This grant will fund the integration, license ownership, and maintenance of Skip’s Slinky sidecar software that will be used to support a new price oracle mechanism and a permissionless market listing system for dYdX.

This grant funds the Skip team's ongoing work for the dYdX MEV dashboard, to monitor and analyze "Sovereign MEV" within the dYdX ecosystem. Created in collaboration with the dYdX research team, this dashboard will measure MEV through its proxy metric - "orderbook discrepancy". The underlying goal is to combat the negative aspects of MEV, such as atomic sandwich attacks, and to promote the benefits from benign MEV instances like arbitrage. Find more details about the dashboard’s purpose and utility here - https://dydx.exchange/blog/update-on-mev.