Please describe your proposed solution

USDM/ADA pair is one of the most often traded pairs on the Genius Yield DEX. Expanding the DEX's offer to USDM/CNTs pairs is a natural answer to traders' needs, as well as to community's feedback.

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

Support for non-ADA pairs could enhance market efficiency by eliminating the necessity for traders to perform frequent transfers into and out of ADA. This would result in reduced transaction fees and bolster Cardano's attractiveness to the DeFi community.

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

A talented team of developers and engineers whose combined decades of experience has created one of the most innovative DeFi platforms to date.

Some accomplishments include:

1. The Genius X Accelerator and Launchpad - one of the first tokenized, blockchain-agnostic business accelerators and launchpads for fully-vetted, early-stage blockchain startups. The Genius X Accelerator helps ambitious founders turn their visions from startups into impactful and scalable solutions that add value across multiple blockchains. Genius X accelerates the most promising startups by providing advisory support in areas such as marketing, business strategy, token design, fundraising, as well as token sales, giving them the edge to become successful.
2. Genius Yield DEX - the innovative order-book DEX, that fully utilizes Cardano's unique EUTxO architecture, unlocking the tremendous efficiency of trades.
3. Decentralized - open-source DEX that fully utilizes the EUTxO architecture. Fair and decentralized order matching is secured by the open-sourced Smart Order Routers (SORs) that make AMM-like batchers obsolete. SORs are technically superior, as they can execute orders in parallel due to the high level of order fragmentation created by the order book.
4. Deterministic - say goodbye to large slippage amounts and know what you're going to get at the order’s execution. As Genius Yield DEX doesn't use batchers to match orders, the price is locked at order submission. Large slippage amounts are a risk in EVM chains and shouldn't be an issue on Cardano!
5. Efficient - The EUTxO architecture and matching orders with SORs allowed us to cut fees in an unprecedented way and eliminate impermanent loss! We've created the most efficient DEX in the ecosystem. Moreover, by staking $GENS traders participate in Genius Yield’s Fees Sharing Program, which unlocks passive rewards sharing opportunity and transfers 20% of the DEX’s fees to the stakers.
6. Atlas - Atlas is Genius Yield's state-of-the-art Plutus Application Backend (PAB) in Haskell. Atlas is an off chain, backend tool that allows dApps to interface with the Cardano blockchain and execute Plutus smart contracts. Genius Yield has open-sourced Atlas, making the solution available to any Cardano developer. A high-quality PAB will increase innovation and developer adoption on Cardano by significantly reducing the resources new developers would need to create dApps. Some of the biggest projects on Cardano, such as World Mobile, which is building the first mobile network built on the blockchain, is utilizing Genius Yield's PAB for its technology. <http://bit.ly/3LXfFPn>

At Genius Yield, we firmly believe that sustainable growth can be achieved through collaboration with the Cardano community and the ecosystem. That’s why selected, core elements of our DEX were open-sourced:

• Market Maker Bots
• Smart Order Routers
• Plutus Application Backend “Atlas”
• Trading Bot API
• DEX’s Smart Contracts

What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Milestone 1: Pair price reference asset

Time required: 2 weeks

Key results: Update the Genius Yield DEX systems in order to be able to specify a price reference asset per trading pair.

Milestone 2: ADA agnostic

Time required: 2 weeks

Key results: Update the Genius Yield DEX systems to remove all explicit references to ADA and to replace with the price reference asset.

Final Milestone: Provision non ADA pairs

Time required: 1 week

Key results: Provision and deploy non-ADA pairs.

Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Laurent Bellandi - Chief Executive Officer &amp; Co-Founder

Laurent is a serial entrepreneur who has focused on digital/online businesses for over 20 years. Lately he co-founded both Genius Yield, one of the most innovative DeFi protocols, and the Genius X accelerator. At Genius X he manages the day-to-day operations of the program and launchpad operating team, formulating the long-term business strategy and leading strategic decisions.

Dr. Lars Brünjes - Chief Technology Officer &amp; Co-Founder

Lars is a mathematician and Haskell developer. As Director of Education at Input Output Global (IOG), the engineering research company behind the development of the Cardano blockchain, Lars has taught thousands of people how to build smart contracts. As Chief Technology Officer of Genius X (and Genius Yield), Lars leads research &amp; development with the technical team, and has written the smart contract code for Genius X Launchpad, and other products on the Genius X platform.

Dr. Sothy Kol-Men - Chief Regulatory Officer &amp; Co-Founder

Sothy has over 20 years of experience in digital finance, investments, building new ventures, and regulation. He is a legal expert, guiding Genius X (and Genius Yield) through legal and regulatory matters for fintech rules and regulatory compliance, particularly for the Genius X Launchpad. Sothy is also a highly regarded professional in the Swiss and European crypto network, where he leverages his network for originating high-potential founders and projects for the Genius X Accelerator Program.

Dikemba Balogu - Chief Financial Officer

Dikemba is finance professional with years of experience in portfolio management, equity research, capital markets, valuation, and financial planning. As Chief Financial Officer of Genius Yield and Genius X, Dikemba leads financial planning and forecasting, profit optimization strategies for products, long-term product development and strategy, and token economics. Dikemba has advised 20+ startups on business strategy, token valuation, creating token utilities, token distribution schedules, and budgeting and forecasting.

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Milestone 1:

$50/hr x 2 weeks x 40 hr/week = $4,000

Milestone 2:

$50/hr x 2 weeks x 40 hr/week = $4,000

Final Milestone:

$50/hr x 1 week x 40 hr/week = $2,000

TOTAL ($) = $10,000

TOTAL ($0.45/ADA) = 22,222 ADA

No dependencies.

How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

Blockchain developer hourly rates are charged at an international industry standard of ~$50 an hour. Reference: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#work-salary