This is a quiet but essential layer in the AI economy

The real challenge isn’t just training bigger models, it’s accessing siloed, high-value data while preserving privacy

Ocean’s Data NFTs bring ownership, metadata, and access control on-chain, enabling secure, auditable, decentralised data sharing

Learn more: https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/contracts/data-nfts

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1950123784477856170

You’re not just running code

You’re running decentralised AI compute on live data, without ever touching cloud servers

Ocean Nodes handle the heavy lifting, privately and on your terms

In this clip, our engineer Maria walks you through how it actually works

More on Compute-to-Data:
https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/free-compute-to-data-with-ocean-nodes-vscode-extension-1f8385cb077c

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1950484145584357885

Decentralised Computing in Practice: How Ocean Nodes Power Real AI

The Evolution of Distributed Computing: From Mainframes to Ocean Nodes

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1950918000833401254

Getting access to data shouldn't take days

You shouldn't have to compromise privacy to train your models

Ocean Protocol fixes that

Train on remote data, stay compliant, and skip the bottlenecks

Powered by Ocean py, Ocean CLI, and Compute-to-Data

Start here: https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/ocean-cli

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As we move toward frontier technologies like brain-computer interfaces & advanced AI, privacy becomes essential

To protect both personal data and neural signals, we need sovereign tech for compute and data

Ocean founder @trentmc0
explores this shift and the transformative potential of BCI applications in his talk at @Web3summit 2025

Watch here: https://youtu.be/fRfvLpIlaVU?si=kXHwa0PuxXqrNsjH

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1952306995727355947

“Humanity needs to rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light... and that path is accelerating BCI. It gives us a fighting chance for our brains to touch silicon.”

In this video, Ocean Protocol founder @trentmc0
shares why brain-computer interfaces (BCI) could give us a fighting chance by extending our cognition and escaping the limits of biology

Watch the full video below

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1953037763554512922

Let your AI do the heavy lifting—and the earning!

Send your bot’s UP/DOWN calls to ASI Predictoor and stack crypto rewards for every nailed prediction.

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📖 Read this week's reward details on our blog:

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Let’s rewind

AI started on mainframes. Then came the cloud. But computing remained centralised, expensive, gated, and limited

Ocean Nodes unlock a new era: decentralised AI computing from idle machines around the world

The architecture is shifting

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AI needs more than data, it needs trust in the data

With Ocean’s on-chain tracking and Compute-to-Data, AI models can train on private datasets without ever moving them

Here’s how it works:

1. Publish with Data NFTs – Data owners mint a Data NFT in Ocean, registering the dataset on-chain with a cryptographic proof (hash) while keeping the raw data private
2. Train via Compute-to-Data – AI models run on the dataset in secure, off-chain environments using Ocean Compute-to-Data, so the data never leaves the owner's control
3. Verify on-chain – The compute job posts a tamper-proof record (attestation) on-chain through Ocean smart contracts, proving it was executed as agreed
4. Automatic payment – Once the proof checks out, Ocean payment smart contracts release the funds instantly to the data provider & compute node

With this, AI can tap into private, high-value datasets while data owners retain full control and privacy, with every transaction transparently tracked, verified, and economically aligned on-chain

https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/compute-to-data

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New Data Quest: SignalBoost

Curate market-moving crypto news and win your share of $5K

Aug 11 – Sep 30 | Join in 👇

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From data tokenization to private compute, Ocean is your All-in-One Privacy-Preserving Data & Compute Suite

1. Tokenize your data with Ocean CLI, easily convert raw data into Data NFTs, making it uniquely ownable and tradable on-chain
2. Then, create Data Tokens from these NFTs to enable seamless, programmable access and monetization
3. With Ocean Nodes, decentralized infrastructure powers secure data discovery, storage, and transfer across networks
4. Need private compute? Ocean Compute-to-Data (C2D) lets you run AI models on data without exposing the raw info, preserving privacy and compliance

Learn more: https://oceanprotocol.com/build/developer-hub/

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1956297817078534278?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

The future of AI + Data + Compute is being built at @ETHGlobal NYC starting today through to August 17!

The @ASI_Alliance - @oceanprotocol, @SingularityNET & @Fetch_ai, with @fetch_ai_IL as dev rel partner, are dropping a $10K challenge:

Build agentic AI
Leverage Ocean’s Compute-to-Data to run full privacy-preserving computations
Deploy to Agentverse

Let’s ship it in the city that never sleeps with a sleepless 👀36-hour hackathon.

And if you’re not there, you can still drop your ideas in the comments 👇

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1956347210926272817?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

If you’re running an AI job, and that’s the only proof you get. Well, you’re trusting a black box.

Ocean Nodes change that with On-chain verifiable compute, cryptographic proofs that your job ran exactly as specified, on the right data, with no leaks or tampering.

Benefits?

1. Provable AI outputs for regulated industries
2. Trustless collaboration between data owners & AI devs
3. Tamper-proof audit trails for every compute cycle

Soon, the standard for verifiable AI:

https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/ocean-node

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1957385484117934276?t=z9CIYR5ChH7goXVOHOmhlA&s=19

Dashboards slow you down

You need compute + data access inside your workflow, not another tab

The Ocean VS Code Extension lets you run compute jobs, train models, run inference, and tap decentralized compute right from your editor

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/free-compute-to-data-with-ocean-nodes-vscode-extension-1f8385cb077c

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1958110280375816403

Every AI project hits the same wall: inference is expensive, GPUs are scarce, and cloud vendors lock you in

Ocean Nodes will soon provide decentralized compute on demand, directly connected to your data pipelines.

Core advantages:

1. On-demand inference: access distributed GPU/CPU when you need it
2. Privacy-preserving: run inference close to the data, without exposing raw files
3. Scalable & trustless: workloads validated on-chain, no single point of failure

With Ocean Nodes, you can deploy inference jobs on decentralized infrastructure that scales with your data

Learn how:


https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/ocean-node

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1958831028438438238

Working with decentralized compute should feel natural

That’s why we built the Ocean VS Code Extension, run jobs, train models, and tap into Ocean Nodes directly

Now live on the code marketplace

https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/developers/vscode

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1959904289784221908

Japan, let’s network

At AI + DePIN Connect 2025, we’ll walk through how you can monetize idle compute, how a network can build a decentralized backbone for AI, and what’s coming next for Ocean Protocol

Join us: https://luma.com/AI-DePIN-Connect-2025

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