Bribe is a DeFi governance marketplace that auctioned pooled DAO voting power to the highest bidder, allowing governance-token holders to earn yield on otherwise idle tokens. Bribe's Twitter Score is 24 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #40,643 (top 10%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Bribe was founded by the pseudonymous figure 0xCondorcet and built around a mechanism the team called Voter Extractable Value, or VEV. Under this model, token holders deposited assets into protocol-specific pools while external bidders competed to direct the pooled voting power, with winning bids distributed back to depositors. Aave served as the first protocol integration, with its pool accepting AAVE and stkAAVE tokens and auctioning their combined governance power for USDC bids. Bribe was also an Aave Grants recipient.
Bribe announced a $4 million seed round on January 12, 2022, led by Spartan Group, with participation from Dragonfly, Rarestone Capital, Hypersphere, Fundamental Labs, IOSG Ventures, Figment, Fenbushi Capital, GravityX Capital, and Shima Capital. The protocol also issued $BRIBE, a governance and utility token with revenue-sharing functionality for holders. Despite this backing, a designer who worked on the protocol's initial product later reported that the project changed direction, failed, and was discontinued.
Bribe has published 418 posts on the platform and has 3,883 followers as of October 2026. The account has been mentioned by 29 accounts, with 45 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Bribe include 74 founders, 33 angel investors, 40 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Stani, Murad, Eric Wall, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Andy and 0xMaki.