## **Milestones**

**The project timeline is estimated to 4 months.**

1. **Research and Development** (Month 1-2): 
    - **Deliverable**: Research report and development checklist
    - **KPI Alignment**: N/A
    - **Budget**: $30,000
2. **Frontend Design / API Development** **and iterations** (Months 2-4):  Testing and security assessment of the onchain infrastructure, development of custom graphs focused on Uniswap v4 liquidity provision and on swaps to efficiently distribute incentives, frontend developments for everyone to track the APRs on Uniswap pools, development of dashboards and monitoring tools to assess the efficiency of every campaign created, adaptation of the Merkl API to handle the new types of pools
- **Deliverable**:
    - a ready-to-use, audited, and battle-tested Merkl API and incentives distribution/pool discovery UX  to incentivize Uniswap v4 pools on Arbitrum,
    - integrate Uniswap v4 pools on Arbitrum to the Merkl pools’ discovery UX and UI that is familiar to thousands of current Uniswap and DeFi users,
    - a ready to use analytics to monitor and assess the efficiency of all incentives.
- **KPI Alignment**: N/A
- **Budget**: $60,000
1. **Engine Development and iterations** (Months 2-4): Adaptation of the Merkl smart contracts, Implementation of an adapted offchain engine focused specifically on Uniswap v4, work on the dispute logic so anyone can permissionlessly contest the rewards posted by the new Merkl engine
- **Deliverable**: a ready-to-use, audited, and battle-tested Merkl API and incentives distribution/pool discovery UX  to incentivize Uniswap v4 pools on Arbitrum,
- **KPI Alignment**: N/A
- **Budget**: $150,000