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| Learn how to get veOCEAN tokens to use the Data Farming dapp 🧑🌾🥕 |
Get veOCEAN Tokens
What is veOCEAN? 🌊
veOCEAN is a 'voting escrowed' token used in Ocean Protocol's Data Farming dapp to generate passive and active OCEAN token rewards. Data Farming is our dapp to incentivize the publishing and curation of high quality assets on the Ocean Market. Are you curious to learn more about Data Farming or you're a visual learner? Check out our video tutorial below!
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How to Get veOCEAN
Step 1 - Get OCEAN tokens
- Acquire $OCEAN via a decentralized exchange (DEX) such as Uniswap or a centralized exchange (CEX) such as Binance, Coinbase, etc.
Step 2 - Send to your self-custody wallet
- Send your OCEAN tokens to a self-custody wallet of yours that supports ERC-20 tokens, like Metamask for example.
Step 3 - Go to Ocean Protocol's Data Farming dapp
- Go to https://df.oceandao.org/
Step 4 - Connect Your Wallet + Lock your OCEAN for veOCEAN
- Click on the purple circles in our interactive demo to walk through the steps for locking your OCEAN tokens for veOCEAN tokens.
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In this step you will:
- Enter the amount of OCEAN tokens that you are going to lock up
- Select a Lock End Date indicating how many weeks you’re going to lock up your OCEAN tokens. (As the Lock End Date goes farther into the future, your Lock Multiplier increases).
- Click on the checkbox to agree to the disclaimer.
- Click the pink “Approve # OCEAN” button
- Accept the transaction in your wallet.
- Click the “Create Lock” button.
- Accept the transaction in your wallet.
Congratulations! You have now locked your OCEAN tokens for veOCEAN tokens.