Governance and Voting

Convex governance has moved to a dedicated on-chain voting platform for vlCVX holders.

The new system lets vlCVX holders and their delegates vote through Convex on DAO proposals and gauge weight allocations across supported protocols. Convex aggregates vlCVX voting results and uses those results to submit Convex's vote through the relevant external governance contracts.

Use the new Convex Governance UI here:

https://www.convexfinance.com/vote

What changed

Previously, many Convex voting flows were handled through Snapshot. The new voting system introduces on-chain Convex voting contracts for:

• DAO proposal voting — votes for supported protocol governance proposals.

• Gauge weight voting — weight allocation across supported gauges.

• Separate delegation — users may delegate DAO voting weight and gauge voting weight independently.

• A dedicated governance UI — active proposals, vote weight management.

Supported voting categories

The Governance UI currently organizes voting into these categories:

• Curve Gauge Weights

• f(x) Protocol Gauge Weights

• Curve DAO Proposals

• f(x) Protocol DAO Proposals

• Frax DAO Proposals

• Resupply DAO Proposals

• Convex DAO Proposals

If there is no active proposal for a category, the UI will show that no proposal is currently available.

Who can vote

Voting power comes from vlCVX, which is created by locking CVX.

A wallet can vote if it has effective vlCVX voting weight for the relevant voting epoch. Effective voting weight may come from:

• the wallet's own locked CVX balance, or

• voting weight delegated to that wallet by other vlCVX holders.

To lock CVX, use the Convex lock page:

https://www.convexfinance.com/lockwww.convexfinance.com

Voting epochs and timing

vlCVX voting power is epoch-based. Convex lock epochs begin weekly on Thursday at 00:00 UTC.

For voting, the proposal records an epoch when the proposal is created. Your voting weight for that proposal is based on your vlCVX balance and delegation state for that recorded epoch.

Important timing rules:

• CVX locked during the current epoch counts after the next epoch begins.

• Delegation changes take effect from the next epoch.

• Relocking expired CVX can restore voting power for the current epoch.

• If a lock has expired, the user may need to process expired locks or relock before voting.

DAO voting

DAO proposals are yes/no votes. A voter may allocate voting weight between yes and no using percentages.

Examples:

• 100% yes / 0% no

• 0% yes / 100% no

• 60% yes / 40% no

Convex aggregates vlCVX votes and uses the final percentage result when submitting its external governance vote.

Gauge weight voting

Gauge weight proposals let vlCVX holders decide how Convex voting power is allocated across gauges for supported protocols such as Curve and f(x) Protocol.

Voters allocate 100% of their vote weight across one or more eligible gauges. Convex aggregates all votes and submits the final gauge weights through the relevant external gauge-voting system.

Delegation

Delegation lets another address vote with your vlCVX weight without moving your CVX or vlCVX.

The new Governance UI supports separate delegation flows for:

• Gauge weight votes delegate

• DAO votes delegate

You can delegate to a specific address or use the UI option to delegate to the Convex team.