# RuleBook for Apps

This ruleBook is a proposal based application, to protect the sustainability and fairness of the ecosystem. 

To preserve fair distribution of weekly allocation and prevent gaming of the system, the following **are prohibited** for any App seeking or receiving **B3TR incentives.** \
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For more context, please refer to this update: [12 May 2025 Governance update](https://governance.vebetterdao.org/proposals/44152250438943884062434103573124650362722284846407941118984384695777887098183) 

### 1. Direct Double Dipping <a href="#id-1-direct-double-dipping" id="id-1-direct-double-dipping"></a>

Apps must not use their own rewards to incentivize behaviors already directly compensated by protocol-level Vote2Earn incentives (e.g., proposal voting). Rewarding user to&#x20;

### 2. Recursive Rewarding (Incentive Layering) <a href="#id-2-recursive-rewarding-incentive-layering" id="id-2-recursive-rewarding-incentive-layering"></a>

Apps must not reward users for interacting with another incentivized App when:

* The action is already subject to B3TR allocation.
* The behavior results in redundant compensation for the same activity.

This includes:

* Wrapping or mirroring existing Apps to farm additional incentives.
* Stacking reward layers for a single on-chain action.
* Reciprocal arrangements between Apps that loop rewards for shared behaviors.

### 3. Fragmentation for Reward Multiplication <a href="#id-3-fragmentation-for-reward-multiplication" id="id-3-fragmentation-for-reward-multiplication"></a>

Splitting functionalities into multiple Apps for the purpose of inflating total allocations is not allowed. Interdependent or co-deployed Apps may be evaluated as a unit.

### 4. Social Amplification Loops <a href="#id-4-social-amplification-loops" id="id-4-social-amplification-loops"></a>

Rewarding users for promoting, relaying, or proxying already-incentivized actions (e.g., vote sharing or vote proxying) is disallowed if the base action is already rewarded by the protocol.

TLDR;

* Rewarding users beyond the App action-based incentives is strictly prohibited.
* No extra rewards for actions already incentivized by VeBetter are allowed.&#x20;

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