It’s time to start shipping code at Ocean Protocol! Welcome to Plankton — Ocean Protocol’s Testnet Version 0.1 release.

Photo by Simon Johnston @ geograph.org.uk

Plankton Milestone — Spree Testnet v0.1

As discussed in the Roadmap blog, we’ve been a little busy here at Ocean #MODL’ing and #BUIDL’ing for the past few months. And now that we’ve reached the point of no return, we’ve decided it’s high time we released some code.

We’ve taken great pains to document as much of the journey as possible along the way. We’ve got Ocean Enhancement Proposals mapping our journey, management boards to track our progress, and (drum roll please! 🥁) the Ocean Protocol GitHub repo that includes the Plankton code base.

While we are working hard to deliver, please recognize that this is the first iteration of the Testnet and, as such, is a work in progress. We plan to spend the next little bit refactoring some elements, adding more comments and descriptions, etc. In particular, our front-end code needs a bit of sugar, and we plan to pile it on in the next few days, but we wanted to get the party started, so we’ve lifted the hull to bare the barnacles and all.

Open.Open.Open

Why are we doing this?

From Day#1 we’ve said we wanted Ocean to be open and transparent, and to get as many people involved as possible. We are doing this for the common good, and that requires everyone’s involvement. So by all means, if you have a question, suggestion, improvement, or complaint, let us know at contact@oceanprotocol.com, drop a comment in this post, message us on Gitter, or raise an issue on GitHub. The more info we get from the community, the better! In the immortal words of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV:

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On Deck…

Once the minor refactors to Plankton are complete, we will shift our focus to delivering the next Testnet milestone, Trilobite. We will provide details on Trilobite shortly, and look forward to everyone’s feedback and involvement! Inclusion is the name of the game, so please feel free to jump aboard the good ship Ocean!!