docs/content/concepts/production-network.md

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title: The Ocean Production Network
description: An introduction to the Ocean Production Network.
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**At the time of writing, there was no live, running, publicly-available Ocean Production Network.**

Ocean Protocol makes use of several EVM-compatible networks, including:

- the Ethereum Mainnet (also called the Main Ethereum Network),
- various [testnets](/concepts/testnets/), and
- in the future, the Ocean Production Network.

The Ocean Production Network will be an EVM network of nodes ("keepers") running [Parity Ethereum](https://www.parity.io/ethereum/) software. Various Ocean Protocol smart contracts ("keeper contracts") will be deployed to it. It will be used for production use cases. It is also known by other names, including:

- The Main Ocean Network
- The Ocean Mainnet
- The Production-Ready Ocean Network
- The Ocean Live Network
- (among the internal dev team) The Ocean Pacific Network, or just Pacific

"Network" is sometimes shortened to just "Net."

[Ocean Tokens](/concepts/ocean-tokens/) can, in principle, live in any EVM-compatible network. The ones sold in the Ocean Protocol token sale were in the Ethereum Mainnet (and still were, at the time of writing). For more information, see [the page about Ocean Tokens](/concepts/ocean-tokens/).