Ocean Protocol is a founding member of the ASI Alliance and a leader in decentralized data infrastructure. Built to unlock data for AI while preserving privacy and ownership, Ocean provides the tooling and economics for data exchange, data sovereignty, and compute-to-data capabilities—all essential to powering ethical and decentralized AI systems.

Within the ASI Alliance, Ocean powers the data backbone—enabling developers, researchers, enterprises, and data providers to publish, consume, and monetize data securely and transparently.

What Ocean Protocol Enables

Decentralized Data Sharing

Ocean allows anyone to publish data services as interoperable smart contracts on-chain. Using Ocean Market or custom interfaces, datasets can be tokenized, priced, and accessed without centralized control. This opens new pathways for AI model training and federated intelligence.

Compute-to-Data

Ocean pioneered Compute-to-Data, a privacy-preserving framework that brings compute to the data—rather than moving sensitive data to centralized servers. This unlocks powerful machine learning on proprietary or regulated datasets (e.g., medical, financial, industrial) without compromising ownership or privacy.

Data NFTs and Datatokens

Ocean introduces a new standard for digital data ownership through Data NFTs (ERC721) and Datatokens (ERC20). These allow for fine-grained permissions, dynamic pricing, and integration with DeFi, making datasets programmable financial assets.

Ocean Shipyard

Shipyard is Ocean’s open innovation and grant program supporting startups, developers, and researchers building with Ocean tools. It funds data marketplaces, tooling, compute integrations, and real-world AI solutions that align with Ocean’s mission.

FOAM by ASI (Formerly FOAM by Ocean)

FOAM is Ocean’s domain-specific program to fund applied data challenges in sectors like energy, finance, and sustainability. Participants earn rewards for solving real-world problems with real datasets. Past examples include electricity market forecasting and Net Zero Buildings intelligence.

Ocean DAO and Community Governance

Ocean is governed by its global community through the OceanDAO, where $OCEAN token holders vote on project funding, roadmap decisions, and ecosystem support. While the token has now merged into $FET under ASI, Ocean’s decentralized governance practices continue to influence data policy and development within the alliance.

Ocean’s Role in the ASI Ecosystem

As the data layer of the ASI Alliance innovation stack, Ocean Protocol provides:

  • Tools for secure, permissioned, and permissionless data exchange
  • Mechanisms for data provenance, access control, and monetization
  • Infrastructure for federated AI and privacy-first collaboration

Ocean’s technologies are foundational to applications built with ASI Train, ASI Learn, and AI agents across the ecosystem. By decentralizing access to high-quality data and enabling transparent, usage-based incentives, Ocean ensures that AI innovation is not limited by access—but powered by it.

Whether you’re a data provider, researcher, enterprise, or developer, Ocean Protocol makes it possible to contribute to—and benefit from—the decentralized AI economy.