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Attention⏳

Just 10 days left until the LiteracyForge Data Annotation Challenge ends!

Help shape the future of adaptive education by simply reading and evaluating short passages

Prize Pool: $10,000 USD
End: 18 Sep 2025, 15:00 UTC

Be part of building high-quality datasets that power smarter AI systems:

https://app.lunor.quest/challenge/1000038/0

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1965397724733325371

AI meets DePIN in Tokyo 🇯🇵

Join AI x DePIN Connect 2025 for insights & networking

📅 Sept 12, 1–5 PM
📍 Marked Shibuya

Hosted by Ocean Protocol &
@PacificMeta_ja, @OasisProtocol, @JanctionMGT, @dune_Japan, @akindo_io


Register👇

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

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1965039573073064239

We're going into the weekend with a 🔥 convo on AI, compute, and the future of power, feat. @trentmc0 and @edhesse79, Founder & CEO of @energywebx

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1964008371587084675?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

AI is scaling faster than hardware can keep up.

By 2030, training runs will be 10,000× bigger than today, but power limits, GPU shortages, and latency are already slowing things down

Ocean Nodes will soon enable scaling by converting any high-performance GPU device into a compute node for AI training. With on-demand GPU access, you get instant, flexible compute for every AI need, without the hassle of managing infrastructure

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

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1963958170662887648

You want to train smarter AI models without burning through GPUs?

Here’s how:

With the Ocean VS @code
extension, you can soon run private compute jobs directly inside your editor, no setup, no servers to manage. Just open your algorithm file, hit run, and let serverless globalized compute handle the rest

Explore how it’ll be as simple as code -> run -> results, with no infrastructure headaches and pay-as-you-go flexibility:
https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/free-compute-to-data-with-ocean-nodes-vscode-extension-1f8385cb077c

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1963588187416109141

What makes an AI system truly smart, the algorithm or the data it learns from? It's the data

High-quality data originates from annotation, which takes raw text, images, and signals and transforms them into structured knowledge, thereby driving accuracy, reliability, and adaptability

Simply put, intelligence starts with the annotation of data

Join the challenge and earn rewards: https://app.lunor.quest/challenge/1000038

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1963195379014324463?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

Let's network in Tokyo

Explore AI x DePIN Connect 2025, hosted by Ocean Protocol + @PacificMeta_ja with @OasisProtocol, @JanctionMGT, @dune_Japan & @akindo_io

📅September 12, Friday, 1:00–5:00 PM
📍Marked Shibuya, Tokyo

Register: https://luma.com/AI-DePIN-Connect-2025

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1963277042507448413?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

Seoul, we’re coming your way 🇰🇷

On Sep 24, join us at the "DePIN & DeFAI Rooftop", hosted by @oceanprotocol & our frens at @OasisProtocol

Expect fresh perspectives on decentralized AI + DePIN, and connect with fellow pioneers

📍Hotel Cappuccino

https://luma.com/depin-defai-rooftop

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1962587953273647599?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

Gm Oceaners

AI without privacy is as harmful as data without protection

Ocean tech can fix both the compute & data side

Explore the privacy-preserving tech: https://oceanprotocol.com/build/developer-hub/

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1962444191193035215?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

AI is going bananas these days

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1961379602095640933?s=46&t=sfyIS0XeZHZd-w68hBLkvw

Hey, Oceaners! We're launching the Annotators Hub

What is it, you might ask?

It's a community-driven initiative where you guys take on structured challenges to review, evaluate, and ultimately create the high-quality datasets that actually train AI for real-world use

First challenge: LiteracyForge Quest

-Read short English passages
-Answer comprehension questions
-Rate text + question difficulty & quality

Why it matters:
Your human reasoning = the key ingredient missing from today’s AI.
By contributing, you’ll help create adaptive tutors + better literacy tools for millions of learners worldwide.

🗓 Aug 28 – Sep 18, 2025
💰 $10,000 USDC prize pool
⚡️ Platforms:
@lunor_ai
(profiles + leaderboard) + http://Prodi.gy (tasks)

Your share of the prize depends on your valid contributions

Example: if all participants score 10,000 points total, and you contribute 500 points, you’ll earn $500 USDC

https://app.lunor.quest/challenge/1000038

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1961036526743142565

Running compute jobs for AI doesn’t have to be complicated

When you’re building AI, you need a setup that brings compute, privacy, and algorithms in a seamless manner

That’s exactly what the Ocean VS
@Code
extension offers. You can run private compute jobs directly from your IDE, while Ocean Nodes handle the backend compute power for you. No extra setup

With just a few clicks, you’re ready to build, train, and scale your models, right where you code.

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

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1960658773548122195

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

https://x.com/oceanprotocol/status/1960329808392409358

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

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

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

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

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

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