the ambits of the law. In the meantime, please be assured the Ocean treasury is safe, intact, and will continue to be deployed for the benefit of the Ocean community. https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1978766932569419873

CivicLens is live: Making EU debates machine-readable Help annotate European Parliament speeches—label vote intent, tone, focus, claims, topics & ideology hints. 🏆 $10,000 prize pool 🗓 Oct 15 → Oct 31 👇 More details [link in comments below]: https://x.com/lunor_ai/status/1978488434298925337

I apologize for interrupting your discussions guys 😂😂 But the results of the challenge are already ready!

🥁 The LiteracyForge Challenge results are in 🏆 Over 79 contributors earned up to $1,587 USDC by submitting nearly 33k high-quality annotations. This curated dataset will train more inclusive and effective AI for education 💪 See the full breakdown and learn why human-curated data matters in the blogpost: [link in comments]👇 https://x.com/lunor_ai/status/1978129895138930826?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

To the entire Ocean and ASI community. We are eager to share more information about Ocean’s departure from the ASI Alliance, to answer many of the valid questions by the community and respond forcefully to allegations raised. We are, however, constrained from sharing the truth and facts at the moment. Please standby while the process works its way through and as soon as we can share more, we will. https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1976545764961669455?t=otV0KF0mIrDzlZa430Z-5Q&s=19

Ocean Protocol Foundation withdraws from the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1976136922289308064?s=09

Level up your AI workflow with the Ocean VS @code Extension: 1. Tap decentralized compute (via Ocean Nodes) 2. Write Python/JS algorithms right in VS Code 3. Monitor jobs, fetch results, optimize fast Read more https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/vscode https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1975904388184166483

Great AI needs clean labels The Annotators Hub turns annotation into a global effort: clear guides, quality reviews, and rewards Help build fair, reliable datasets across education, healthcare & beyond Next challenge goes live this week https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1975532007989113072

More compute, better models Then the ceiling hits: data and architecture. Getting there demands elastic, high-performance access Ocean Nodes is our path to a global serverless compute layer for training and inference Open and portable https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1975184914497560785

AI Drift. Stop Chasing Models. Fix Your Labels First. https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1974121933747663333

From idle GPUs to accelerated global compute We’re building toward a peer-to-peer network that makes serverless AI more open, affordable, and privacy-aware https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1973763700013293847

Everyone talks about model training. Few talk about data labeling The Annotators Hub turns data annotation into a community effort with clear tasks, quality checks, and rewards Better labels -> better models New Annotation Challenge starts soon, stay tuned https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1973379207544602711

AI powers everything today, from search engines to chatbots, and it all depends on computing from GPUs & CPUs As AI systems scale, demand for compute grows just as fast. Building more data centers isn’t a complete solution, as costs and energy use continue to rise sharply. A better alternative is decentralized computing Ocean Nodes turn compute into a sovereign asset by unlocking billions of idle machines worldwide. This allows AI researchers to rent affordable, distributed compute for their workflows Learn more: https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/ocean-node https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1972980374956376148?t=buwe1x0mxN49vRvVpz_hEw&s=19

Ocean VS code Extension in 2 minutes! From installing to running live compute jobs, then analyzing results, all happens inside your IDE. Plus, data privacy stays intact. Compute comes from a global decentralized GPU network Watch the full workshop: https://youtu.be/be5uq4nnZTU?feature=shared https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1972644801809207520

Data annotators The Literacy Forge Data Annotation Challenge has officially wrapped up We’re now entering the review phase, and results will be shared once ready In the meantime, you can participate in our other available challenge, "SignalBoost": https://app.lunor.ai/challenge/1000037 https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1971162644515258765

Scale your AI with Ocean Nodes With Ocean C2D, data never leaves the owner control, and identities remain private Soon, you will get access to a global network of decentralized GPU clusters that deliver compute on demand Learn more: https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1970834753692598430

Ocean Protocol × Oasis Protocol DePIN & DeFAI is live 🇰🇷 📍 Hotel Cappuccino, Seoul 📆 3:00-8:00 PM (GMT+9) Event Agenda✨ 1) 3:00 – 3:30 PM → Welcome & Registration 2) 3:30 – 3:50 PM → Keynote: Decentralized AI – Bringing User Self-Sovereignty Back by matejanez , Head of Partnerships at Oasis 3) 3:50 – 4:10 PM → Exciting insights from mihai_mas , Product Lead at Ocean 4) 4:10 – 4:30 PM → Live Demo of Ocean Nodes by Ocean core engineer BogdanFazakas 5) 4:30 – 4:45 PM → Fireside Chat: "WTF is AI taking DeFAI?" featuring 751_eth (Cofounder, @exagroupxyz ) & @markowifk (Head of AI, Oasis) Seats are limited https://luma.com/depin-defai-rooftop?tk=WobWwA https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1970754759528157260