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## Be the **Internet**

By connecting a modern computer at your home or office to the ThreeFold Grid, you can provide Internet capacity to communities and builders, and be rewarded for doing this. Support a decentralized future. Take part in shaping a new Internet era governed by all of us.

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<button>[Buy](https://marketplace.3node.global/index.php)</button>
<button>[Build](https://manual.grid.tf/farmers/3node_building/3node_building.html)</button>
<button>[Learn](https://manual.grid.tf/intro/grid3_howitworks.html)</button>
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## Farm

### A new way of growing the Internet

3Nodes provide Internet capacity for millions of people using ThreeFold’s Planetary Network, and you earn TFT for doing so. And because of a unique operating system, called Zero-OS, once turned on your 3Node runs by itself.

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*See how things are changing in [our next phase](/next).*

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### **Host a Node**

All you need to get started is a modern computer, electricity and network. Once booted with the operating system, it becomes a Threefold Node.

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### **Get Verified**

The capacity of the node gets verified and registered in the ThreeFold Blockchain, securing access to a decentralized internet for users and communities.

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### **Earn Monthly**

After your node is set up and verified, you’ll be rewarded for the compute, storage and bandwidth you provide to the ThreeFold Grid.

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## Join **a World of Farmers**

### We are growing fast

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![Image](farm_map.png#mx-auto)

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