> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tech.ramses.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Ramses Overview

## Protocol, Interface, Community

It helps to distinguish the different things people call "Ramses":

* **Ramses Protocol**: The on-chain contracts for concentrated liquidity, emissions, fee routing, and governance.
* **Ramses Interface**: The web application used to interact with those contracts.

## What is Ramses?

Ramses extends Uniswap V3-style concentrated liquidity with a weekly governance and rewards system built around:

1. **Period-based accounting** for CL positions
2. **Non-custodial gauge rewards**
3. **xRAM governance** through `XRam`, `VoteModule`, and `Voter`
4. **Protocol-fee routing** through `FeeCollector` and `FeeDistributor`
5. **Liquid governance exposure** through `R33` / `hyperRAM`

## Protocol Architecture

### Concentrated-liquidity core

* **RamsesV3Factory**: Creates and configures CL pools
* **RamsesV3Pool**: Handles swaps, liquidity, oracle state, and protocol fee accrual
* **RamsesV3PositionManager**: Manages NFT positions and reward-claim integrations

### Emissions and fee routing

* **GaugeV3**: Reward distribution for active CL markets
* **ClGaugeFactory**: Gauge deployment and implementation management
* **FeeCollector**: Pulls protocol fees from CL pools and routes them onward
* **FeeDistributor**: Stores per-period voter rewards for a single market

### Governance and token stack

* **XRam**: Transfer-restricted governance token created from RAM
* **VoteModule**: Staked xRAM balances, delegation, admin permissions, cooldowns
* **Voter**: Vote accounting, gauge registry, emissions routing, reward claims
* **Minter**: Weekly emission controller with capped total supply
* **AccessHub**: Role, multisig, and timelock control plane
* **R33 / hyperRAM**: ERC4626 liquid governance wrapper

## Weekly Period Model

The contracts use:

```solidity theme={null}
period = block.timestamp / 1 weeks
```

That weekly clock drives:

* When votes become active
* When fee and incentive rewards are queued
* When emissions roll forward
* When cooldown and unlock windows apply

See [Token Contracts & Emissions](/concepts/tokenomics) for the contract-level flow.