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Project Name & Description
DZAP is an intent-based execution layer that turns multi-step DeFi actions into a single click. This grant funds a one-click RIF staking flow on Rootstock: a user picks any supported asset and amount and DZap handles swap → stake in one batched, atomic transaction, removing the hurdles with manual swaps. Making staking a one click seamless operation. -
Team Background
Built by a globally distributed team of ~15, with 8+ years of blockchain development experience and a track record of launching and scaling products across multiple chains.- Shivam Chopra, Founder: LinkedIn - shivamdev , TG: @shivam0x
- Abhijeet Maurya, CTO: LinkedIn - abhijeet0x , TG: @abhijeet_0x
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Total Grant Amount
$4,500, requesting $1350 for Milestone 1 -
Milestone 1 Deliverables
Protocol indexing - Completed -
Milestone 2 & 3
Execution layer setup (RIF staking contracts integrated) - In Progress -
Timeline
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Technical Specs
- Architecture: input asset → swap into RIF → stake → stRIF returned, batched into one atomic execution.- Audit status: DZap’s contracts are already audited — details here: Security & Audits - DZap
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**Value Prop for Rootstock
Solution - 1 Click Staking
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User: selects input asset + amount → confirms once. DZap: swaps into RIF → stakes → returns stRIF, batched into one atomic action.We expect the flow to onboard new users into RIF staking and route recurring swap + stake volume over the measurement window. We’ll publish live numbers on the dashboard from launch and work with the collective to enhance coverage.
Measured via: on-chain data (wallets, volume, stRIF positions) as the source of truth, surfaced on a public dashboard linked in each monthly report.
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**Demo and GitHub repo
Website: Dzap.io
Github:** GitHub - DZapIO/DZapZappingContracts · GitHub
Demo: ⚡DZap on X: "Liquidity onboarding should not be a fragmented multi-step process. Most users today still need to: Bridge → Swap → Balance assets → Approve → Add LP DZap converts this entire flow into one seamless transaction. The attached video shows how simple the end-user experience https://t.co/KXGBdLihks" / X -
Video Pitch:
Sample Flow: https://youtube.com/shorts/nmn2ZcMo3OQ?si=a0-Rh3b_F8PHQ4yb
Really excited to see this coming together! Making RIF staking a simple one-click flow is going to be a great experience. Looking forward to shipping this 
Hi @dzap thanks for this proposal. What assets do you plan to support and where is the liquidity coming from?
Hey @Axia thanks for your query. The liquidity is sourced from all the protocols on Rootstock indexed by DZap . For liquidity, we’ll aggregate from the existing DEX ecosystem and available liquidity venues on Rootstock.
Our routing engine will then source the best available execution across these venues, ensuring competitive pricing, efficient swaps and minimal slippage for users.
We will be enabling this feature for any asset across the Rootstock Network.
Hi @dzap thank you for the proposal.
We have two questions:
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First, the success of any intent-based architecture ultimately depends on the solver ecosystem. The key advantage of intents comes from having a sufficiently large and competitive set of solvers that can compete to provide users with the best possible execution. How do you plan to address this aspect? Will you operate your own solvers, or do you intend to rely on an existing intents infrastructure provider? Or is the proposal actually focused on a DEX aggregator for swaps rather than a full intent-based architecture? We would appreciate more detail on how the proposed intent-based mechanism works in practice and how execution will be handled.
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Second, the V3.2 Grants Guidelines require verifiable on-chain projections and metrics demonstrating that the requested grant is expected to generate a measurable impact on Rootstock. Accordingly, we would appreciate if you could provide your projected transaction volume and TVL targets, the expected timeline for achieving them, and the assumptions supporting those projections.
Hello @SEEDGov great questions, happy to clarify both.
**On intent architecture and solver dependency**
There’s a distinction worth drawing here: DZap uses intent-based UX, but we’re not an intent settlement protocol that relies on a competitive solver marketplace.
When a user submits an intent: in this case, “stake my assets into RIF” , DZap’s own graph based routing engine computes the optimal execution path and handles it directly using existing on-chain liquidity venues: DEXs, bridges on the target protocol (Rootstock) itself.
No external solver network is involved and the success of this integration isn’t contingent on building or attracting one.
For this proposal specifically, the flow is:
- User selects input asset and amount
- DZap routes and executes the swap into RIF
- RIF is staked automatically
- User receives stRIF
One confirmation. That’s it and steps 2-4 executed.
We orchestrate the full execution path which is also why we can offer meaningful reliability and latency guarantees, rather than being dependent on any one solver competition, we support all that are live on Rootstock for supreme quality.
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**On projected impact and verifiable metrics**
The simplest way to frame this: staking RIF already works.
DZap doesn’t replace it, we collapse the existing manual steps that currently sit in front of it (acquiring the right token, approving, then staking as a separate transaction) → into 1-click.
With 35M+ RIF already staked and the ABI sitting around 30%, the demand is demonstrably there. The friction is the journey.
Our projections reflect that:
- **70–80%** of staking volume from users who currently need a token swap routed through the one-click flow
- **~90%** adoption for first-time stakers, where onboarding friction is the most common drop-off point
We’ll publish a public dashboard from day one tracking:
- Unique wallets staking through DZap
- Total transactions executed
- Total volume routed into RIF staking
All on-chain and fully verifiable. We’ll also include these numbers in monthly reports.
We didn’t frame our KPIs around total RIF staking TVL because that’s influenced by market conditions, ecosystem incentives and broad protocol activity above and beyond our integration.
The metrics above isolate DZap’s direct contribution, which we think gives a more honest picture of impact post activation.
Longer term, once this foundation is live, we can plan to include cross-chain and also gasless execution options, so users can stake into RIF from assets held on Ethereum, Arbitrum, or elsewhere without touching rBTC first.
That’s the broader vision, but the grant scope is the core one-click flow.
Happy to answer any follow-ups or share a technical spec if that would help move things forward.