Period: January 6 – January 12, 2026
🔨 Value Distribution RFP
RFP for CoW Value Distribution Mechanism research went live. Legal reviewed and approved. Notion submission form created for sealed bid process (applicants submit confidentially, all disclosed at selection). NotSoFormal doing outreach to potential applicants including market makers and advisory firms. Forum: RFP | Submission Form
💼 CIP-82 Grants Renewal
Renewal proposal resubmitted as CIP-82 after the initial vote failed due to the holidays. Vote active through mid-January. MFW is preparing a detailed status update on all pending grants. Snapshot
🔗 PolySwap Grant • Beta production live
Intermarch3 delivered the final milestone. Full end-to-end flow is functional and ready for review. Grant complete pending payment. Forum Update
📚 Retro Grant: 15 Merged PRs • Snapshot passed
Vote approved. Payment is scheduled on the normal monthly cycle. Forum
📊 Bleu Archive Node Request
MFW met with the Bleu team on Jan 5. Request submitted for mainnet archive node access to develop with heavy liquidity and deployed pools. Awaiting response from the core team.
🤝 Core Team Debugability Project
Anxo noted that the core team is brainstorming improvements to protocol debugability. Some ideas may become grant candidates. Updates to follow.
CIP-82 Quorum
Large voters (Gnosis, etc.) have not yet voted. MFW requested that the topic be raised in the team's weekly meeting to push for participation. The vote must pass before the end of January for the committee mandate to continue.