# Discussion on Query Fee Incentives (Curator/Indexer)

**URL:** <https://forum.thegraph.com/t/discussion-on-query-fee-incentives-curator-indexer/2475>\
**Category:** Protocol Economics\
**Created:** [August 30, 2021, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/discussion-on-query-fee-incentives-curator-indexer/2475 "2021-08-30T10:20:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![adamfuller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@adamfuller](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/adamfuller)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/discussion-on-query-fee-incentives-curator-indexer/2475/10 "2021-09-06T14:31:31Z")

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This is an interesting thread: by subsidising query rewards, this encourages the core action in the protocol (users querying indexed subgraphs). It incentivises those who have signalled on a subgraph to keep signalling (rather than the bulk of their reward being the sale value back into the bonding curve), and it encourages indexers to seek query rewards, as well as indexing rewards (which are currently the bulk of an indexer’s return). Would be keen to hear @Brandon and @ari’s take.

@KonstantinRM I think your suggestion around free queries up until a point is a separate (also interesting) angle - discussed in some detail in [this thread](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/why-is-there-billing-from-the-first-query/2233).

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