diff --git a/apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/aux/erc20_demurrage_token/__init__.py b/apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/aux/erc20_demurrage_token/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0ce48bfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/aux/erc20_demurrage_token/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# standard imports
+import celery
+
+# external imports
+from erc20_demurrage_token.demurrage import DemurrageCalculator
+
+celery_app = celery.current_app
+
+
+class DemurrageCalculationTask(celery.Task):
+
+    demurrage_token_rates = {}
+
+
+@celery_app.task(bind=True, base=DemurrageCalculationTask)
+def get_adjusted_balance(self, token_symbol, amount, timestamp):
+    c = self.demurrage_token_rates[token_symbol]
+    return c.amount_since(amount, timestamp)
diff --git a/apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/runnable/daemons/tasker.py b/apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/runnable/daemons/tasker.py
index 874c378b..f38bf484 100644
--- a/apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/runnable/daemons/tasker.py
+++ b/apps/cic-eth/cic_eth/runnable/daemons/tasker.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import tempfile
 import re
 import urllib
 import websocket
+import stat
+import importlib
 
 # external imports
 import celery
@@ -68,6 +70,8 @@ from cic_eth.task import BaseTask
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARNING)
 logg = logging.getLogger()
 
+script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+
 config_dir = os.path.join('/usr/local/etc/cic-eth')
 
 argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -79,6 +83,8 @@ argparser.add_argument('--default-token-symbol', dest='default_token_symbol', ty
 argparser.add_argument('--trace-queue-status', default=None, dest='trace_queue_status', action='store_true', help='set to perist all queue entry status changes to storage')
 argparser.add_argument('-i', '--chain-spec', dest='i', type=str, help='chain spec')
 argparser.add_argument('--env-prefix', default=os.environ.get('CONFINI_ENV_PREFIX'), dest='env_prefix', type=str, help='environment prefix for variables to overwrite configuration')
+argparser.add_argument('--aux-all', action='store_true', help='include tasks from all submodules from the aux module path')
+argparser.add_argument('--aux', action='append', type=str, default=[], help='add single submodule from the aux module path')
 argparser.add_argument('-v', action='store_true', help='be verbose')
 argparser.add_argument('-vv', action='store_true', help='be more verbose')
 args = argparser.parse_args()
@@ -109,6 +115,45 @@ if len(health_modules) != 0:
     health_modules = health_modules.split(',')
 logg.debug('health mods {}'.format(health_modules))
 
+
+# detect aux 
+aux_dir = os.path.join(script_dir, '..', '..', 'aux')
+aux = []
+if args.aux_all:
+    if len(args.aux) > 0:
+        logg.warning('--aux-all is set so --aux will have no effect')
+    for v in os.listdir(aux_dir):
+        if v[:1] == '.':
+            logg.debug('dotfile, skip {}'.format(v))
+            continue
+        aux_mod_path = os.path.join(aux_dir, v)
+        st = os.stat(aux_mod_path)
+        if not stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode):
+            logg.debug('not a dir, skip {}'.format(v))
+            continue
+        aux_mod_file = os.path.join(aux_dir, v,'__init__.py')
+        try:
+            st = os.stat(aux_mod_file)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            logg.debug('__init__.py not found, skip {}'.format(v))
+            continue 
+        aux.append(v)
+
+elif len(args.aux) > 0:
+    for v in args.aux:
+        aux_mod_file = os.path.join(aux_dir, v,'__init__.py')
+        try:
+            st = os.stat(aux_mod_file)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            logg.critical('cannot find explicity requested aux module {}'.format(v))
+            sys.exit(1)
+        logg.info('aux module {} found in path'.format(v))
+        aux.append(v)
+
+for v in aux:
+    importlib.import_module('cic_eth.aux.' + v)
+
+
 # connect to database
 dsn = dsn_from_config(config)
 SessionBase.connect(dsn, pool_size=int(config.get('DATABASE_POOL_SIZE')), debug=config.true('DATABASE_DEBUG'))