Bribes

ELI5: Coil shares part of trading fees in USDC with voters who backed the fee gauge — pay-to-steer without touching anyone's collateral.

What you can do

Function	Effect
deposit_bribe	Protocol deposits USDC for epoch
claim	Voter claims pro-rata USDC

Coil gauge_bps → BribeDistributor via CoilFeeRouter.

Flywheel fit

Aligns voter incentives with Coil fee generation — voters want gauges that keep fee flow healthy.

flowchart LR
    CFR[CoilFeeRouter gauge_bps] --> BD[BribeDistributor]
    GC[GaugeController snapshots] --> BD
    BD --> Claim[USDC to voters]

Contract walkthrough

BribeDistributor.vy:

• Claims use frozen per-epoch vote snapshots — not live vote state (anti flash-loan)
• Per-bucket solvency cap (audit A-series fix)
• sweep_unclaimed escape valve for stuck funds

BribeDistributorMerkle.vy — merkle proofs at scale + ROOT_DELAY timelock.

Sepolia

Contract	Address
BribeDistributor	0xE123E1bB4cdAa3175107402144Fb627cab15b43A
EmissionRouter USDC	0xf28A9E305BD4631442b89a73a58387B4d66b511F

What can go wrong

Risks

• Bribe UX depends on correct epoch indexing.
• Merkle root disputes during ROOT_DELAY window.
• USDC-only bribes — not TARE emission in FLYWHEEL 2.0 surplus path.

Source: khomdev-veforge/src/BribeDistributor.vy