# Incentivizing node runners for Product Consensus & Clawbacks within Grant Contracts?

**URL:** https://forum.algorand.co/t/incentivizing-node-runners-for-product-consensus-clawbacks-within-grant-contracts/9155
**Category:** General
**Tags:** community, mainnet, smart-contracts, developer
**Created:** [March 18, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/incentivizing-node-runners-for-product-consensus-clawbacks-within-grant-contracts/9155 "2023-03-18T19:33:57Z")
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### Author: ![ALGOnumberone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@ALGOnumberone](https://forum.algorand.co/u/ALGOnumberone)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/incentivizing-node-runners-for-product-consensus-clawbacks-within-grant-contracts/9155/1 "2023-03-18T19:33:57Z")

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Forgive my ignorance on the current structure of node governance - do the node runners who are dedicating the node for a specific product’s platform ops, not just participating in the general consensus, get paid for doing so? Any sort of incentives by the Foundation/Inc themselves? Where the vested validators sign a smart contract which locks the funding and releases in periods by the signed agreement to make sure they get compensated by fulfilling and complete their duties to the end. How about a clawback feature within the grants Foundation pulls out of treasury to make sure there is realized returns to the ecosystem, as its purpose?

Are there any technical roadblocks Algorand running into to prevent this from happening?

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