Hi @Tane,
Thank you for your support and for requesting more details on the $250K V4 and $90K Unichain budgets. We appreciate the DAO’s emphasis on transparency and are happy to provide a breakdown to ensure confidence in the funding allocation.
V4 Integration ($250,000):
- Backend Infrastructure ($150,000):
- Indexing V4 Protocol: To index V4 events, enabling real-time pool analytics and hook discovery. This is the single most challenging part of integrating V4. We expect it to consume at least one dedicated month of a senior backend engineer and likely one to two additional months of ongoing improvements/maintence.
- Routing Setup: Basic Uniswap V4 routing should not take more than a week for a senior engineer to sort out. However, as we build out additional layers to support more V4 markets, we can see this potentially ballooning.
- Peripheral Systems: Everything we have right now is set up for having Uniswap V3. We’re going to need to make quite a few updates to go from 1 → 2 integrated DEXs.
- Frontend Development:
- UI Design: We are budgeting at least one month for total UI updates related to
adding V4 support. This will include time to create new V4 pool creation, LP management, analytics, and trading elements. - Implementation: We are budgeting at least two months to implement and test the UI updates, ensuring seamless V3/V4 integration with one senior and one junior frontend engineer. Post-launch, we are expecting the engineers to continue to improve and iterate on the user experience for at least two months.
- UI Design: We are budgeting at least one month for total UI updates related to
- Deliverables: V4 liquidity management tools, analytics dashboard, data API, and trade routing, delivered within 2 months.
Unichain Maintenance ($90,000), $7,500/month for 12 months:
For historical context, as previously posted on the forum, our typical rate is $45K for a chain’s initial integration and $5K/month for ongoing support. Recently, we have begun to step up our V3 monthly pricing.
- Server: Ongoing costs for hosting Oku globally and performantly.
- Indexing: RPC costs for indexing Unichain V3 & V4 data.
- Support and Maintenance: Our team of 16 pushes new site releases multiple times a week, we have around-the-clock user support, and we’re continuously improving.
- Deliverables: Unichain V3 deployment within 2 weeks, V4 support post-Ethereum integration, and continuous UX improvements.
The figures reflect preferential pricing for the DAO (e.g., waiving Unichain’s standard integration fee).
We’re committed to delivering measurable outcomes and will provide the DAO with regular progress updates. Please let us know if you need further granularity or have suggestions for optimizing the budget!