Core contributor Solver Engineer (Oct 2024 - Dec 2024 inclusive)

Author:

Sailjunkie

sailjunkieproton@proton.me

About You:

Master’s in Applied Maths, with specialized knowledge in applied maths, game theory, economics, and data science. Current student in Financial Technology Master’s Deep knowledge of the solver teams issue, after a 4-month internship Additional Links:

Previous grant completed: Grant Application - Core Contributor Solver Engineer (March 25th to July 12th)

Grant Category:

Develop monitoring infrastructure for solver competition, CoW AMM and MEV Blocker

Grant Description:

The goal of this grant is to execute on several data-related tasks relevant to the CoW Protocol solver competition, CoW AMMs and MEV Blocker performance.

Grant Goals and Impact:

I will devote at least 10 weeks to improving and refining several queries and dashboards around the CoW Protocol solver competition and CoW AMMs, as well as designing and executing a methodology for evaluating the performance of MEV Blocker.

I shall provide the Services to CoW DAO from October 14th to December 20th.

Milestones

The milestones will be reviewed individually by harisang to assess their achievement.

Milestone 1:

Refactoring the solver competition dashboard: updating all the queries to the most recents CIPs.

Milestone 2:

CoW AMM performances: Improving the performance measures on Dune of CoW AMMs to fit to additional features: 80/20 pools, nested pools

Milestone 3:

MEV Blocker performance: assessing the impact of MEV Blocker for speed of execution.

Milestone 4 [Optional]:

Defining formally a CoW: define precisely the concept of a CoW and implement as a function. As CoW

Funding Request:

My fee is €45 an hour, with the maximum of €600 (”Fee”) per week inclusive of taxes.

Gnosis Chain Address (to receive the grant):

0x42d11f6E71b1218E74f1A9123D17533E600a41e1

Referral:

@anna and @fleupold.

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