- VeChain has introduced a relayer feature on VeBetter that automates voting and reward claims.
- Relayers receive up to 10% of the rewards claimed, thereby creating a new incentive model for apps, developers and community members.
VeChain has introduced a new relayer feature on VeBetter that aims to automate weekly voting and receiving rewards. The VeBetter ecosystem benefits from this because it also creates a new incentive model for apps, developers and community members who take on the task of relayers. In an X post from March 13th wrote VeChain:
“Enable auto-reconciliation and let the community manage weekly voting and reward claims on your behalf, including all VTHO costs, to ensure optimal reward efficiency on VeBetter.”
At the same time, the VeChain Foundation advertised for new operators. According to the official documentation, once activated, a relayer takes over both the weekly voting and the subsequent claiming of the rewards. For this he receives a fee of 10% on the weekly claimed rewards, capped at 100 B3TR per week. VeBetter justifies this with the operational costs:
“The service monitors all automation users and automatically processes transactions on their behalf. The 10% fee, capped at 100 B3TR, covers gas costs and ensures reliable, hands-free automation every week.”
However, there are requirements for participation. At the time of the snapshot, there must be at least 1 VOT3 in the wallet, three sustainable actions must have been completed, at least one selectable app must be selected, and there must be no bot marking by an app operator. Anyone who activates during a current round does not benefit immediately; The automation only takes effect from the next round.
How VeChain’s relayers get paid
On the other side are the relayers. The docs describe them as services available to users with enabled automation vote, claim rewards and receive a share of the fee pool. According to VeBetter, this role is basically open to everyone:
“Anyone can become a relayer: apps, community members, developers. Registration is open — all you have to do is call registerRelayer() in the RelayerRewardsPool contract.”
The income is not distributed across the board, but rather based on work performance. There are three weighted points for a vote cast, one point for a reward claim, and a total of four points for a fully served user. The shared pool is divided proportionally to these points at the end of the round. In the documents, VeBetter gives an example with 1,000 B3TR in the pool, of which a relayer with 200 out of 800 total weighted points would receive 250 B3TR.
The VeChain Foundation also argues that the relayer role could allow applications to move from a model in which they pay for attention or vote flow to a model in which they execute votes and earn additional fees.
This is supported by the profitability calculation in the node documentation: VeBetter estimates costs of around 6.49 VTHO or around 0.11 B3TR per user and round, while an average user earns 90 to 190 B3TR per round, according to Docs. At a 10% fee, 9 to 19 B3TR per user would flow into the pool.
This means that VeChain on VeBetter is not just launching a convenience update, but rather a governance and incentive module with clear economic consequences. According to the documentation, the system is still in the MVP phase and can therefore be changed.
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