# Regulating the Marketplace

#### Simply it **regulates itself with a healthy competition.** 

Node Operators can set a fee up to 10% for their services.

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Contrary to other staking pools, Operators collect their fee according to the performance of their validators; encouraging them to be more profitable.
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Any pool can work with any Node Operator, w*ith minimal disturbance*. However, the pool controllers should consider some parameters, such as:

* Fee
* Validator Period
* Number of Total Validators
* Past Performance
* Country/Regulation

### "Minimal Disturbance"

#### There are some ground rules to protect the all parties from each other.

* There is a 3 day cooldown period when a pool maintenance fee is changed.
* There is a 3 day cooldown period when an operator fee is changed.
* There is a 3 day cooldown period when a validator period is changed.
* There is a 14 day isolation period for faulty or malicious Node Operators, called prison:

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[prison](https://docs.geode.fi/operator-marketplace/regulating-the-marketplace/prison)
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