Step 5
Beyond voting, providing liquidity on Tapp is the other half of the flywheel, and committing your LP position takes it a step further.
What committing your LP means: When you provide liquidity to a pool on Tapp, you receive LP tokens representing your position. Committing those LP tokens means depositing them into the pool's gauge, which makes your position eligible to receive $TAPP emissions directed by voters.
Without committing, your LP position still earns its share of trading fees from the pool. But you miss out on the $TAPP emission rewards entirely, and a half of the pool fees goes towards voting rewards. Given that emissions can represent a substantial portion of total LP returns, especially in the early stages of the protocol, leaving your LP uncommitted is leaving money on the table.
How to commit: After providing liquidity to a pool, navigate to the portfolio section of the app. [Exact UI flow TBC.] You should see an option to commit your LP tokens. Confirm the transaction, and your position will start earning $TAPP emissions immediately.
Why it matters for the flywheel: Committed liquidity is what makes the ve(3,3) engine run. When voters direct emissions to a pool, those rewards go to committed LPs. This incentivises deeper liquidity, which enables better trade execution, which drives more volume, which generates more fees, which attracts more votes. Remove any piece and the flywheel slows down.
From a purely self-interested perspective: if you're providing liquidity anyway, committing your LP is a no-brainer. The fees you earn from trading activity remain the same whether committed or not, but the additional emission rewards are only accessible to committed positions.
If you also hold $veTAPP, you can vote for the pools where you've committed LP. This means you're earning trading fees as a voter and earning emission rewards as a committed LP in the same pool. It's the maximum-extraction play and exactly how ve(3,3) rewards its most engaged participants.
Putting It All Together
The ve(3,3) model rewards participation at every level, but it rewards combined participation most of all. Here's the full loop:
Lock $TAPP into $veTAPP to gain voting power.
Each epoch, vote for the pools with the best fee-to-vote ratios.
Provide liquidity to high-volume pools and commit your LP tokens to earn emissions.
Claim your fees and emission rewards.
Use earned $TAPP to lock more, compounding your voting power over time.
The participants who treat this as a weekly practice, reviewing pools, adjusting votes, managing their positions, will consistently outperform those who set and forget. ve(3,3) is not a passive yield strategy. It's an active game with real edges available to those paying attention.
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