Voting Fees and Incentives

Voting rewards come from two springs: pool trading fees and externally deposited incentives. Both flow to the voters who supported the pool during the applicable epoch.

Trading-fee rewards

Where pool configuration routes fees to voters, fees generated during one period become claimable according to the reward contract's epoch accounting. Rewards are normally paid in the assets generated by the pool, not in $RAPH.

Voting incentives

Anyone can deposit approved incentive tokens for a pool with a live gauge; How to offer an incentive walks through it. Only voters who support that pool during the applicable epoch share those incentives. This is how a protocol courts liquidity: by paying the patrons who vote its market deeper.

A simplified share is:

voter reward = distributable pool reward × voter pool weight ÷ total pool vote weight

Actual claimable values can differ because of rounding, timing, token behaviour and contract-specific rules.

How to offer an incentive

Any wallet can reward a pool's voters from the Vote page. No veRAPH is needed.

1. Connect a wallet on Robinhood Chain.
2. Under The ballot, choose Offer an incentive, or + Add in a pool's Incentives column to start with that pool selected.
3. Pick the pool. Where a pair has both a v2 and a v3 pool, the label names the version; check it, because each pool pays only its own voters.
4. Pick the token and the amount. The token must be whitelisted by the Voter or already paid out by that pool; the interface warns you before you sign if it is not. Offer ETH as WETH.
5. Confirm. The first deposit of a token into a pool asks for an approval, then the deposit itself.

Before you deposit:

• The incentive belongs to the epoch in progress when the transaction lands, and is shared by that epoch's voters for the pool once the epoch closes.
• Deposit early. Voters can only follow an incentive they can see, and the ballot closes an hour before the epoch ends.
• Deposits are final; an incentive cannot be withdrawn.
• If no one votes for the pool that epoch, the incentive stays unclaimed in the reward contract.
• The pool's Incentives column updates once the indexer records the deposit, usually within a minute.

Timeline

The reward passage

Two springs. One claim.

Trading fees and deposited incentives enter the same epoch passage, then reach the voters who supported the pool.

Trading fees

Pool assets, where configuration routes them to voters.

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Voting incentives

Approved tokens deposited for the selected pool and epoch.

1. IFund the epoch

   Fees accrue and approved incentives enter the selected pool and epoch.

2. IICast the vote

   veRAPH voting power supports an eligible pool.

3. IIIClose the epoch

   The applicable voting period reaches its boundary.

4. IVFinalize rewards

   Reward contracts complete the epoch accounting.

5. VClaim

   Eligible voters claim their attributable fees and incentives.

Timing remains material. A late or misdirected incentive may miss the epoch it was intended to influence.

An incentive deposited too late, or for the wrong epoch, may not affect the intended vote. Depositors should mind the operational window as carefully as voters do.

Risks

• incentive tokens may be illiquid or malicious;
• displayed fiat values can be inaccurate;
• claiming many small tokens may cost more gas than they are worth;
• fee and incentive estimates change as more votes arrive;
• token approvals may be required when depositing incentives.