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title: Swap and/or Stake Tokens
description: Tutorial to swap datatoken, and stake Ocean tokens
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## Swap OCEAN tokens against datatokens

### Finding an asset

Search for the desired asset published on the <a href="https://v4.market.oceanprotocol.com/" target="_blank">Ocean Marketplace</a>.

### Step 1 - Associated risks

Please read carefully the risks associated with this operation.

![swap part-1](images/marketplace/Swap-1.png 'Associated risks')

### Step 2 - Trade amount

Enter the amount of OCEAN tokens to swap. The datatokens amount to receive is displayed with the swap fees information. The reverse operation(swap datatokens to OCEAN tokens) is also available on the trade tab.

![swap part-2](images/marketplace/Swap-2.png 'Amount of OCEANs to swap')

### Step 3 - Transaction: Access to OCEAN token(s)

![swap part-3](images/marketplace/Swap-3.png 'Transaction: Approve spend limit')

### Step 4 - Click swap

![swap part-4](images/marketplace/Swap-4.png 'Click swap tokens')

### Step 5 - Transaction: Swap tokens

![swap part-5](images/marketplace/Swap-5.png 'Transaction: Swap tokens')

### Swap transaction

![swap part-6](images/marketplace/Swap-6.png 'View transaction')

Click <a href="https://rinkeby.etherscan.io//tx/0x2f98479adafa93eedbdff8a90a41d760a42290c961dd6aa2b9e09170665adc23" target="_blank">here</a> to view a sample transaction on the Rinkeby test network.

## Staking (Adding Liquidity)

Search for the desired asset published on the <a href="https://v4.market.oceanprotocol.com/" target="_blank">Ocean Marketplace</a>.

### Step 1 - Select pool tab

After finding the dataset, select **`POOL`** tab and click on **`ADD LIQUIDITY`**

![staking part-1](images/marketplace/Staking-1.png 'POOL tab')

### Step 2 - Associated risks

Please read carefully the risks associated with this operation.

![staking part-2](images/marketplace/Staking-2.png 'Associated risks')

### Step 3 - Stake amount

Enter the amount of OCEAN tokens you want to stake. The expected amount of pool shares and percentages for the provided amount will be displayed.

![staking part-3](images/marketplace/Staking-3.png 'Stake amount')

### Step 4 - Transaction: Access to OCEAN tokens

![staking part-4](images/marketplace/Staking-4.png 'Transaction: Approve spend limit')

### Step 5 - Click supply

![staking part-5](images/marketplace/Staking-5.png 'SUPPLY liquidity')

### Step 6 - Transaction: Add liquidty

![staking part-6](images/marketplace/Staking-6.png 'Transaction: Add liquidity')

### Stake transaction

![staking part-7](images/marketplace/Staking-7.png 'View transaction')

Click <a href="https://rinkeby.etherscan.io//tx/0x719b8627e5deb51af21184db7c6747bf5141782ba3e8fe5358f5a15ba67b594b" target="_blank">here</a> to view a sample transaction on the Rinkeby test network.