Ocean Protocol OCEAN
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CM Profile: Ocean Protocol
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about OCEAN, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of OCEAN on Ethereum returned 13.8% less than the quoted price, on 20 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 1 October 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold OCEAN. How each part is worked out
What it actually costs to sell OCEAN
Selling $100,000 of OCEAN returned 13.8% less than the quoted price — Costly. Measured 2026-10-20 on Ethereum.
What Ocean Protocol is
Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem for sharing data and associated services. It provides a tokenized service layer exposing data, storage, compute and algorithms for consumption, backed by deterministic proofs of availability and integrity that function as verifiable service agreements. Staking on services signals quality and reputation and is intended to guard against Sybil attacks.
Within the ecosystem, data and algorithms are represented as assets, while integration, processing and persistence are represented as services. Ocean Protocol facilitates discovery by storing and promoting metadata and linking assets to services, and it provides a licensing framework with tools for pricing. Multiple data marketplaces can connect to the protocol to provide the "last mile" between data providers and consumers; the design intent is that a data owner is not locked into any single marketplace and retains control over each dataset.
Ocean Protocol is infrastructure for data exchange, not a data marketplace itself, a compute provider, or an AI model — it supplies the tokenized layer that such services can plug into. The source describes proof mechanisms and staking for quality signaling, but offers no detail here on how disputes are resolved or how staked value is slashed in practice. It is classified by CoinGecko across several categories — artificial intelligence, storage, DePIN among them — which reflects tagging rather than a single defined use case. OCEAN is deployed across several chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Energi and Sora; a multi-chain footprint spreads activity but also multiplies the bridges and contracts a holder is exposed to. Nothing in the source speaks to governance rights, revenue share, or token utility beyond staking — those claims, if made elsewhere, are not part of this record.
Where OCEAN lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Ocean Protocol data synced 5m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell OCEAN.