**Data Farming (DF) is Ocean's incentive program.** It rewards OCEAN to participants who lock OCEAN into veOCEAN, curate data, or make predictions -- all in the name of driving **data consume volume** (DCV). DF is a bit like DeFi liquidity mining, but tuned for DCV.
## <span style="color:red;">New changes are in the air while wating for ASI voting from the Fetch and SingularityNET communities to go trough, which could be found in [this blogpost.](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/superintelligence-alliance-updates-to-data-farming-and-veocean-68d7b29c5100) </span>
### The main changes while the voting process is ongoing are:
- **Passive DF and Volume DF rewards are going to be stopped** starting with **round 83** until the Voting process will come to an end.
- **All actions around the veOCEAN lock(lock, update lock) are going to be disabled** on the data farming website during this period, and we recomand users to **DO NOT INTERACT DIRECTLY WITH THE SMARTCONTRACTS.**
- **Predictoor DF will continue** regardless of voting outcome.
### How the vote outcome is going to affect Data Farming?
- If "yes" - **veOCEAN will be retired**, but each address that has locked OCEAN for veOCEAN and is holding veOCEAN will be made whole by an **OCEAN airdrop** of (1.25^years_til_unlock) — 1) * num_OCEAN_locked.
- If "no" - **Passive DF & Volume DF will resume** as-is.
DF is organized into two streams: Passive DF and Active DF. Each has 50% of the DF budget. Passive DF allows for passive earning potential. Active DF requires more engagement; it has several substreams, each with its own activity.
1.**[Passive DF](passivedf.md).** 150,000 OCEAN per week. Lock OCEAN for **veOCEAN**; rewards are pro-rata to veOCEAN holdings.
1.**Active DF.** 150,000 OCEAN per week. It has these substreams:
1.**[Volume DF](volumedf.md).** Allocate veOCEAN towards data assets with high DCV, ie "curate data". Rewards are a function of DCV and veOCEAN stake. 112.5K OCEAN/week.
1.**[Predictoor DF](predictoordf.md).** Run prediction bots to earn continuously. 37.5K OCEAN/week.
Active DF's substreams can -- and do -- evolve over time. It's chronicled [here](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-data-farming-series-c7922f1d0e45).
**[Reward Schedule](reward-schedule.md)**. The 300,000 OCEAN / week currently available for DF rewards will increase over time to over 1.1M OCEAN / week.
**[Yields](apys.md)**. Historically, APYs are 5-20%. APYs vary week to week. APY depends on total OCEAN staked, duration of OCEAN lock, DCV, what DF streams you participate in, and other factors.
- 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.
