# Delegating your vote

### Context

The Voting Market Maker concept is an essential part of the bribe economy as it enables the bootstrapping of gauge weight.

Market making in DeFi has been split into the capital coordination layer by AMMs, and the liquidity provisioning layer by individuals or professionals. The DeFi market-makers arbitrage the volume-to-depth opportunities between pools.

Due to the creation of liquid lockers, it is now possible to participate in the governance layer while retaining the ability to transfer and liquidate your position. This route was initiated by the “vlToken” model from Convex and created two new market-making opportunities. The first being delegated inflation management.

**Pros**

* Help mitigate the risk that individual players take control over base layers (Balancer or Curve) governances.
* Unifying rewards reduce gas cost, gives a better sight on dilution and vote efficiency 
* Delegate the quantitative work to algo + experienced team > arbitrage and enhanced yield
* Better coordination among voter / governance layers / multi-chain participants (e.g Tetu / Aura)

### Paladin's voter's historical performance 

To simplify the work of earning and claiming voter yield, Paladin has set up a delegation address that optimizes for bribes. This is great for voters who want to passively earn their rewards. **If you’re a vlCVX, vlAURA, or vlLIQ voter you’ll be able to delegate to Paladin and have your voting optimized across all incentives platforms.** 

As of May 2024, Paladin’s Autovoter has gathered : **1.2M vlCVX; 5.1M vlAURA and 1.8M vlLIQ**.

Since the start of 2024, the Paladin delegator has outperformed all its alternatives. Example with the vlAURA performance compared to HiddenHand 

![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/jBIl4BclIkBQXqCtYtBxtcuH85uaEfEkVL9c1gpYjXI7eKMPK0i4czNkS8HuWVi6TGCyiuguGAGSXM1H0C-IRoamG8SRelK2mC0UVWPTCsiNJuh0_HCYwz6z7tCyMQJzfXS2L12cOL5lGX2UPjuuAwE)<br>

So far (Q1 of 2023), the Paladin delegator has outperformed all its alternatives. For more details check out our [thread on the topic](https://twitter.com/Paladin_vote/status/1603769662675865602?s=20\&t=ywJTqsXUe_m52YAm9RzFM).

<figure><img src="/files/tboKJE7hR5t6TzbCjYhJ" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## How to delegate to Paladin

### vlCVX holders:

#### 1. Head to [Snapshot](https://snapshot.org/#/)

#### 2. Click delegate in your wallet menu

<figure><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YEiTdJHhnzgnekTzHrZzPwfmOKUuBIqBdfYcdK4HK751FAsWlaRQLiInc6OoTeV1-4UNrO-9dw9bD6VQ53Z-oIqSs109Hr81VYu66KWnyVI77mytZSZuYgrKtI0_F1sLWqucmsMsH0ZcGpn9jQ6tg-QxCwPrkh0z515TYs7l9fLhhnWhTYerpASqR7bHWQ" alt=""><figcaption><p>Step 2</p></figcaption></figure>

#### 3. Delegate to paladin-voter.eth, and specify the delegation to the Convex space

* Confirm delegation to paladin-voter.eth
* Specify the Convex snapshot space: [cvx.eth](https://snapshot.org/#/delegate/cvx.eth)

<figure><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/J5fFyUJKLA4zqF1wG7AQENcX89VK7SdwFTL9P81_uR0Hy03LTmG_UoA72A72MANw982UQ1htn0KeHAkDDlZnSxsl5swcxHPY4PvRHknXlO_KqHgnVlaODTlvbhSEssJZTrUU9MBZoHU6ZOyTYwYyXkgDIF8nr2h-bYfPVTaMKsZlPJEiXBEcKeGph3ht_w" alt=""><figcaption><p>Step 3</p></figcaption></figure>

#### 4. Confirm the transaction and you're done

### vlAURA & vlLIQ holders:

This delegation is on-chain so we’ve made it easier for holders to delegate.

1. Head to the Auto voter dapp
2. Delegate your vote balance.

<figure><img src="/files/KUhQhRSVh85uII1IMXdO" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>Delegate your vote for automated earnings</p></figcaption></figure>

### Addresses

Paladin-voter.eth (deployed on Ethereum & Polygon)

0x68378fCB3A27D5613aFCfddB590d35a6e751972C

<br>


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.paladin.vote/quest-v2/delegating-your-vote.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.