# Liquidity Gauges & Weight Voting ## Summary Liquidity Gauges are a simple, powerful, and flexible tool that gives the DAO governance the levers to direct rewards to where they add the most value. Gauges are made possible by weight voting. Weight voting democratizes decision-making by allowing token holders to vote on liquidity pool incentive ratios. It gives each user a voice and each token utility by steering the policy of the DAO. The underlying genius of Liquidity Gauges and Weight Voting is that value-adding behavior becomes incentivized! Steering the protocol via governance participation as well as providing liquidity are beneficial behaviors that receive proper compensation from Liquidity Gauges. As the proper value-adding behavior gets incentivized, the effect of growing interest compounds in the so-called Flywheel effect, where network effects take over to increase interest in the protocol. {% embed url="" %} ## Further Reading * Read out the blog post: [Liquidity Gauges and Weight Voting](https://blog.mangata.finance/blog/2022-11-25-mangata-introduces-liquidity-gauges-and-weight-voting/) * Watch the Video: [Liquidity Gauges and Weight Voting](https://youtu.be/3CIx16uRAuU) --- # 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.mangata.finance/welcome/litepaper/liquidity-gauges-and-weight-voting.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.