Grant Application: CoW Hooks dApps

Grant Title:

CoW Hooks dApps

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Author:

@bleu @yvesfracari @ribeirojose @mendesfabio

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About You:

bleu collaborates with companies and DAOs as a web3 technology and user experience partner. We’re passionate about bridging the experience gap we see in blockchain and web3.

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Additional Links:

Our work for CoW so far:

• [CoW] AMM Deployer: a Safe app to deploy new CoW AMM pools from a Safe Wallet.
• [CoW] MilkmApp: a Safe App designed for creating and managing Milkman orders within the CoW ecosystem. It empowers DAOs to sell tokens while deferring the price determination to execution time, leveraging price checkers for optimal pricing strategies.
• [CoW] Python SDK (ongoing): we’re helping CoW put together a Python SDK to provide for developers for query on-chain data, managing orders, and integrating with the CoW Protocol’s smart contracts.
• [CoW] Stop-Loss (closing): a Safe app UI to allow for multisig wallets to fully manage stop-loss orders.
• [CoW] Have I been MEV’d: a suite of bots and a web application integrated with the ZeroMEV API to inform the Web3 community about potential MEV losses.

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Grant Category:

User interface and user experience (UI/UX)

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Grant Description:

The purpose of this grant is to develop a set of hooks dApps for the CoW Swap Hook Store. The Hook Store is a feature within CoW Swap that allows users to add pre and post hooks to their swaps. Currently, the Hook Store offers a limited number of hook dApps, including a transaction builder and a Gnosis rewards claim function. Our goal is to expand this selection and facilitate a wider range of DeFi workflows.

To achieve this, we plan to integrate the recently developed cow-shed and weiroll tools, enabling the creation of more complex hooks that can handle permissions.

For each hook, we aim to deliver a complete integration into CoW Swap, with the final code merged into the codebase. We have already initiated collaboration with the CoW Swap frontend team to ensure smooth implementation.

In preparation for this project, we have:

1. Drafted mockups and transaction flows for the proposed hooks (available here).
2. Developed a proof-of-concept (PoC) for an exit and swap operation (demo available here)

Our objective is to significantly enhance the functionality of the CoW Swap Hook Store, providing users with a more versatile and powerful set of tools for managing their DeFi operations. Additionally, we aim to provide valuable feedback to the CoW team based on our development experience, contributing to the ongoing improvement of the CoW Hooks developer experience and expanding its future possibilities.

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Grant Goals and Impact:

This project aims to enhance the CoW Swap Hook Store by developing hooks for DeFi operations. This will significantly improve CoW Swap's versatility and enhance user experience. Ultimately, these improvements will position the CoW Swap Hook Store as a more complete programmatic order tool, sharing the potential and versatility of the CoW with more devs.

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Milestones:

| Milestone | Due Date | Payment (22k xDAI + 22k COW vested) | | --- | --- | --- | | UI/UX Validation | 1 week | 2k xDAI + 2k COW vested | | Claim Airdrop | 2 week | 4k xDAI + 4k COW vested | | Hooks Setup | 3 weeks | 6k xDAI + 6k COW vested | | Liquidity pool hooks | 3 weeks | 6k xDAI + 6k COW vested | | Vesting hooks | 2 weeks | 4k xDAI + 4k COW vested |

UI/UX validation (1 week)

Since the end goal of this project is to achieve a production-ready feature on the CoW Swap, the agreement on the UI/UX is essential. For that, the bleu designer will create the designs and get validation from the CoW Swap team.

Claim Airdrop (2 weeks)

As a suggestion of Anxo, from the CoW Swap FE team, this pre-hook can be used for claiming regular airdrops or encouraging the usage of CoW in a new network. We know that each airdrop can have a different way of claiming and we want to support the same used for COW in the past. If a new airdrop is launched in the future but using another interface, we're open to integrating it, but it's outside the scope of this grant.

Hooks Setup (3 weeks)

While the current state of the hook store interface and UX is good, a few adjustments are still needed to cover the use cases presented in this proposal. We believe that working on this setup first will enhance the UI's usability.

For more information access the forum proposal linked at the snapshot.

Liquidity Pool Hooks (3 weeks)

The main use cases for this hook are single-side add or remove liquidity without impacting the pool price, and migrating liquidity from one pool to another. To achieve this, add (pre) and remove (post) hooks will be created. This quote considers the integration of two protocols and we suggest Uniswap V2 and the recently launched CoW AMM built on Balancer.

Vesting Hooks (2 weeks)

Two hooks will be created: one to claim an existing vesting contract using a pre-hook, and another to use the output of the swap to create a new vesting contract. The claim hook is simpler and doesn't require cow-shed for execution. We suggest the integration with Llama Pay.

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Funding Request:

We propose that milestone payments be released upon each milestone’s approval.

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Budget Breakdown:

The budget includes the hourly rates of a developer during the execution and a project manager on a need basis. The xDAI part of the budget shall be paid after each milestone’s completion and the COW shall be vested over 1 year to cover diluted maintenance and related costs for the same period.

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Gnosis Chain Address (to receive the grant):

0x554866e3654E8485928334e7F91B5AfC37D18e04

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Other Information:

• All the code will be open-source from day 0. We’re open to feedback during PRs as well;
• We’re happy to answer any questions and are open to feedback about this proposal;
• weiroll contract isn't audited yet, so if an audit is needed it is outside the scope of this grant;
• Since post-hooks aren't enforced there is a possibility to some tokens stays on the cow-shed proxy. Only the user can interact with its own proxy. A UI might be useful to handle this case, however we didn't quote it yet because its specifications are still to be defined.
• Since this project will be developed on the cowswap codebase, we anticipate a need for closer collaboration between bleu and the CoW Swap team. We've already begun this process by validating and discussing each point of this proposal with them. All work developed by bleu will be reviewed by the CoW Swap team. To ensure this process runs as smoothly as possible, we recognize that communication is key. We'll maintain close contact, validating technical decisions and seeking guidance during the early stages of the project.

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Terms and Conditions:

By submitting this grant application, I acknowledge and agree to be bound by the CoW DAO Participation Agreement and the CoW Grant Terms and Conditions.