Grant Application - Core Contributor Researcher

About me :

Studied at HEC Paris alongside a Bachelor’s in Fundamental Mathematics.

Currently pursuing a top Master’s in Economics, aiming for a PhD in Finance.

Gained deep insight into solver team issues during a 3-month internship.

Grant Description :

The goal of this grant is to collaborate with the core team to redesign the current reward and fee system within the solver competition, with the objective of making it strategy-proof and economically viable.

Grant Type : time-based.

Grant Goals and Impact :

I will dedicate six weeks to addressing how edge cases in CoW Protocol’s reward mechanism allow value to leak to solvers and users, creating significant overhead in monitoring the solver competition. The goal is to explore and design a new mechanism that enhances financial sustainability and builds a more robust, strategy-proof fee and reward structure.

I shall provide the Services to CoW DAO from October 20th to November 28th.

Milestones :

Milestone 1 : mathematically formalizing a new mechanism idea which aims to incentivize solvers to join the competition on new chains.

Milestone 2 : putting together a concrete implementation proposal for this idea.

Scope of Work :

I expect to work ~10h per week on the project.

Funding Request :

My fee is €45 an hour, with the maximum of €700 (“Fee”) per week inclusive of taxes.

Gnosis Chain Address :

0x3639e9b1E2Fd0BbA2a0EaFB10789AEFD488A09A0

Referral :

@AndreaC ; @felixhenneke

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 Agreement.

By submitting this grant application, I acknowledge and agree to be bound by the applicable CoW DAO Core Contributor Grant Terms.