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# Quickstart Guide 

This guide is meant to help users jump into the Votium ecosystem asap, please read the Voter Manual for a more comprehensive walkthrough and more details that are missing from this guide.

## Convex (vlCVX) incentives:

Start earning extra incentives with your CVX:

1. Lock your CVX for 16 weeks on [Convex](https://www.convexfinance.com/lock-cvx).
2. To start receiving Votium incentives, you have 2 options:
   1. **Delegate to Votium** via the delegate button on the [Votium website](https://votium.app/). Votium will vote on several incentivized pools for you and you won't have to do anything to receive incentives. Delegating is NOT mandatory. While delegated, **you can still vote manually** for a single pool if you would like to receive a specific incentive of only one token. You can also use third party tools like [The Union](https://llama.airforce/#/union/member) to streamline the process even further.
   2. **Vote manually** on Convex after incentives are deposited to Votium (when the proposal is live). For example, here is illustrated a $DAI incentive of 100,000 $DAI. To receive a share of the incentive you will have to vote for 3pool on Convex. You can click on the button on the bottom of the card to take you to the Convex voting page.

That's it! all you have to do is wait for the proposal to end, and the incentives will appear on the Votium claim page (or The Union if you are using it) \~24-48 hours after the proposal is over!

If you have questions left unanswered, please check out the [FAQ ](/faq/vlcvx-faq.md)page & join our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/dvPcqPAbTh)!