With the support of the Stellar Community Fund (SCF), we aim to achieve the following milestones for the growth and development of the Aquarius ecosystem: Soroban-powered AMMs: Soroban brings new opportunities to Stellar, so our first aim is to experiment and build a set of Automated Market Maker (AMM) smart contracts running on Soroban futurenet. We will launch a simple demo AMM interface to showcase the new capabilities. We will experiment with various AMM design ideas and do the initial research needed to build a more complex AMM that will power Aquarius when Soroban goes live. Add Rewards for Liquidity Providers on Soroban: We plan to use Soroban to build the distribution engine for AQUA liquidity rewards. AQUA rewards will incentivize users to provide liquidity to the Soroban AMM. The distribution engine will run as a set of Soroban smart contracts (on futurenet) and will calculate and distribute liquidity rewards to LPs accordingly. This goes in line with our goals to further decentralization of Aquarius. Introduce Aquarius Users to Stellar Smart Contracts: Our goal is to familiarize the existing user base, ecosystem projects, and 122,000 AQUA token holders (165K trustline holders) with upcoming smart contracts on Stellar, and encourage them to experiment with Soroban futurenet and learn more about Soroban-powered solutions. In summary, with SCF's support, we will move towards expanding and improving Aquarius' ecosystem, leveraging Soroban's smart contract capabilities to develop innovative DeFi products.
