docs/content/concepts/terminology.md

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Terminology	Terminology specific to Ocean Protocol.

Asset

A data set or data service.

Publisher

Someone who has assets that they want to sell (or give away freely). An example is an almond distributor with 30 years of data about almond sales.

Consumer

Someone who wants assets. An example is a data scientist working at an economic think tank.

Marketplace

A service where publishers can list what assets they have, and consumers can see what's available then buy it (or get it for free). The Ocean network supports many marketplaces.

Keeper

A computer running a blockchain client (i.e. a blockchain node) where the associated blockchain network is running the Ocean Protocol 💧 keeper-contracts (smart contracts).

Secret Store

Parity Secret Store: software for distributed key pair generation, distributed key storage, and threshold retrieval.