"Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem of data economies and related services. Using Ocean software components, users can launch their own data marketplaces on Ocean, connecting to the decentralized Ocean data sharing network. Through these data marketplaces, data providers can monetize their data while protecting privacy and control, while data consumers can access data that was previously unavailable to them - private data. Ocean Tokens (OCEAN) are currently used in the Ocean Network to pay for data services (downloading datasets, using compute to data). In the future, OCEAN tokens can also be used for referral rewards, pledges, as governance tokens for OceanDAO, etc."