Period: December 1 – December 6, 2025

🆕 New Developments

💻 UTM Tracking for SDK Developer Attribution MFW developed and merged automatic UTM tracking into the CoW SDK. This enables the Grants Committee to track trading volume attributed to community SDK developers, providing measurable impact data for grant evaluations. MFW compensated €100 for this work. GitHub PR #722

💼 November Payment Cycle Executed • Completed Dec 4 Four transactions processed (nonces 247-250): Council stipends with MFW's UTM compensation, Core Contributor Researcher grant completion (60 hours confirmed by Felix H.), and Internationalization grant final payments (xDAI + COW vesting). Elena confirmed i18n work deployed to production under feature flag Dec 4.

✅ Two Snapshot Votes Passed • Dec 4

• Offline Development Mode (Bleu) - 16,800 xDAI + 16,800 COW vesting. Self-contained Anvil environment with Uniswap V2 liquidity for backend engineer testing. Forum Thread | Snapshot Vote
• Block Explorer Integration (Code Builders) - $7,500 for Otterscan integration with Playground. Forum Thread | Snapshot Vote

🔨 Playground RFP Evaluations Complete • Decisions posted to forum MFW completed technical review of Block Explorer RFP responses:

• Block Explorer Integration (Code Builders): Approved Dec 2 for $7,500. Integrates Otterscan for local transaction inspection with full traces, logs, and decoded call data. Forum Thread
• Block Explorer (0xmitch): Rejected Dec 1. Custom implementation deemed too fragile with unnecessary dependencies (Next.js, rolling complete block explorer). Forum Thread
• Performance Testing Suite (Bleu): Approved as-is. Synthetic load generation and API stress testing. Forum Thread

📢 Grants Declined This Week

• R SDK Grant: Declined Dec 1. DeFi tooling consolidated around Python/TS/Rust. Applicant (Saw Simeon) will build as community project first. MFW pointed to UTM PR Dec 3 for volume attribution once built. Forum Thread
• Telemetry Grant: Declined. Existing frontend already has telemetry, SDK telemetry would create linear grant growth without proportional value. Forum Thread
• Community Growth Grant (Kara): Declined. Known grant farmer. Discussion initiated about updating forum language to remove "community growth" from funding categories. Forum Thread

🚧 In Progress

🔗 CCXT Integration Grant Tanto/Bhavya posted update Dec 1: PR submitted to CCXT repository, 90% implementation complete. MFW posted guidance Dec 2 requesting test instructions and code coverage verification before payout. Bhavya confirmed Dec 4 will set up test repo with instructions. Council position: won't hold payment indefinitely for external CCXT team review—will pay based on internal verification if external review delays. Forum Thread | CCXT PR #27319

💻 Shepherd Grant Application • Needs core team reviewer MFW submitted €38K grant Dec 1 for WASM-based automation infrastructure to replace hardcoded watch-tower (TWAP, Ethflow). 380 hours over 9.5 weeks. As technical lead and committee member, MFW will abstain from voting. Sov reached out to Anxo for core team technical review. Forum Application