Algovera Blog

Technical Words

• Public keys - Tell people to send and receive tokens
• Private keys - Keep to yourself
• Tokens - Exchange value
• Rinkeby Testnet - Playground environment with test tokens
• Ocean Protocol - Marketplace for data and algorithms with public or private permissions

Flow

Part 1

• Data Ingestion
  • Simulate buying a dataset
  • Download a dataset sample from Ocean in Jupyter
• Locally train DCGAN model

Part 2

• Publish DCGAN Algorithm
• Whitelist Dataset for Algorithm

Introduction

The NFT market exploded over the past year and according to @hildobby’s dashboard. LooksRare has taken over Volume from OpenSea measured in USD volume.

Because of the activity and notability of NFTs, the Algovera Team thought a proof of concept (POC) using NFTs could persuade data scientists to become more involved in the web3 space. The open source NFT dataset chosen is the notorious 8bit Crypto Punks. This dataset was chosen because of notoriety in web3 and the low resolution nature. Hopefully crypto punks will become a CIFAR-10 like image dataset for web3!

Getting Started - Start by cloning the Github repository and install the required Python packages.

conda create -n yourenv pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

• The nuance of Web3 is you need to have an address. However, this address can be used among all Ethereum web3 applications. So either download the MetaMask Chrome Extension for a more permanent account or use the temporary account created for you in the notebook.