

Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) currently has a price of $0.099 and is down -1.75% over the last 24 hours. The cryptocurrency is ranked 726 with a market cap of $23.8M. Over the last 24 hours, it saw $15.1k of trading volume. The token has a circulating supply of 241M tokens out of a total supply of 267.7M tokens.
Ocean Protocol is a decentralized platform that allows for the secure sharing and monetization of data. Using the OCEAN utility token, users can buy and sell data and services within the ecosystem. Stakeholders can easily access and control data, while smart contracts facilitate automated data exchange between providers and consumers. The protocol also focuses on AI, providing a decentralized marketplace for AI data and connecting data providers and consumers in a transparent and secure manner. Its interoperability with other Ethereum-based dapps and integration with De-Fi and other data monetization services make it stand out in the crypto sphere.
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Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data marketplace infrastructure layer. It allows data owners to publish, sell, and monetize datasets or data services while retaining control over the underlying data.
Ocean Protocol merged with Fetch.ai and SingularityNET to form the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI). The combined entity issues the ASI token, with OCEAN, FET, and AGIX converging through a token merger. The thesis is that combining data infrastructure (Ocean), autonomous AI agents (Fetch.ai), and decentralized AI model marketplace (SingularityNET) creates a vertically integrated decentralized AI stack.
Data NFTs represent the base intellectual property of a dataset, minted as ERC-721 tokens. Datatokens are ERC-20 tokens derived from a Data NFT that function as access tokens: holding one datatoken grants access to the underlying dataset for one compute job or download.
OCEAN functions as: (1) a medium of exchange for purchasing datatokens, (2) a governance token for OceanDAO treasury allocations, (3) a staking asset in Data Farming, where staking on datasets earns rewards proportional to dataset usage. Post-ASI merger, OCEAN’s standalone utility is being consolidated into ASI token mechanics.
Compute-to-Data allows an algorithm to run directly on a private dataset at the data provider’s infrastructure without the algorithm owner ever accessing the raw data. The data stays local; only the computation result is returned. This addresses the core privacy paradox in data markets: owners want to monetize without exposing proprietary or sensitive data.