💻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. Here's how

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.

5. Infrastructure for Decentralized Compute: Run an Ocean Node by monetizing your unused hardware, such as your gaming laptop, old laptops or desktops, GPU servers, & more. You will find more info on this page

6. AI models: Using the Ocean VS Code extension, users can build and run AI algorithms on decentralized compute resources, resulting in a fully trained AI model ready for deployment.

Example live dapps:

• Data Markets: Ocean Market.

• Token-gated dapps: 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

  • Ocean Nodes - Decentralized units that turn idle hardware into a global AI compute network for scalable, privacy-preserving tasks.

  • Ocean VS code extension - A developer tool that lets you build, run, and manage AI algorithms on Ocean decentralized compute network directly from VS Code.

• FAQ

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