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### <span class="green">**The Medium of Exchange**</span>

<h1 class="leading-none font-semibold"> All Transactions Use One Token: <span class="blue">TFT</span></h1>

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Whether you are hosting the cloud or deploying solutions on the Grid, you will earn or use TFT. Peer-to-peer transactions, no intermediaries.

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<button class="green">[Get A Node](https://marketplace.3node.global/?sl=en)</button> 
<button class="blue_b">[How To Buy TFT](https://manual.grid.tf/documentation/threefold_token/buy_sell_tft/buy_sell_tft.html)</button>

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### **<span class="green_text font-semibold">EARN TFT**</span>

## **The Farming Process**

#### <span class="blue">Host The Cloud </span> And Become A ThreeFold Farmer.

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**Set up and connect a node to the ThreeFold Grid.**

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**Your node and its capacity is verified by the ThreeFold blockchain.**

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**Earn TFT for the uptime and capacity you provide to the Grid.**

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<button class="green">[Dive Deeper](https://manual.grid.tf/documentation/farmers/farmers.html)</button> 

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### **<span class="green_text font-semibold">USE TFT**</span>

## **The Utilization Process**

#### <span class="blue">Access  </span> ThreeFold Grid Capacity and <span class="blue">Build</span>

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**Users pay utilization fees (using TFT) to use compute, storage and network capacity.**

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**They can then use this capacity to build or deploy on top of the ThreeFold Grid.**


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<button class="green">[Dive Deeper](https://manual.grid.tf/knowledge_base/cloud/cloud_toc.html)</button> 

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