Guides
Incentives and rewards
Distinguish gauge emissions, voting rewards and position fees before claiming.
Reward types
| Reward | Who participates | Claim path |
|---|---|---|
| ARCHERY emissions | Eligible staked LPs | Gauge / Voter.claimRewards |
| Voting fees | Eligible veArchery voters | Voter.claimFees |
| External incentives | Eligible veArchery voters | Voter.claimBribes |
| Position fees | Eligible V3 NFT positions | Position Manager / gauge collection |
| Lock rebase | Eligible locks | Rewards Distributor; increases lock value |
Fund an incentive
- Verify the pool's gauge and its fee or bribe voting reward address.
- Select a supported reward token and review the target reward period.
- Approve the reward contract and submit the corresponding reward notification.
- Confirm the deposit in the Arc explorer; it is an incentive deposit, not a refundable trade quote.
Before TGE
An incentive deposited before any lock has voted cannot be claimed by anyone for that epoch, so the app does not offer incentive deposits on Arc Mainnet until voting opens at TGE.
Meanwhile the unstaked-fee share of every V3 pool accumulates in the pool. The first distribution after emissions begin registers it as fee rewards for that epoch's voters.
Claim into USDC
A call helper can batch gauge claims, fee claims and bribe claims, then swap quoted liquid reward amounts into USDC. Existing USDC rewards need no conversion. Tokens without an executable route remain unconverted, and ve lock rebases are not part of the liquid conversion flow.
Simulate before/after balances to quote only the rewards being claimed. Set a minimum USDC output for every swap. A changing claimable amount can leave a remainder after the quoted amount is swapped.