docs/data-farming/README.md

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What is Data Farming?

Data Farming (DF) is Ocean's incentive program. It rewards OCEAN to participants who lock OCEAN into veOCEAN, curate data, and make predictions -- all in the name of driving data consume volume (DCV). DF is a bit like DeFi liquidity mining, but tuned for DCV.

DF Webapp

The DF webapp is where users perform most DF actions.

Reward Schedule

There is 150,000 OCEAN / week available for DF rewards. In time, this will increase to over 1.1M OCEAN / week.

Here is the Reward Schedule.

DF Streams & Budgets

DF is organized into streams & substreams, each with its own weekly budget and user activities.

DF's main streams are Passive DF and Active DF. The former allows for passive earning potential, and the latter requires more engagement. Each has 50% of the DF budget.

Here are all streams & substreams. The links lead to dedicated pages.

1. Passive DF. 75,000 OCEAN per week. Lock OCEAN for veOCEAN; rewards are pro-rata to veOCEAN holdings.
2. Active DF. 75,000 OCEAN per week. It has these substreams:
   1. Volume DF. Allocate veOCEAN towards data assets with high DCV, ie "curate data". Rewards are a function of DCV and veOCEAN stake.
   2. Challenge DF. Predict future ETH price, one-time weekly. Rewards are a function of accuracy. Runs from DF48 — DF65.
   3. Predictoor DF. Run prediction bots to earn continuously. Starts on DF62.

All streams and substreams repeat weekly that start on Thursdays 00:00 at UTC and end on Wed at 23:59 UTC.

Claiming rewards You can claim rewards** each Thursday, or wait and claim many weeks' of rewards at once.

Yields Typical reward APYs are 5–20%, but may be as high as 45% and as low as 1%. APYs will vary week to week. APY depends on total OCEAN staked, duration of OCEAN lock, DCV, what DF streams you participate in, and other factors.

Active DF's substreams can -- and do -- evolve over time. It's chronicled here.

Further resources

• The DF FAQ answers more questions.
• Main DF github repos: df-py (backend), df-web (frontend)
• The Ocean Data Farming Series blog has a chronological account of all Data Farming activities since its inception. It links to related blog posts.