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👨💻 Developers

What can you build with Ocean?

1. Token-gated dApps & REST APIs: monetize by making your dApp or its REST API token-gated. Here's how.
2. AI dApps: monetize your AI dApp by token-gating on AI training data, feature vectors, models, or predictions.
3. Data Markets: build a decentralized data market.
4. Private user profile data: storing user profile data on your centralized server exposes you to liability. Instead, have it on-chain encrypted by the user's wallet, and just-in-time decrypt for the app. Video, slides.

Example live dapps:

• Data Markets: Acentrik Market for enterprises, and Ocean Market for general.
• Token-gated dapps: Autobot for analytics, and Ocean Waves for music.
• Token-gated feeds: Ocean Predictoor for AI prediction feeds

How do developers start using Ocean?

• App level: Use an Ocean Template.
• Library level: Use ocean.js is a library built for the key environment of dApp developers: JavaScript. Import it & use it your frontend or NodeJS.
• Contract level: Call Ocean contracts on Eth mainnet or other chains.

Developer Docs Quick-links

• Architecture - blockchain/contracts layer, middleware, dapps
• Earning revenue: code to get payment, fractional $, community $
• Schemas: Metadata, identifiers/DIDs, identifier objects/DDOs, storage, fine-grained permissions
• Components:
  • Barge - local chain for testing
  • Ocean subgraph - grabbing event data from the chain
  • Ocean CLI - command-line interface
  • Compute-to-data - practical privacy approach
  • Aquarius - metadata cache
  • Provider - handshaking for access control
• FAQ

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