# Monetize

**The game´s economy is real. It has its own monetary system and laws that the players themselves influence**. Players use Galactic Quadrants (GQ), the governance token, enabling them to interact with all major cryptocurrencies. 

The way to acquire tokens is diverse, ranging from **trading items, crafting (or creating) NFTs, selling them, or completing in-game objectives and quests.** 

Outer Ring has several methods of economic interaction: 

* **The Marketplace**, where you can directly acquire GQs, or NFTs from the game by purchasing them with other cryptocurrencies through a digital wallet. 
* **In-game shops**. Run by non-player characters who trade with players.
* Direct **in-game purchases**.  
* **Diverse in-game DEX in different zones** or planets, with liquidity pools filled with in-game resources, with the possibility of purchase, provide liquidity and subsequent arbitrage by the players.
* **Player-created shop**s, where players can trade items they have created themselves, directly interacting with other players.

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