**Data Farming (DF) is Ocean's incentive program.** It rewards OCEAN to participants who lock [OCEAN](https://oceanprotocol.com/about-us/ocean-token) into [veOCEAN](veocean-passivedf.md), curate data, and make predictions -- all in the name of driving **data consume volume** (DCV).
**There is 150,000 OCEAN / week available for DF rewards.** In time, this will increase to over 1.1M OCEAN / week. [Here](ocean-reward-schedule.md) are details.
**DF's main streams are Passive DF and Active DF.** The former allows for passive earning potential, and the latter requires more engagement. Each has 50% of the DF budget.
**Claiming rewards.** You can **[claim rewards](claim-rewards.md)** each Thursday, or wait and claim many weeks' of rewards at once.
**Yields.** Typical reward APYs are 5–20%, but may be as high as 45% and as low as 1%. APYs will vary week to week. APY depends on total OCEAN staked, duration of OCEAN lock, DCV, what DF streams you participate in, and other factors. [Learn more here](apys.md).
Active DF's substreams can -- and do -- evolve over time. It's chronicled [here](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-data-farming-series-c7922f1d0e45).
- The [Ocean Data Farming Series](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-data-farming-series-c7922f1d0e45) blog has a chronological account of all Data Farming activities since its inception. It links to related blog posts.
