Incentive Parameter Status

How do external incentives and bribes work?

External incentives, also called bribes in older explanatory text, are tokens attached to an active gauge to attract votes. Their minimum amount, supported tokens, distribution formula, and claim contract are not published as final parameters; verify the deployed incentive contract before relying on a reward.

What is the current status of emission parameters?

The mechanism is documented, but the final weekly amount, decay rate, allocation splits, gauge-cap default, and current APR are not published as stable live parameters. Treat examples as illustrative until the deployed minter and current epoch data confirm them.

This page separates documented mechanism design from deployed economic parameters.

Parameter	Documented state	Source of truth
Swap-fee recipient	Design routes fees to veORVX voters, not LPs	Deployed fee distributor and verified contract events
oORVX emission amount	Not finalized in documentation	Deployed minter and current epoch data
Emission decay	Design describes decay; exact rate is not final	Deployed minter configuration
Gauge cap multiplier	Governance-configurable design; default not published	Deployed gauge configuration
External incentive minimum	Not published	Deployed incentive contract, if enabled
Treasury allocation	Design examples are illustrative	Deployed treasury and governance transactions
Voter APR	A UI estimate, not a promise	Current gauge data and executed epoch

Answering reward questions safely

The documentation can explain who is intended to receive a reward and why. It cannot provide a guaranteed APR or final emission amount unless the live contract or an official current-data page provides it. Ask for the pool, epoch, token, and current on-chain state before calculating a reward.

Terms

“External incentive” is the preferred current term. “Bribe” may appear in older or explanatory text, but it refers to an incentive attached to a gauge to attract votes.