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1/6 ICYMI| This week at Ocean 🌊 ✅The Ocean X @dimitratech Phase 2 Data Challenge is live on @questbookapp. 💰Prize pool - $10K USD (paid in OCEAN) ⏰DDL - September 30 at midnight UTC Enter the competition here: https://bit.ly/3QL24JP 2/6 ✅The Ocean Shipyard Data Storage Initiative closes tonight @ midnight UTC📢 💰$50K USD (in OCEAN) on offer for funding 🗒️Fill in the form here: https://forms.gle/Cjd148ejK6qKAQfL9 3/6 The @OceanDAO_ Round 22 of funding is now live for #Web3 project proposals that will grow the ecosystem. 💰Grant: 65,000 USD (paid in OCEAN) ⏰DDL: October 10 @ midnight UTC 4/6 LISTING 💰 @fringefinance listed $OCEAN as a lending collateral asset. 💸$OCEAN holders will be able to take out decentralized, permissionless $USDC loans. More here: https://t.co/6HbTslOT1i 5/6 MEDIA 👀📺 🛠️Ocean founder @BrucePon explored the opportunities Ocean's create for decentralized digital identities of the future through @moveID_gaiax in this recent interview: https://t.co/J2Gx1doWRO 6/6 T

MEDIA|📺📰 Ocean's recent collaboration with @chainstep, @Datarella, @Fetch_ai, @peaqnetwork and @51nodes on the €20M+ @gaiax_aisbl @moveID_gaiax initiative led by @BoschGlobal has been covered by @crowdfundinside 👀🚀 Read more about the project here: https://t.co/fYMHmZYNQG https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1573314684715151361?s=20&t=SxijDeWi6OYd0GE-VzGRgQ

What is the potential for Boson? "Boson... in the future could end up being critical infrastructure for World3 " - @trentmc0, Boson Advisor & Co-founder @oceanprotocol Watch the Boson Protocol v2 Fireside ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6lk7g_bjA https://twitter.com/BosonProtocol/status/1572963124646486017

⚠️Today is the LAST DAY for your to submit your applications! 📅The Ocean Shipyard Data Storage Initiative closes tonight @ midnight UTC📢 🗒Fill in the form by then and you could be funded with $50K USD (in OCEAN) for your data storage solution! https://forms.gle/Cjd148ejK6qKAQfL9 🎁Let's recap what is on offer! ✅Tech support and guidance from the Ocean engineering team ✅Individual grants with varying amounts for a decentralised data storage backend for Ocean & integration of specific microservices including @Filecoin and @ArweaveTeam. 👀You can find out more about the initiative by accessing the dedicated announcement here: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-shipyard-kicks-off-the-data-storage-initiative-588e4fc3deae https://twitter.com/oceanprotocol/status/1573296879240359936

https://www.cryptohopper.com/blog/5872-hottest-web3-projects-to-look-out-for-in-2022 MEDIA| 🚀📰 #Web3 is the 3rd stage of the internet revolution and Ocean is a project leading this movement. Read more in this latest article on 🔥 "Hottest Web3 Projects to look out for" among @Polkadot @brave @Theta_Network ✨ 💬"Built on the Ethereum network, Ocean Protocol facilitates data exchange among businesses and individuals. Purchasers can redeem “datatokens” and get access to the data. Data providers can share their data and get “OCEAN” tokens, in return."

What are the crypto opportunities for quants in the near future? 💰 Ocean's Product Strategist @andreaarmanni2 will discuss it in a dedicated panel at the 2022 @quantbattle London! 🇬🇧 📅Sep 27 @ 3:05 PM UTC https://battleofthequants.com/london-2022 Speaker sneak-peek👀 🔥This year's event hosts an impressive lineup of industry leaders like #SilviaStanescu - Investment director at @GAMinsights, #DavidJessop - Head of Investment Risk at @CTInvest_US, #RobertMoore - Head of Quantitative Strategies at @ManGroup & many more! Featured speakers at the event also include @ainsworld, Head of Data Insights at @Schroders, #AndyLee, Director at @ExegyInc and @bengoertzel, CEO at @singularity_net! 🎟️Get your tickets now at bit.ly/3fcoypF

🚀The weekly Community Jam session is upon us and this one is extra special 🌊 - featuring a guest presentation on Netflix Data by @datalatte_ CEO #AmirMabhout! 👀🛠️ 😍Don't forget to tune in here: bit.ly/3Tp8bWJ 📅tomorrow at 3PM at UTC

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

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

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

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

1/6 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

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

🔷 @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

📅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

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

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

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