“Clockwork answers a whole bunch of questions that have held back app development from moving up the stack—How should nodes track and delegate scheduled tasks? What if a malicious node attempts to execute a task ahead of schedule? Is the scheduler fault-tolerant if some nodes go down? None of these questions had answers before Clockwork.”

https://www.theblock.co/post/165953/solana-automation-network-clockwork-raises-4-million