Roadmap

Roadmap Update

Every 4–6 months, Ocean releases an updated roadmap and evaluate how it has performed in delivering the steps outlined on the previous roadmap. Let’s take a look at where Ocean Protocol has come since the last roadmap update early this year, and check out the direction where Ocean is headed in the great beyond.

What’s new?

In February, Ocean Protocol released the updated V2 Technical Whitepaper, which elaborated upon the original mission & values behind the protocol, but also laid the groundwork for the detailed architecture, decentralized orchestration, proofs of service, and established that a POA Network would come first to offer improved analytics/machine learning performance.

At the end of Q1, Nile Test Network was ready to launch, and after extensive testing, it was released to the general public in early April. This marked a significant and important step forward in the creation of A New Data Economy, and it was a rewarding moment as the team watched the fruits of the tireless effort come to life — everything was there to build a test data marketplace.

With Nile, users could for the first time deploy keeper contracts to run nodes in the network, and developers could use the Squid libraries (in Python, JavaScript, and Java) to start building on the Ocean Protocol.

Nile also unlocked two new reference implementations: the Data Commons Marketplace, and Manta Ray, Ocean’s Jupyter notebook implementation for data scientists.

Technical Sprint Updates

Another noteworthy step forward in the ever-accelerating course towards transparency has been the publishing of regular updates on the longstanding internal Development Sprints. Each sprint lasts approximately 2 weeks, and while projects can (and often do) last for more than 1 sprint, segmenting the workflow this way allows the Ocean development team to maximise productivity. You can read our 2 most recent Sprint Summaries here and here.

So, what now?

Next up will be the main event- the release of Pacific (ed. — done), PoA Network! This release will unlock the following:

PoA Network token

PoA SEAs

token bridge between Ethereum Mainnet and PoA network

This next release will also expand upon some other key features of the Nile testnet, such as:

Level 2 Squid APIs including:

Java, JS, and Python APIs Java and Python CLIs

Level 3 Data Commons deployment, including:

AI for Good Stability of the consume flow

This release is right around the corner…. Stay tuned!

And, then what comes after?

Even though Pacific will be released imminently, the work is far from finished and the team will continue making improvements until the New Data Economy is well-established and self-regulating.

Following PoA network release (V1), there will be multiple additions for improving V1. These enhancements include the following:

Audit of the POA Governance Contracts and enabling the Governance contracts as part of the Network Improvements/Fixes to the Commons Marketplace Security audit of all the Keeper Contracts

Looking further through the periscope, the following are the specifications for future releases as we currently see them It is important to note that, as with all software development, these benchmarks and timeframes are subject to change. As always, the foundation will continue to provide regular updates and transparency reports on where Ocean Protocol is headed.