# Past round: Epoch 2

**URL:** <https://voting.liquity.org/t/past-round-epoch-2/62>\
**Category:** Voting\
**Created:** [May 19, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://voting.liquity.org/t/past-round-epoch-2/62 "2025-05-19T06:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bojan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/voting.liquity.org/bojan/32/30_2.png) [@Bojan](https://voting.liquity.org/u/Bojan)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://voting.liquity.org/t/past-round-epoch-2/62/1 "2025-05-19T06:42:49Z")

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These initiatives can be voted on in the current Epoch which ends next Wednesday at 23:59:59 UTC. The initiatives will receive protocol incentives at the start of the following Epoch.

**What initiatives can be voted on?**

- Curve BOLD/USDC
- Curve BOLD/LUSD
- [Defi Collective](https://voting.liquity.org/t/the-defi-collective-bold-liquidity-initiative-maximize-bold-footprint-on-l2s/15)

**Why were those initiatives chosen?**

- Curve: Is optimized for stablecoin liquidity and enables V2 to incentivize pools in a trustless and automated manner.
- DeFi Collective: proposed an initiative and has a good track record of supporting LUSD liquidity.

**How to vote?**  
After staking LQTY on one of the frontends, you will be able to distribute your votes. Read more [here](https://www.liquity.org/blog/voting-in-liquity-v2).

**What is a suitable vote distribution?**  
While every voter is free to allocate his voting power however desired, a split which would suit the protocol well in the beginning is:

- Curve BOLD/USDC - 75% =\> Core mainnet liquidity for BOLD
- Curve BOLD/LUSD - 10% =\> Support LUSD to BOLD conversions
- Defi Collective - 15% =\> Expand BOLD to L2s

Once you have voted, your votes will count in all future epochs - you don’t need to vote every epoch. You only need to vote again if you want to adjust your voting weights, or if your LQTY stake changed (add/remove LQTY).

**Voting Epochs & Periods**

Voting operates in weekly epochs. Each epoch starts with the first Ethereum block after Thursday 00:00 UTC and ends with the last block on Wednesday 23:59:59 UTC.

- Voting Period: Thursday 00:00 UTC – Tuesday 23:59:59 UTC
- Downvote Period: Thursday 00:00 UTC – Wednesday 23:59:59 UTC

During the final 24 hours (Wednesday), voting is disabled. However, users can still remove votes or reallocate them to downvotes.

**Are those initiatives hard-coded?**  
No. In any weekly epoch new initiatives can be registered.

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**Author:** ![zk0t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a698b9/32.png) [@zk0t](https://voting.liquity.org/u/zk0t)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://voting.liquity.org/t/past-round-epoch-2/62/2 "2025-05-19T20:22:07Z")

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Will be voting in line with the suggestion; I think this best fits the aims for the newly released v2.