# Aquarius voting

**Aquarius** empowers the **AQUA-holding community** to vote on where they’d like to direct liquidity across the **Stellar native order book DEX** and **Aquarius AMM**. Users select the markets they value most by placing votes using **AQUA** and **ICE** tokens.

By using the **Voting tool**, Aquarius users allocate **AQUA** and **ICE** to their preferred markets. If a market receives enough votes, it becomes eligible for **AQUA SDEX & Aquarius AMM rewards**.

#### Learn More About Rewards:

* [**SDEX rewards**](https://aqua.network/sdex-rewards) – Distributed **automatically every hour** to liquidity providers on the **Stellar order book**.
* [**Aquarius AMM rewards**](https://aqua.network/amm-rewards) – Accrued **every block** for liquidity providers and must be manually claimed.

#### 🔒 What Makes Voting Trustworthy?

Voting occurs **entirely on the Stellar blockchain**, ensuring that votes are **immutable and verifiable**. The system leverages the **claimable balance operation**, allowing **AQUA and ICE holders** to reclaim their tokens after a set period. Once reclaimed, these tokens can be used again.

#### 🧐 How Liquidity Voting Works

When a user selects **market pairs** and commits **AQUA or ICE** to support them, the voting platform generates **transactions containing claimable balances**. These transactions are submitted to the Stellar network and processed in the **next available ledger** (typically within **5 seconds**). Once submitted:

* Votes **cannot be altered or tampered with**.
* Votes remain **locked** according to the parameters of the claimable balances.

#### 🎁 Reward Distribution

For a market to qualify for **SDEX & AMM rewards**, it must receive **at least 1%** of all votes cast for liquidity voting. For example:

* If **1 billion AQUA** is used for liquidity voting, a market must receive **>10 million AQUA votes** to become eligible for rewards.
* This system allows up to **100 markets** to receive AQUA rewards at the same time.

Once a market becomes eligible, the **assigned rewards depend on its ranking**:

* A market receiving **5% of total votes** earns **twice as much** as a market with **2.5% of votes**.
* To **maximize rewards** for your preferred markets, **vote to boost their ranking**.

#### 🚀 Reward Cap & Distribution Limits

The **maximum daily reward share for a single market** is **20%**. For example:

* If **7 million AQUA** is allocated daily to SDEX & AMM rewards, a single market can receive a maximum of **1.4 million AQUA per day**.
* **Votes exceeding the 20% cap do not further increase rewards** for that market.

📖 [**Learn how to vote on Aquarius in this guide**](https://aqua.network/voting-guide).


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