# Fee Gauges & Bribes ### Fee Gauges Governance participants can vote on "fee gauges" for specific LSTs. A lower fee gauge means a particular LST is charged lower fees by the pool compared to other LSTs with a higher fee gauge, for an equal amount of available liquidity. \ \ Fee gauges can be lower or higher for certain LSTs or LRTs if they give more incentives to liquidity providers or if they have a lower/higher perceived risk than others (e.g. some restaked ETH could carry higher risk than regular LSTs). ### Bribes LSTs/LRTs can offer bribes to the pool to improve their fee gauge, and thus their competitive advantage in the market. Bribes can be offered either through various tokens, such as our own governance token, the LSTs own governance token or other tokens. --- # 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.lpeth.xyz/governance/fee-gauges-and-bribes.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.