Epochs & the weekly cycle

BarkSwap runs on a weekly clock. Each week is called an epoch, and it flips every Thursday at 00:00 UTC. Almost everything in ve(3,3) — voting, emissions, fees, bribes, the rebase — lines up with this rhythm.

One epoch = one week. Vote during the week; rewards settle at the flip.

What happens during the week

• Vote any time. You can cast or change your vote at any point in the epoch. Your weights apply to the current epoch.
• Trade and provide liquidity as usual. Fees accrue continuously to the pools.
• Projects add bribes to pools they want voters to back.

What happens at the flip (Thursday 00:00 UTC)

• Emissions are distributed. The week's freshly minted BARK is streamed to each pool's gauge, split by the votes that pool received.
• Fees & bribes become claimable. Voters can collect the trading fees and bribes from the pools they backed during the epoch that just ended.
• The rebase is paid to lockers.
• A new voting epoch begins.

The one rule to remember: one vote per epoch

Each veNFT can vote once per epoch. You're free to change that vote during the week, but you don't get extra power by voting repeatedly. When the new epoch starts, your previous vote doesn't automatically carry your latest voting power forward — if you want it re-applied with refreshed power, you "poke" it or simply vote again. The app handles this for you; just remember to vote each week to keep earning.

Set a weekly reminder

The simplest habit that keeps the flywheel paying you: once a week, open BarkSwap, claim your rewards, and re-vote. Thursday is the natural day, since that's when the epoch flips.

Why Thursday 00:00 UTC?

Epoch boundaries have to be fixed and predictable so emissions and rewards settle cleanly for everyone at once. BarkSwap uses Thursday 00:00 UTC, the same convention several ve(3,3) and vote-locking protocols follow.

How it connects

When	What you do	Covered in
Any time	Lock BARK to get / grow a veNFT	Lock BARK
During the epoch	Vote for pools	Vote
After the flip	Claim fees, bribes, rebase, emissions	Claim rewards

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