"In most DAOs today, users face significant opportunity costs when participating in governance. They have to lock up their tokens in voting contracts and forgo exposure to lending/borrowing or yield generating opportunities. This creates a dynamic in which large sets of users choose not to get involved in governance and prefer to deposit their tokens in interest-bearing positions or borrow against them instead. At the same time, this allows large actors to gain more influence in the system. As a result, many teams or small sets of whales end up running most processes within DAOs due to a lack of community participation, which goes against the purpose of decentralization in the first place. Essentially, Voting Vaults are a way to remedy plutocracy and low voter turnout. They allow for more users to get involved or delegate in governance, even if their governance tokens are locked in other platforms."