--- description: Buy, mint, and sell all sorts of data on the Ocean Market --- # Guide to the Ocean Market

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### What is the [Ocean Market](https://market.oceanprotocol.com/)? 🛒 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? 💕 #### **You can:** * Buy access to unique data, algorithms, and compute jobs. 🛍️ * Tokenize & monetize your intellectual property through blockchain technology. 💪 #### **Learn to:** * [Publish an NFT](marketplace-publish-data-asset.md) * [Download NFT Assets](marketplace-download-data-asset.md) * [Host Your Assets](asset-hosting/) #### Getting Basic 💁‍♀️ **If you are new to web3** and blockchain technologies then we suggest you first get familiar with some Web3 basics: * [Wallet Basics](../discover/wallets/) 👛 * [Set Up MetaMask](../discover/wallets/metamask-setup.md) [Wallet ](../discover/wallets/metamask-setup.md)🦊 * [Manage Your OCEAN Tokens](../discover/wallets-and-ocean-tokens.md) 🪙