--- tags: alchemists --- Bribing did exist between [Votium](https://votium.app/) and [Convex](https://www.convexfinance.com/) ### [Convex](https://www.convexfinance.com/) Rewarding CRV holders ### [Aura Finance](https://aura.finance/) run by Maki & stargate - Convex of Balancer - Boost staking power - 1 aura = 30 BAL tokens **Creates a marketplace for people to give and receive bribes** to deepen liquidity - Basically bribing BAL holders - May be a more Votium esque platform ### How to take & give out bribes (veBAL system) - Hidden hand (redacted cartel) - Once whitelisted - spin up a pool that allows Balancer emissions to be deposited through bribes into that pool - Chase the APY - Delegation works throught the Balancer.Finance interface - No anticipated ROI - 2nd round will be figting for Balancer emissions for APY - Arbitrum Boosting emissions will be joining at the end of May. ### - users come and vote for your pool - can be added to a specific cohort - snapshot is taken - users receive emissions on a pro-rata basis (for their votes) - The bribor adds bribe to gauge - person receiving the bribe can vote on the pool - or the bribee can vote lock tokens and - 495k voting power - Vote escrow balancer holder can come and access the bribe through the hidden hand - Use a Votium esque platform (CVX is winning rn) **Wallet is connected to hidden hand** - hidden hand shows that wallet address is eligible so the with veBAL ### Question is - **Options** #1 Run our own Bribe campaign (anyone) #2 Use a protocolized platform that can save us all of the time and energy for putting **tl;dr** How users can interact with the platform and collect their bribes DAOhaus uses gnosis safe & adds a bribe to our gauge Users go and vote on veBAL platform, once the user picks a bribe, they can claim at the end **They will maintain logs on the voters who participate in our Gauge** - Post a bribe, users can go and claim the bribe after the Epoch has ended - Anyone who votes on a gauge will be eligible to claim the bribe **Hypothetical** - Random veBAL user who votes on a bunch of stuff for months - Been voting accidently - bribes are fairly distributed - Delegation won't be live for a little bit