# Longer-Lock Ups == More Governance Power & Higher Token Emission Rewards **URL:** \ **Category:** Tokenomics\ **Created:** [April 4, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.marinade.finance/t/longer-lock-ups-more-governance-power-higher-token-emission-rewards/121 "2022-04-04T21:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![PlayerOfBits](https://forum.marinade.finance/user_avatar/forum.marinade.finance/playerofbits/32/18_2.png) [@PlayerOfBits](https://forum.marinade.finance/u/PlayerOfBits)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.marinade.finance/t/longer-lock-ups-more-governance-power-higher-token-emission-rewards/121/4 "2022-04-05T13:01:51Z")
I’ve gone back and forth on this myself. I like the general idea, and as a token holder it does encourage me to lock up my stake. While I appreciate and respect Marinade’s focus on helping people keep their stake liquid, I do think there’s value in long-term alignment. However, a concern is that players with deeper pockets can not only afford to get more of a token but to risk it on a longer-term lock. This means that multi-year vote lock multipliers can skew decision-making to those with deeper pockets. Is this a concern for anyone else? My current thinking on it is that it should have a voting power increase but on with some tapering, but I’ve yet to build a model. It might be enough to initially try 6-month and 1-year locks with a fixed multiplier, and see what sort of behavior we get from voters. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.marinade.finance/t/longer-lock-ups-more-governance-power-higher-token-emission-rewards/121)._