https://oceanprotocol.com/ There website.
What is Ocean Protocol?
Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data while guaranteeing control, auditability, transparency and compliance to all actors involved.
Data Providers and Custodians need to feel safe before they will comfortably share data and Ocean Protocol is the solution.
How Ocean Protocol Works
Ocean Protocol provides the underlying technical foundation that data marketplaces need to connect data providers with data consumers in a trusted environment. It nurtures a data ecosystem and community.
Ocean Protocol also enables developers to create new and innovative services for leveraging data.
Project Description
There are many companies in the world that have a considerable amount of data, but do not have the means to maximize it and make it available to the world. At the moment, only about 1% of the data in the world is being analyzed, and this hinders the development of Artificial Intelligence (the most effective data analysis tool).
Conversely, there are lots of new startups that have perfected the act extracting value from data using AI. So, there is demand and there is supply, the only thing missing is a marketplace for both parties to meet, a network of some sort that will connect the owners of data with the people who will help them make their data valuable (and available to the world). Ocean Protocol wants to bridge the disconnect and be that marketplace.
Ocean Protocol plans to create a private and secure network that will make it convenient for both sides to trade data while retaining control. In doing so, they hope to eradicate the risks posed by centralized data exchanges, and give both parties (the suppliers and the data analysts) a potential for exponential growth.
Ocean Protocol is built with DEX, ascribe.io, BigchainDB and IPDB, ergo, it has a solid business basis
The token, OCN, will be the means of exchange on the network. Users earn tokens when they sell data, provide network services (validation and verification services), and/or make public data accessible. OCN is minable and 50% of block reward tokens will be emitted in 10 years.
Hard Cap and Valuation
OCN will have a hard cap of 1.41 billion tokens. The target for the Pre-Launch is €18M for 15% of the tokens, 45% of the tokens are earmarked for network keepers and data providers (minted block reward), while 20% goes to the founding team. The Ocean Protocol foundation gets 10%, and the final 10% is to be withheld for a secondary offering within the next 5 years. Tokens are released on network launch and at this point, 60% of the total OCN will be available.
Important Dates
The network will most likely be launched sometime in the fourth quarter of 2018, however, there is no information on the token sale date as at the time of this publication.
Marketing Power
As of this moment, Ocean Protocol has almost 100 users on Telegram, 460+ subscribers on their Medium page, over 100 Slack users, and 880+ Twitter followers.
Howey’s Test
According to the Howey’s Test conducted by our analysts, it is unlikely that the token, OCN, will be considered a security.
Team Members’ Area of Expertise
Business
Bruce Pon
Founder, and CEO of https://www.bigchaindb.com/ for over a year.
Founder, and CEO of https://www.ascribe.io/ for over 3 years.
Founder and partner at http://www.avantalion.de/en/ for almost 6 years.
Trent McConaghy
Founder, and CTO of http://www.solidodesign.com/ for almost 10 years.
Founder of https://ipdb.io/ (a public database).
Founder and CTO at https://www.bigchaindb.com/.
Daryl Arnold
Founder of DEXTRA (crowdsourcing data-driven solutions to real-world problems).
Founder of https://www.nextbillion.asia/.
Founder of http://connectedlife.io/.
Founder of http://padang.sg/.
CEO of http://newtoncircus.co/ for more than 7 years.
Chirdeep Singh Chhabra
Co-Founder of Audio Search Sarl.
Founder of Livyora (a jewelry company).
CEO at https://www.dex.sg/ for almost a year.
Julian Leitloff
Co-Founder and CEO at https://fractalblockchain.com/ for 4 months until now.
Founder of Fractal Ventures for a year.
Co-Founder and CEO of Harper (adtech ecosystem) for 5 months.
Co-Founder and CEO of https://stilnest.com for 5 years.
Christina Pon
Founder and Managing Partner at http://wefflermark.com for over a year.
Target Market
Trent McConaghy
Founder of https://ipdb.io/ (see above).
Daryl Arnold
Founder of Dextra (see above).
Donald Gossen
Various jobs at http://www.nttdata.com/global/en/ for more than 9 years.
Head of Analytics and big data practice at https://www.everis.com/united-kingdom for almost 2 years.
Timothy Ley
Data Analyst at https://www.dex.sg/ for almost 3 years.
Marketing
Chirdeep Singh Chhabra
Advisor / Strategist / Marketer at https://www.sobees.com/ for almost 3 years.
Masha McConaghy
Founder / CMO at https://www.ascribe.io/ for 3 years.
Oana Ionescu
CEO and Founder of Escu Consulting for over a year.
Head of Marketing for Mercedes for 5 years.
Marketing and Communication Director at https://www.secom.ro/ for over a year.
Marketing and Advertising Manager at https://www.praktiker.ro/ for 3 years.
Christina Pon
Marketing and Communication Director at http://www.romsys.ro/ for more than 1 year.
Founder and Managing Partner at http://wefflermark.com for over a year.
Legal
N/A
Software Engineering
Trent McConaghy
CTO at Solido, and bigchainDB.
Troy McConaghy
Software dev at https://www.ascribe.io/ for over 2 years.
Software dev at bigchainDB for over a year.
Dinh Xuan Nhat
Software engineer at https://www.dex.sg/ for 2 years.
Sylvain Bellemare
Software engineer at https://www.ascribe.io for a year.
Software engineer at https://www.ezeep.com for over 2 years.
Backend developer at https://www.lieferheld.de for 6 months.
Gautam Dhameja
Systems engineer at https://www.infosys.com for nearly 3 years.
Application Engineet at https://www.bigchaindb.com/ for 4 months.
On top of the developers mentioned they have additional decently experienced members on their team.
Blockchain Development
See above; all team members that worked at dex.sg or bigchainDB are experienced in blockchain development.
Token Sale Structure
No visible prior ICO launch experience.
Token Economics
All team members that worked at bigchainDB and dex.sg have a solid experience in token economics and crypto-economics as a whole.