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## Ocean Network
Any EVM-compatible network where Ocean [smart contracts](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/ocean-contracts) are deployed. There can be many Ocean networks and you can use the Ocean Protocol in several EVM-compatible networks, including:
Any EVM-compatible network where [Ocean smart contracts](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/ocean-contracts) are deployed. There can be many Ocean networks and you can use the Ocean Protocol in several EVM-compatible networks, including:
- Ethereum Mainnet
- [Ethereum Mainnet](https://www.ethereum.org)
- Ethereum [test networks](/concepts/testnets/)
## Asset or Data Asset
## Data Service, Data Asset, Datatoken
Anything that can be registered with and made available via an Ocean Network. Examples include data sets, trained model parameters, pipelines, and data-cleaning services.
A data service may serve up a dataset or a compute service like Compute-to-Data. It's characterized by a url.
Each data asset is represented by an ERC20 datatoken.
You can access a data service if you send 1.0 datatokens to the Provider.
## Data Owner or Data Service Provider
Someone who has assets that they want to sell. An example is an almond distributor with 30 years of data about almond sales.
Someone who has data assets that they want to sell. An example is an almond distributor with 30 years of data about almond sales.
> Initially, most data owners or data service providers will also be the publishers of their own assets.
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> Initially, most publishers will also be the owners of the assets they publish.
## Consumer
## Data Consumer
Someone who wants assets. An example is a data scientist working at an economic think tank.
Someone who buys a asset. An example is a data scientist working at an economic think tank.
## Marketplace
A service where publishers can list what assets they have, and consumers can see what's available then buy it (or get it for free). Every marketplace has a database where they store metadata about the assets they know about (but not the assets themselves). An Ocean network can support many marketplaces.
A service where publishers can list what assets they have, and consumers can see what's available then buy it.
Metadata is information about the data asset. In Ocean, metadata is stored on-chain, but marketplaces may have a local cache for faster search.