text: Hopefully someone will give us some advice....I'm getting real nervous about having no protection for going on three days now
  
  For a pilot of four weeks starting at 00:00 UTC on Monday, January 25, with possible extension until the launch of Balancer v2, we would allocate up to 7,500 BAL each week to the reimbursement of gas costs for swaps performed through the Balancer Exchange Proxy.
  We understand that gas costs and usability issues in Balancer v1 have been a bit of a hindrance for many users. Balancer v2 is on the way and set to improve this situation immensely, but in the meantime we have recently launched the new and improved exchange UI and would be thrilled to invite users to give it a try without incurring undue personal cost.
  Similar to the current liquidity mining claims process, where calculations are run once for each weekly period and claims are made available via a MerkleRedeem contract. The script used for computing the reimbursements would live off chain, along with the liquidity mining scripts, and it would be fully open source and auditable by anyone.
  Eligible transactions: transactions made from externally owned accounts directly to the Balancer Exchange Proxy (contract address: 0x3E66B66Fd1d0b02fDa6C811Da9E0547970DB2f21). The goal is to target traders who are using the Balancer Exchange UI. We would use â€œEOA interacts with Exchange Proxy directlyâ€� as a heuristic to determine that the trade comes from a user of the Balancer Exchange UI. This should prevent most on-chain arbitrage bots from benefiting from the program, as most make their trades via proprietary smart contracts.
  It is important to distinguish between a swap and a transaction and to note that a transaction through the Balancer Exchange Proxy can contain a number of swaps; a swap is simply one leg of an exchange transaction. For example, a transaction that routes BAL->WETH->DAI contains two eligible swaps: BAL->WETH and WETH->DAI. Similarly, a transaction that routes ineligible token XYZ through XYZ->WETH->DAI contains only one eligible swap: WETH->DAI, and a direct swap of XYZ->WETH is wholly ineligible. Finally, a transaction that routes a BAL->WETH trade through two BAL-ETH pools contains two swaps.
  It follows that any transaction totaling less than 100,000 gas per eligible swap and utilizing a gas price less than or equal to the blockâ€™s median would be fully reimbursed, while others partially reimbursed.
  Reimbursements would be made in BAL, while gas is priced in terms of ETH, so a conversion is required. The price oracle would be CoinGeckoâ€™s API, with the median BAL/ETH price from the week being used for all of that weekâ€™s reimbursements.