Creating bribes

How to create a bribe for a market — minimum size, the weekly collection schedule, and the creation flow.

This guide walks through creating a bribe for a market in the Aquarius interface. For how bribes work under the hood — collection, validation, and distribution — see Bribes. To learn about earning bribes as a voter, refer to the voting guide.

Since June 2026 AQUA emission is limited to the assets whitelisted in the Asset Registry. While bribe creation remains open for any market, bribes on non-whitelisted markets won't lead to distributing any AQUA rewards.

Create a bribe

You can access the platform by navigating to vote.aqua.network/bribes. Click the create bribe + button.

As the first step, you need to select a market you wish to create a bribe for:

Next you'll have to select the asset the bribe is going to be paid in, and the amount. All bribes must be worth a minimum of 100,000 AQUA per week at the time of collection — Aquarius validates this by purchasing 100,000 AQUA from the bribe via a path payment. Bribes that fall short of the threshold are rejected and refunded.

Finally, you'll have to set the period for the bribe:

Bribes run in one-week cycles: every Sunday the Aquarius bribe fund wallet collects the bribes submitted for the upcoming week and distributes them linearly over the chosen week to those voting on your desired market.

Once you are happy everything is filled in correctly, click create bribe.

Confirm transaction

Double check everything is correct before submitting the bribe to the network. Once submitted, you can't edit or cancel the bribe.

Click add bribe again to complete your bribe submission.

Your bribe is now submitted and will be distributed to voters on the week you chose for the market you selected. If the validity check fails at collection, the bribe is returned to the sender.

A market can be incentivized with multiple Stellar assets in the same week, from many different users — bribes from separate creators stack on the same market.