Technical Architecture

This chapter describes the technical details of the Ocean Enterprise technical stack.

Architecture Overview

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

• 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

• FAQ

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