Votium

• Name: Votium
• URL: https://votium.app/
• Category: governance-incentive marketplace / vote-bribing infrastructure / delegation-and-distribution layer
• Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
• Summary: Votium is market infrastructure for rented governance influence. Buyers post incentives around Curve and Convex vote windows, while veCRV and especially vlCVX holders either vote directly or delegate once and collect the resulting flow. The note is worth keeping because Votium makes the Curve-wars second layer obvious: vote direction stops looking like governance rhetoric and starts looking like a priced distribution business.
• What it does:
  • Lists active and upcoming incentive windows tied to Convex gauge-vote rounds and Curve gauge-vote weeks
  • Lets buyers choose a target pool, payment token, amount, and in some cases duration or payout caps when posting incentives
  • Lets vlCVX holders delegate once to Votium so the platform can vote for them on future rounds, while still preserving the option to override manually on a given proposal
  • Confirms the amount of vlCVX or veCRV vote power cast on a buyer’s behalf and distributes incentives back to voters via airdrop/claim flow
  • Supports both Convex-side bribing markets and direct Curve gauge-vote incentives, which makes it a useful window into how second-order governance markets form around base protocols
• Key claims:
  • The official docs explicitly describe Votium as the official information source for the platform and split the system into buyer and voter flows, signaling a two-sided market rather than a one-sided rewards app
  • Votium’s “How It Works” docs say buyers can post or increase incentives during live Convex rounds, Votium votes on behalf of delegators, and incentives are distributed among voters afterward via airdrop
  • The quickstart and voter manual say vlCVX holders can either delegate once to Votium or vote manually on Convex Snapshot proposals, and that delegation only needs to be set once for future rounds
  • The vlCVX FAQ says Votium rounds track Convex gauge-vote windows bi-weekly from Thursday 00:00 UTC to Tuesday 00:00 UTC, and that Votium aims to vote optimally for delegators; it also states 5% of delegation power is used for the cvxCRV pool
  • The buyer manual shows incentives can span multiple rounds, use optional max-payout caps, be increased later, and roll forward when unconsumed or when a newly approved gauge cannot yet receive votes
  • For veCRV incentives, the buyer manual states Convex’s veCRV votes are excluded “to avoid double dipping,” which is a notable sign that Votium is operating inside an already layered governance market rather than a clean one-token-one-vote environment
• Whitepaper: No canonical standalone Votium whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest primary materials were the official docs, especially the “How It Works,” quickstart, voter manual, buyer manual, and vlCVX FAQ pages; see ../whitepapers/votium-primary-sources-2026-05-07.md.
• Sources:
  • https://votium.app/
  • https://docs.votium.app/
  • https://docs.votium.app/general-information/the-auction
  • https://docs.votium.app/explainers/quickstart-guide
  • https://docs.votium.app/explainers/voter-manual
  • https://docs.votium.app/explainers/briber-manual
  • https://docs.votium.app/faq/vlcvx-faq

Internal linkages

• Keep this note on the strongest read-throughs: curve, convex-finance, and hidden-hand.

• Useful cut: Votium is mainly the Convex-side price-and-distribution layer, not a general governance venue.

• Last reviewed: 2026-05-28 UTC