# About Ocean DAO

The Ocean DAO is a monthly round grants program that provide grants to programs that aim to achieve and drive the values of $Ocean through strong fundamentals and helping builders to build on top of Ocean. 

OceanDAO offers community grants curated by OCEAN holders, towards growing the Ocean ecosystem. Funding is available for building software that uses Ocean, unleashing data, outreach, and improving OceanDAO itself.

OceanDAO is a key component in the [growth and sustainability](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-web3-sustainability-loop-b2a4097a36e) of the Ocean Ecosystem.

**Refer:** [**https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-web3-sustainability-loop-b2a4097a36e**](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-web3-sustainability-loop-b2a4097a36e)

The long term mission and vision is to provide sufficient funds to teams that aim to drive the WEb3 sustainability loop and establishing trust between Ocean teams and OceanDAO.

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Community Program
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![OceanDAO process](https://3172560882-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F3tYlcCGUz5bVFDwvqEuk%2Fuploads%2FGnF3PrGvilXzxl1jKCY4%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=dad6ffab-467d-42e3-8696-26f91e524c97)

**For more Information related to OceanDAO, refer the following link**

<https://github.com/oceanprotocol/oceandao/wiki>&#x20;

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Navigating through Ocean
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