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description: Buy, mint, and sell all sorts of data on the Ocean Market
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# Guide to the Ocean Market
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### What is the [Ocean Market](https://market.oceanprotocol.com/)? 🛒
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The Ocean Market is a place for buyers + sellers of top-notch data and algorithms to exchange goods. Our market also gives you easy-to-use publishing and purchasing tools to monetize your intellectual property. 🤑 What's not to love? 💕
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#### **You can:**
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* Buy access to unique data, algorithms, and compute jobs. 🛍️
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* Tokenize & monetize your intellectual property through blockchain technology. 💪
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#### **Learn to:**
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* [Publish an NFT ](publish-data-nfts.md )
* [Download NFT Assets ](buy-data-nfts.md )
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* [Host Your Assets ](asset-hosting/ )
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#### Getting Basic 💁♀️
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**If you are new to web3** and blockchain technologies then we suggest you first get familiar with some Web3 basics:
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* [Wallet Basics ](../discover/wallets/ ) 👛
* [Set Up MetaMask ](../discover/wallets/metamask-setup.md ) [Wallet ](../discover/wallets/metamask-setup.md )🦊
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* [Manage Your OCEAN Tokens ](../discover/wallets-and-ocean-tokens.md ) 🪙
