# Overview and Reports

> **Note: As of 15 May 2022, v1 of the grants program is replaced by v2**

The 0x Ecosystem Value Experiment (0xEVE) is designed as an ambitious, six-month (26 weeks), experimental initiative focused on value creation and capture for the 0x protocol and its broader ecosystem.

Potential areas of experimentation include:

* Adding features and improving protocol functionality
* Performing tokenomics review, optimization, and potential revamp
* Incentivizing and improving support for new and existing market makers
* Providing liquidity to select ZRX pairs
* Incentivizing order flow and trading volume, including via relayers, dApps, etc.
* Improving the user experience for staking
* Building and updating developer and user tools, including documentation refresh
* Developing more sophisticated research and analytics capabilities
* Assisting with dApps and new integrations, especially projects using order books
* Experimenting with new business models and monetization paths, including new use cases for Mesh
* Strengthening our community through outreach and rewards
* Ramping up marketing
* Driving support for strategic initiatives
* Conceptualizing and executing social media campaigns
* Hosting and advertising 0x hackathons
* Engaging with emerging developer communities, such as BSC, Polygon, Solana, etc.

Operations team:

* Lead: [@nikita](https://gov.0x.org/u/nikita)
* Core Team: [@SonOfPegasus](https://gov.0x.org/u/sonofpegasus), [@0xSHA](https://gov.0x.org/u/0xsha)
* Council: [@JoaoCampos89](https://gov.0x.org/u/joaocampos89), [@gabririgo](https://gov.0x.org/u/gabririgo)
* Advisors: [@mintcloud](https://gov.0x.org/u/mintcloud) + others TBD