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# Bribes

#### What Are Bribes?

Bribes are additional rewards offered by any user or project to incentivize votes toward a specific pool in the gauges system. They act as bonuses on top of the standard rewards.

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#### How It Works:

1. **Choose a Pool**: Select the liquidity pool to target.
2. **Choose a Token**: Any token can be used (not limited to pool tokens).
3. **Lock Bribe**: Deposit tokens into the bribe contract before the epoch.
4. **Distribute**: At the end of the vote, bribes are distributed to voters of that pool, proportionally to their voting power.

Bribes align external interests with the protocol’s incentive layer, allowing:

* Projects to bootstrap liquidity.
* veVOLT holders to earn more.
* Governance to be market-responsive and dynamic.

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