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description: Get veOCEAN tokens to use the Data Farming dApp and make yield! 🧑‍🌾🥕
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# Get Started Data Farming
### What is Data Farming?
[Data Farming](https://df.oceandao.org) is our dApp that generates yield for participants that curate and publish valuable assets in the Ocean ecosystem.
<figure><img src="../.gitbook/assets/gif/super-mario-coins.gif" alt="" width="250"><figcaption><p>Get veOCEAN tokens</p></figcaption></figure>
### **What is veOCEAN and why do you want it? 🌊**
In order to **gain yield Data Farming**, you will need to lock your OCEAN tokens first! When you lock your OCEAN tokens, you get **veOCEAN tokens** and **weekly passive OCEAN rewards** in return. veOCEAN is a token used in Ocean Protocol's Data Farming dApp to **generate even more yield,** called **Volume DF rewards**, for allocating your veOCEAN tokens to your favorite assets and get a portion of their sales!
### **Don't have OCEAN tokens yet? Get those first!**
#### **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.
### Where the rubber meets the road 🚗💨
Not much of a reader? Watch and learn, friend
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Watch and learn, friend
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#### **Step 3 - Go to Ocean Protocol's Data Farming dApp**
- Go to [https://df.oceandao.org/](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 youre 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 and are generating passive yield automatically. You can [claim your passive OCEAN rewards](claim-ocean-rewards.md) every Thursday - note that your first time claiming rewards will require at least one week, but not more than 2 weeks of wait!