# Bribes & Delegation In Aquarius, market votes can be incentivized with **bribes** — extra rewards offered by projects, or by the protocol itself on highly traded markets, to attract ICE votes to specific pools. When you delegate your **upvoteICE** to a delegate: * **Bribes always flow back to you, the delegator**, never to the delegate. * Your earnings depend on how your delegate chooses to vote. There are **no bribes or rewards** connected to **governICE** delegation. Governance votes are about protocol decisions, not direct incentives. *** ### Why Delegation Helps Bribes are not static — they change **week by week**. To maximize rewards on your own, you would need to check markets regularly and update votes on time. Delegation solves this by letting an active delegate handle these updates for you. *** ### Delegate Strategies and Impact Different delegates may follow different approaches: * **Bribe-focused** – aiming to maximize short-term rewards by voting on markets with the highest bribes. * **Ecosystem-focused** – prioritizing long-term protocol health or liquidity depth, which may not always align with the top bribe markets. * **Inactive delegates** – if a delegate does not use the delegated ICE, no bribes are earned. As a delegator, your bribe income can vary widely depending on the delegate’s voting style. Review their activity and choose the delegate whose priorities align with yours. *** --- # 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.aqua.network/ice-delegation/bribes-and-delegation.md?ask= ``` 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.