# Bounty program for Balancer + CoW Swap integration **URL:** https://forum.cow.fi/t/bounty-program-for-balancer-cow-swap-integration/1728 **Category:** Funded Grants **Tags:** complete, grant-funded **Created:** [June 7, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.cow.fi/t/bounty-program-for-balancer-cow-swap-integration/1728 "2023-06-07T12:59:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![AndreaC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@AndreaC](https://forum.cow.fi/u/AndreaC) #### Post date: [June 12, 2023, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.cow.fi/t/bounty-program-for-balancer-cow-swap-integration/1728/4 "2023-06-12T08:22:54Z")
Thank you @middleway.eth and @mfw78 for your comments! @middleway.eth : you are fully correct! I was a bit sloppy in describing the proposal, but in practice it will work exactly the way you describe (and it is indeed DAI not USDC) @mfw78 let me give you a bit of context (which was lacking in my initial message). We see this integration as a first step toward a potentially deep collaboration between us and Balancer. For example, see the [result of this research grant](https://forum.cow.fi/t/surplus-capturing-amm-study-results/1650) (there is some additional internal research on how you could integrate a batch with an AMM that we will release soon). The Balancer team moved extremely rapidly precisely because they understood this as a first step to a longer journey. You are correct that competition between solvers should be enough to _eventually_ start using the Balancer’s discount. The problem on our end is speed: we would like them to start doing it quickly to move rapidly to the next collaboration stage. This is also why we did not calculate this reward based on costs: the rewards are not meant to provide the incentives (as you said, there is the competition for that); they are meant to be a nudge to do that quickly. Finally, we did not base our proposal on an estimated order flow to those specific pools. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.cow.fi/t/bounty-program-for-balancer-cow-swap-integration/1728)._