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title: Fees
description: The Ocean Protocol defines various fees for creating a sustainability loop.
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## Path to sustainability

Ocean Protocol aims to be a community-driven project. Through OceanDAO, the project aims at achieving decentralized governance and sustainability loop. For the project to grow and improve, the participants need to be rewarded for their contributions. The Ocean Protocol's smart contracts include a fee mechanism to maintain the sustainability loop.

### Community fee

### Market fee

## Further reading

- [The Web3 Sustainability Loop](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-web3-sustainability-loop-b2a4097a36e)