# ⓥ Governance

*The two critical ingredients to successful tokenomics are protocol governance and harvesting the results of the decisions made by the voters.*

### Why lock VIRES? <a href="#why-lock-vires" id="why-lock-vires"></a>

*VIRES locking reflects your commitment to the protocol governance*. Therefore, it grants you the ability to make decisions and **directly earn your share of the protocol’s income**. This share exists in the form of *gVires*.

### What is gVires? <a href="#what-is-gvires" id="what-is-gvires"></a>

**gVires**(g is for ‘governance’) is a unit of measure of your commitment to the protocol’s future. The more Vires you lock, the more you are committed; therefore, the more voting power and the larger share of the protocol’s revenue stream you receive.

![Sample 'Claim Revenue' page](https://1897045562-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-MbfmWt68vgemh1chTQK%2Fuploads%2FdKxkg8n4Z0ieXejusZQi%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=bcba0bbd-4c90-4186-8939-563a640186d7)

### Deprecation of Vires Staking <a href="#deprecation-of-vires-staking" id="deprecation-of-vires-staking"></a>

Vires staking is not a commitment: users can always unstake and sell their tokens, leaving the community behind the decisions made. Therefore, simply staking doesn’t provide any part of the revenue stream of the protocol.