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# Understanding Gauges

For a better understanding of the following section, the reader is advised to read:

1. [the gauge explanation](https://resources.curve.fi/reward-gauges/understanding-gauges) at Curve;
2. [the gauge weights explanation](https://resources.curve.fi/reward-gauges/gauge-weights) at Curve.

Each Convergence staking pool (**`cvgSDT`**, **`sdTKNs`** and **`LPs`**) will be paired to a gauge. Each gauge has a weight. This weight determines how much of the weekly **`CVG`**'s inflation will be received by a given staking pool. 

Unlike Curve’s gauges, the user’s shares of staking pools will not be determined by gauges but directly by each staking pool contract. 

Gauges types will be implemented in case the DAO decides to give different types to gauges later. In the beginning, all gauges will have the same type. 

Staking pools **`CVG`** distribution will be done weekly according to gauge weights and synchronized on Convergence’s Cycles (**`cvgCycles`**). The amount of **`CVG`** a given staking pool will receive is a function of the corresponding given gauge weight (sum of total weight deployed in this gauge) and the total weight across all gauges. 

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For example, if users have deployed 20% of their total voting weight into the **`cvgSDT`** gauge by the end of a given **`cvgCycle`**, the **`cvgSDT`** staking pool will receive 20% of the weekly inflation of **`CVG`**. Those **`CVG`** will then be redistributed to **`cvgSDT`** stakers according to their shares of the **`cvgSDT`** staking pool.
{% endhint %}

New gauges will be added when Convergence integrates new protocols.

<figure><img src="/files/IYYPEYebQzXMKyV033J3" alt=""><figcaption><p>Gauge functioning</p></figcaption></figure>