# Ideas for Incentivizing Relays

**URL:** https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ideas-for-incentivizing-relays/586
**Category:** Relays
**Created:** [October 18, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ideas-for-incentivizing-relays/586 "2022-10-18T04:02:08Z")
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### Author: ![dmarz](https://collective.flashbots.net/user_avatar/collective.flashbots.net/dmarz/32/494_2.png) [@dmarz](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/dmarz)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ideas-for-incentivizing-relays/586/4 "2022-10-19T14:24:45Z")

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So based on that set up its around $20k USD per year, which wouldn’t include networking costs or a staging environment. On top of that operators would most likely expect some type of compensation so 2-3x’ing the cost to $40-60k doesn’t seem outlandish.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 7.14.53 AM](https://collective.flashbots.net/uploads/default/original/1X/17c066ae920f044d57460362f7637848169665b9.png)

I’m not too up to date on DAO treasury grant sizes, but this certainly seems feasible!

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