{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-22T15:25:37.443Z","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","cite_as":"Own Your Mind, \"Decentralised AI Freedom and Returns score dataset\", https://ownyourmind.ai/integrity/","attribution":"Own Your Mind (ownyourmind.ai). Link the specific project review when citing a single project.","integrity_notice":{"summary":"Each integrity record carries its own record_type, verdict and assessment_level. A 'claim' record quotes the project's own published statement; a 'reported' value is that claim, not a verified fact, unless verdict is 'match'. A 'finding' record is our own measurement and grades no one's claim. assessment_level 'not-assessed' means unchecked, never clean. Findings are dated snapshots, not a live feed.","verdicts":{"match":"verified against independent data","inflated":"reported higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to grade","unverified":"independently checkable, not yet checked","unverifiable":"checked, could not independently confirm"},"record_types":{"claim":"the project's own published statement, quoted verbatim, graded against independent data","finding":"our own measurement for a score dimension; no claimant and never a verdict on a claim"},"methodology":"https://ownyourmind.ai/resources/integrity-checks/"},"slug":"ocean","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/ocean.md","title":"Ocean Protocol","token":"OCEAN","category":"data","freedomScore":5.5,"returnsScore":4,"freedomGrade":"C","returnsGrade":"D","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/ocean/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-25","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"total_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"The total token supply is fully emitted, circulating, and permanently capped at approximately 268,000,000 $OCEAN.","source_url":"https://oceanprotocol.com/about-us/ocean-token","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"~268,000,000 OCEAN, fully emitted and permanently capped","source":"Ocean Protocol, OCEAN token page (oceanprotocol.com/about-us/ocean-token)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Holds, and the enforcement is on-chain. totalSupply() = cap() = 1,410,000,000 on the ERC20Capped contract, so no mint remains. balanceOf(0x...dEaD) = 1,142,309,929 OCEAN (81.01%), leaving 267,690,071 OCEAN outside the burn address against the recorded 267,798,450 (0.04% apart). The 81% conversion figure matches the burn-address share to the point.","source":"Ethereum RPC totalSupply(), cap() and balanceOf(dEaD) on 0x967d...9f48, read 2026-09-20; Blockscout verified source (OceanToken)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"core_open_source","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Learn how Ocean Protocol transforms data sharing and monetization with its powerful Web3 open source tools.","source_url":"https://docs.oceanprotocol.com/","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Web3 open source tools","source":"Ocean Protocol docs (docs.oceanprotocol.com)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"OceanToken contract source-verified on Etherscan (0x967d…); github.com/oceanprotocol Apache-2.0, not archived, 220 stars, last push 2026-04-04.","source":"Etherscan getsourcecode (verified) + GitHub API via the coldstart run, 2026-08-10"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_renounced_vs_no_utility","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"The Ocean Protocol Foundation, as the original issuer of the $OCEAN token, renounced all control over the $OCEAN token contract since mid-2023.","source_url":"https://oceanprotocol.com/about-us/ocean-token","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Foundation renounced all control of the OCEAN contract since mid-2023","source":"Ocean Protocol, OCEAN token page (oceanprotocol.com/about-us/ocean-token)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"On-chain owner() = 0x0: ownership of the OCEAN contract is renounced, so mint and pause (onlyOwner) are permanently uncallable. Protocol-native utility is thin in practice: Ocean Network (GPU compute, Mar 2026) settles in USDC, and Ocean states that a portion of ecosystem revenue funds a buyback-and-burn of the ~268M remaining supply, but no burn total after September 2023 is published and we have not verified the programme on chain. Ocean exited the ASI Alliance in Oct 2025 and governs independently.","source":"Ethereum RPC eth_call owner()=0x0 + oceanprotocol.com/about-us/ocean-token + docs.oceanprotocol.com/discover/ocean-token + Ocean Network product, read 2026-08-10"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"OCEAN still trades on Coinbase and Kraken, but Binance has halted its OCEAN markets and total reported volume is very thin.","independent":{"value":"12 tickers on CoinGecko, re-read 2026-09-24 (10 on 2026-09-18). At the 18 September read the largest venue was a DEX (Uniswap V2), ahead of Kraken and Coinbase, and OCEANUSDT, OCEANBTC and OCEANBUSD all returned status BREAK on Binance's exchangeInfo; the only Binance-branded venue was Binance US. Turnover was a 0.276% 7-day median.","source":"CoinGecko tickers + market_chart, read 2026-09-06 (paginated ticker set, 7-day turnover median)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"About four fifths of OCEAN supply sits at the burn address; of what remains, the ten largest non-infrastructure holders control roughly half.","independent":{"value":"81.01% of total supply sits at the burn address after the ASI conversion, so any top-10 share measured against total supply is diluted by tokens nobody holds. Infra-excluded top-10 is 9.90% of total supply, which is roughly 52% of the ~19% that was not burned. Across 38,386 holders the largest live positions are modest: one unattributed address at 4.33%, a VotingEscrow contract at 1.90%, Kraken at 0.77%. Five of the top ten carry no label.","source":"Ethereum Blockscout token-holders index via scripts/refresh-holder-concentration.py, classified by coldstart.sources.holders, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"token_control_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The OCEAN token has no live owner lever: ownership is renounced and the contract reads not paused.","independent":{"value":"Ownership on the OCEAN token is renounced and the contract reads not paused, so neither a pause nor a mint lever exists on the token today. The CertiK audit's owner-control finding concerns Ocean's other contracts.","source":"Ethereum RPC control-surface probe on 0x967da4048cd07ab37855c090aaf366e4ce1b9f48, via npm run discover:control-surface, read 2026-09-07"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_governance_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The OCEAN token has no upgrade or admin path: it is not a proxy, its owner is the zero address, and its supply already equals its coded cap.","independent":{"value":"owner() returns 0x0, the EIP-1967 implementation slot is empty, and totalSupply() equals cap() at 1.41B, so no party can upgrade, pause or mint the token. This covers the token only: Ocean has no on-chain voting, and protocol decisions sit with the Foundation off-chain.","source":"Ethereum RPC (ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com) on OCEAN 0x967da4048cD07aB37855c090aAF366e4ce1b9F48, read 2026-09-25"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-25","severity":"info"}],"facts":[{"metric":"market_activity","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"Ocean Market activity and data-NFT adoption metrics are not publicly disclosed; cannot independently verify how many datasets are published or consumed.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"}]}}