Funding 

The OGP will provide a grant of $120k in OSMO to MilkWay for the development of their liquid staking protocol on Osmosis. In exchange for this grant, MilkyWay has agreed to the following terms: 1) MilkyWay will provide the Osmosis DAO (Community Pool) with MILK tokens worth $120k (100K + 20% premium) at the time they raise and the Community Pool will receive the full amount at launch, 2) 3% of MILK LP incentives will be exclusively reserved for Osmosis liquidity pools, 3) to avoid confusion with other liquid staking products, MilkyWay will not use "st" in their ticker for any of their liquid staking tokens, 4) MilkyWay will not launch on mainnet until after the completion of the Oak Security audit and resolution of all findings. The grant milestones are as follows: Milkyway mainnet launch on Osmosis (milestone 1), token generation event of Milkyway's native token, MILK (milestone 2).

MilkyWay is a liquid staking protocol tailored for the Celestia ecosystem built on Osmosis. When users stake their TIA coins with MilkyWay, they'll receive milkTIA, an onchain representation of their TIA staking position. This will enable Celestia token holders to unlock liquidity for their staked assets, creating an opportunity to optimize their capital by either providing liquidity to Osmosis pools or using them as collateral in various DeFi products. Since the MilkyWay protocol will live on Osmosis, it will significantly increase Osmosis TVL by capturing a large share of liquidity for TIA liquid staking, which will result in Osmosis acting as a liquidity hub for the Celestia ecosystem. What's more, the fact that the Osmosis DAO will have significant ownership in the MilkyWay protocol will allow Osmosis to have an important say on Celestia's economic decisions. Jay B Kim is a software engineer with a rich background in blockchain development, as he was previously the CTO of Cosmostation and an auditor for Oak Security. He's been actively involved in the Cosmos ecosystem for the few past years, dating back to even before the Cosmos Hub mainnet launch.

$120,000 (in OSMO)

42% upfront / 42% for milestone 1 / 16% for milestone 2

3 months

JayB

To build 1) public observability dashboards to monitor the real-time state of Osmosis pools and IBC flows, 2) a monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection suite for Osmosis’ IBC rate limits, and 3) to perform research on IBC rate limits to improve and extend their functionality. Milestone 1 = at completion of the public observability dashboards; Milestone 2 = at completion of the monitoring suite for IBC rate limits; Milestone 3 = delivery of research report on IBC rate limits.

Real-time observability dashboards with metrics-based alerts and daily/weekly summary reports will help the Osmosis core team and community monitor the current state of Osmosis pools and IBC transactions. Range's monitoring suite and research on IBC rate limits will help the Osmosis community set parameters and have more data-driven and grounded discussions about the trade-offs between security and UX (liquidity and composability) of rate limits. After having received a grant from the OGP, the Range team has completed the inital version of their runtime monitoring toolkit, which is currently in private beta. In the past, the team has contributed to a number of DeFi protocols, audited CW projects with Oaks Security (e.g. Anchor, Mars, Sei), and have found and patched critical vulnerabilities in chains like Stargaze.

$50,000 (in OSMO)

10% upfront / 30% for Milestone 1 / 20% for Milestone 2 / 40% for Milestone 3

6 months

Range

To add Metamask support for the Cosmos ecosystem in their initial, permissioned launch of Metamask Snaps – an open source system that will allow anyone to extend the functionality of MetaMask. This integration will allow Metamask users to sign Cosmos transactions with their existing accounts. Integrating the Cosmos ecosystem with Metamask will be a huge unlock, as it will give Metamask's ~20M users access to the Cosmos ecosystem in one go.

This grant will be funded in collaboration with the ATOM Accelerator DAO, who will also provide funding to Mystic Labs for this project. Mystic Labs are the lead contributors to DeFund Finance, a Cosmos L1 for asset managers and ETF providers. The team is also a contributor to Agoric and has designed ICS-31, the standard for Interchain Queries.

50,000 USDC

100% at completion

3 months

Mystic Labs

Confio will focus on protocol design and backend development. Initially, Confio will focus on refining and documenting the design and architecture, to enable all contributors to be effective and coordinate their work. Once the plan is clear, Confio will take responsibility for the development of all needed smart contracts (with some help from external contributors) as well as the custom SDK module(s) for proper interaction with staking on the remote chain. Phase 1 Milestones (Phase 1 refers to the first 3 months following the start of the project): Milestone 1 = Delivery of a detailed Mesh Security architecture document; Milestone 2 = Integration of the Mesh Security MVP into the Osmosis and Juno codebases and demonstrating functionality on a devnet.

Funding sources: $220k (70k USDC and $150k in OSMO) from the OGP, and $50k USDC from the Osmosis Foundation.

$270,000 (OSMO + USDC)

28% for Milestone 1 / 28% for Milestone 2 / 44% split into three equal monthly payments

3 months

Confio

To build two different version of the Fee Abstraction Module. The first version will allow customer chains to pay fees in any IBC token on Osmosis using oracle TWAP data (Milestone 1). The second version will leverage packet forward middleware to allow chains to take the accumulated fees and swap them for their native token using Osmosis (Milestone 2). Notional will also assist the Osmosis team with the chain-specific technical implementations. We will award Notional with retroactive grants for each chain-specific implementation, depending on the work involved and importance of the customer chain.

The chains that deploy v1 of the Fee Abstraction Module will enable their users to pay transaction fees in any IBC token available on Osmosis, using Osmosis’ TWAPs oracles to determine the conversion rate. Customer chains who choose to deploy v2 of the module will use the Osmosis DEX in the background to swap out the accumulated fees into the chain's native token, which should contribute to volume on Osmosis significantly. Notional is a repeat grantee and long-time contributor to Osmosis and the Cosmos ecosystem at large. The Notional team is one of the top Cosmos SDK experts, and is well-postioned to deliver on this grant.

$90,000 (in OSMO)

28% upfront / 33% at completion Milestone 1 / 39% at Milestone 2

3 months

Notional

To build an in-protocol custom MEV module for Osmosis that aims to capture and distribute MEV to Osmosis participants. Note that the delivery of the grant is conditional upon governance approval. The milestones are as follows: Milestone 1 = delivery of MVP on Osmosis testnet with at least 10-20 validator partners; Milestone 2 = mainnet launch with integration of all validators.

Skip's custom MEV module for Osmosis will unlock arbitrage revenue (which currently goes to MEV searchers) for the DAO, opening a new source of rewards for stakers and validators.

75,000 USDC

33% upfront / 33% at completion of Milestone 1 / 33% at completion of Milestone 2

6 months

Skip Protocol