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

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

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.


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:

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Thanks @Sailjunkie for the proposal.
In light of your previous contributions, I’d be in favor of approving this grant.

Few questions and clarifications:

  1. Would the work be available in a public github repo in addition to the public Dune dashboards?
  2. It’d be great if a member of the solver team can be assigned as reviewer for this proposal milestone submissions.
  3. Clarifying that payments will be done only after approval of the reviewer and anyway only at the end of the month in the scheduled Grants program payment cycle.
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  1. The work will be added to the relevant cow dao repos on github. I’ll post a link in the forum once the final version is released.
  2. I’ll let a solver team member answer.
  3. Yes, of course.

I agree that everything should be available in relevant public github repos, and I would be happy to be a reviewer of all the milestones and share here updates when each milestone has been achieved.

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Hi @Sailjunkie - I think this can be moved to Snapshot for the committee’s voting.

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Very much in support for this proposal and looking forward to the dashboard and definition revamps.

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Hey @Sailjunkie - looks like it’s passing!
Hey, on the payment cycles: the grant committee always does their payment rounds at the end of a month / first week of the following month. So it would be useful if you could ping here your accumulated amount for that month (or for the weeks that have been completed that months) and tag @harisang for confirmation (specific weeks + requested amounts).
For now, do you have your request for the two weeks of October?
(basically specific enough that the committee and Haris knows which weeks you’re requesting how much for).
You can also wait for the next payment cycle if you would like of course.

Hi @c3nst, I did not reach any milestones yet, so will wait for next month.

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