docs_tfgrid4/docs/decentralization/farming_pools.md

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5	Farming pools help manage the grid.

Farming Pools

A farming pool has certain tasks and responsibility. In exchange of their work, farming pools receive rewards.

Tasks and Responsibility

A Farming pool takes care of the following:

• Define service level agreements, terms and conditions, customer onboarding, etc.
• Support (e.g. to replace broken nodes)
• Management infrastructure (e.g. monitoring, billing, etc.)
• Sales of The Nodes
• Work with node vendors
• Communication with the farmers of the farming pool
• Price definitions (e.g. to define sales prices of the nodes)