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Vote for Gauges

How to vote, cooldowns, and what your vote actually does.

Steps​

  1. Hold veYB (see Lock YB for veYB).
  2. yieldbasis.com → Governance → Gauges.
  3. Allocate your voting power across gauges. Total ≤ 100%.
  4. Confirm. Your vote takes effect immediately — gauge weights update in real time, no epoch delay.

Cooldown​

Per-gauge re-vote cooldown: 10 days (864,000 seconds). You can adjust across different gauges freely within that window; you cannot re-vote the same gauge more frequently. Purpose: prevents rapid flip-flopping that would destabilise emission routing and blunts vote-buying games around single epochs.

What the vote does​

  • Determines each gauge's raw share of weekly YB emission. Raw weight sums over all voters' user_weights × veYB_balance_at_vote_time.
  • Feeds into the adoption-adjusted weight via adjusted_weight = raw_weight × sqrt(staked / lt_total_supply). A gauge with low staking participation gets less than its vote share would suggest. This is an adoption incentive, not an IL hedge — see Gauges & Emissions.
  • Carries over week-to-week until changed. You do not need to re-vote every epoch to maintain your position.

Your vote's weight is proportional to your current veYB balance. Infinite locks (no decay) have steady weight; term locks weight less as their end approaches.