Zootroop (V7)

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Scope

Next quarter the Zootroop yTeam continues to provide advanced tools and services for yearn builders and users with a focus on:

• Supporting latest V3 innovations
• Developing external client relationships
• Finding easy ways to improve gaurantees around the quality and availability of our services

Plan

yHaaS Network

Multichain keeper network for yearn V3 with unparalleled gas efficiency and cost savings.

• SmartFlow development: Boost yearn vault yields by optimizing the order of vault asset flows and minimizing idle funds. The result is enhanced capital efficiency and lower gas costs.
• yHaaS Network BD
• Roll out on new chains in parallel with yearn V3 launches.

Kalani

An app for building and automating V3 allocator vaults.

• Add \ remove strategies from allocators
• Integrate v3 risk model
• Deposits \ Withdraws
• Safe integration
• Charts

Kong

A blockchain indexer designed for historical datasets and timeseries.

• On demand indexing api
• Integrate v3 risk model
• 4626 Expansion Sidequest
  • Establish simple rails for adding external 4626 vaults to the index
  • Build ETLs for sources like 4626 Alliance
  • By adding more 4626 vaults to Kong we give Kalani users more options when building allocator vaults

Liquidity Services

• Continue selling rewards for v2 and v3 strategies while optimizing these processes
• Keep collaborating with yLockers providing custom swapping service
• Keep collaborating with Dinobots as a heavy Cowswap's user
• Maintain up to date all the scripts needed for daily operation on Dinobots repository

Deadline

2025-2-01

People

LanceUpp
mil0x.eth
realmurderteeth

Money

Total Budget: $42,250/mo for three months
Compensation for the team (3 contributors): $40,750/mo
Servers and infra costs: $1,500/mo

Compensation is requested in yvUSDC-1

Amount (Total)

126,750

Wallet address

0xBd5CA40C66226F53378AE06bc71784CAd6016087

Reporting

Once

Q3 Report

Team goals

• Narrowed the focus and objective of Zootroop
• Started an ongoing conversation about business continuity and delivered one-pager operating manuals for our 3 major services, yHaaS, Rewards, and Kong. Available in Zootroop SA channel.

Kong

• New public endpoint, https://kong.yearn.farm/api/gql
• Shift to neon.tech for serverless postgres, no service disruption
• Add PPS to timeseries endpoint
• Maintenance

First Year of Service

• Kong went online September 2023
• One significant data outage, remedied within 4 hours of report
• Zero downtime

Kalani

• yHaaS signup flows for vaults and strategies
• yHaaS live stats
• Create allocator vault flow
• 4626 Explorer
• New lander experience
• Testnet scripts and deploy, https://hackmd.io/@murderteeth/rkoTq2dn0

yHaaS Network

• Successful launch of yHaaS Network on Optimism and Base.
• Updated yHaaS Network in parallel to newest debtAllocator version.
• New custom end-to-end automation for Optimism Routers.
• Automation of yearn V3 vaults across Mainnet, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Base, and Gnosis Chain: Milestone of 5000+ tx automated with yHaaS Network since inception in March '24.
• Gas savings of Ξ0.8 per month this quarter (compared to Gelato).
• Even higher automation demand in recent months due to release of new strategies and increased yield optimization. Efficient gas savings of yHaaS Network more important than ever before.Mainnet yHaaS Network automation history

Liquidity Services

• ~1M USD value of rewards swapped, +170 tx sent, selling rewards from ETH, GC and ARB.
• Use of Cowswap twaps for large volumes of low liquidity assets.
• Custom solution for Silo strategies on Arbitrum
• Trade SMS's assets sited on Dumper contract
• Modulation of thresholds in line with gas prices

ZooTroop Dash

• Dashboard: Improved KPI tracking and indexed missing vaults. Benchmarking against other protocols (in progress).
• Assisted team members with revenue and expense requests, as well as inquiries related to vault fees.
• Arbitrum Dashboard Maintenance: Continued support for the Arbitrum Foundation, addressing requests to maintain dashboard relevance.
• As of next quarter, Dashboards will transition from ZooTroop to YReport Budget.

About

The Zootroop yTeam is dedicated to enhancing Yearn v3's functionality through automation and innovative tools. We develop comprehensive solutions for vault management, including harvest automation, blockchain indexing, and analytics dashboards, enabling efficient tracking of key metrics. Our goal is to empower strategists and developers with intuitive apps for the Yearn v3 protocol.

Links

apps

Kalani
Kong
Seafood
Kalani Testnets

previous budgets

Zootroop V6 BR
Zootroop V5 BR
Zootroop V4 BR
Zootroop V3 BR
Zootroop V2 BR
Zootroop V1 BR

[murderteeth]

notice: RoboWoofy has officially entered maintenance mode

• kx9x will remain as an unpaid maintainer to help keep the lights on
• We'll also determine the best way to share hosting responsibilities and form a simple continuity plan
• For any RoboWoofy bugs or features that do come up, we'll work out bounties
• Otherwise no budget requested