Period: November 4 – November 10, 2025
💻 CCXT Connector Grant Approved Tonto's application passed Snapshot vote after fixing quorum settings. Implementation timeline and payment processing to follow. Snapshot vote
🛡️ ZeroMev Infrastructure Maintenance Final deliverables verified and grant closed. Core team discontinuing ZeroMEV maintenance. Final COW vesting payment completed.
💻 Ethers.js v5 to v6 Migration SDK upgrade delivered. Grant closed with deliverables confirmed by committee.
📢 Core Team Technical Reviewers Secured Felix confirmed as reviewer for Core Contributor Researcher grant. MFW serving as grants steward for pending applications.
📚 Core Contributor Researcher Grant • Moving to Snapshot Economics researcher with solver team internship proposing protocol redesign collaboration. Felix reviewing technical aspects. Vote launching Nov 11. Forum discussion
💻 Rust SDK for CoW Protocol • Requested for Snapshot Developer completed revisions based on MFW feedback. Committee processing for Nov 11-12 vote. Forum thread
⚙️ Tycho/Propeller Heads Development • Update Expected Markus confirmed work resuming after delays. MFW following up via Telegram. Detailed update expected next week. Forum thread
🚧 PolySwap Grant • Termination Review Grantee took CTO role at Cork Protocol causing 3-month pause. No response to committee outreach. Cancellation pending if no forum update received.
🌉 Optimism Co-Incentives Program • Planning Phase Optimism approved grant at reduced amount. Sov coordinating with Alex V on co-incentive structure.
💻 CoW Protocol Playground RFPs - Providing guidance to potential grantees and drumming up interest in applications from qualified builders.
⚡ Methane: ERC-4337 Gas Abstraction MFW proposing "Methane" - account abstraction enabling users to pay gas in USDC instead of ETH. System bundles ERC-4337 transactions and swaps USDC to ETH via CoW Protocol. Aligns with CoW's gasless vision. One-pager in development for core team appetite check.
📋 2026 Grant Program Renewal Committee preparing renewal CIP for 2026 budget. Target draft in the next few weeks. Discussions to analyze grant deployment excluding historical core contributor payments to show accurate program view.
🔗 Ryze Protocol Integration Inquiry Ryze Protocol (Base) offering solver grants for Smart-Shielded Pool integration. SSPs eliminate impermanent loss with 0.05%-0.2% slippage. Directed to forum for formal proposal. Discord discussion