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# Understanding Bribes

Plenty natively supports gauge bribes and automatically adjusts them according to weekly `vePLY` NFT votes. In addition to traditional bribes, which allows a protocol to expand their on-chain liquidity by bribing vote escrow holders to vote in a specific way (e.g. Convex bribing `veCRV` token holders). Plenty allows any user to attach bribes onto a gauge.

The concept of bribes was made popular by Convex which came to control a large share of Curve voting power. As users kept chasing high `CRV` rewards, protocols realized they could grow their protocol and on-chain liquidity by bribing `veCRV` holders to vote for their pool.

On Plenty, it’s possible for anyone to attach bribes onto a gauge and those who vote for it are then able to claim them.

## Who can bribe?

Anyone can issue a bribe to attract voters to a specified gauge in a specified epoch. However, bribers would most likely be:

* Protocol owners who are aiming to bootstrap liquidity for their protocol's token.
* Liquidity providers who have high stakes in a certain pool.

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Bribes must be given in **fungible tokens**. A bribe given in NFTs won't be divisible amongst the voters. Moreover, really small bribes especially in low-precision tokens should be avoided.
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![Adding a bribe to a gauge will attract more votes, which will result in a higher gauge weight, which will attract liquidity.](/files/AkdKNWvyR0BtXGNx4hSP)