Terminology

1. Core Concepts

   • DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging): Investing the same amount at set times.

   • Order: The instructions for your automated DCA, including tokens, amounts, timing, and preferences.

   • Vault: Where your order’s tokens are stored, can also earn yield if enabled.

   Order Setup

   • Order Parameters: Info needed for a DCA order (what to buy, how much, how often, recipient, slippage, staking options).

   • tokenIn: The token the order creator is selling or spending for each trade.

   • tokenOut: The token the order creator wants to buy or receive for each trade.

     • For the order creator: You deposit tokenIn and want to receive tokenOut over time.

     • For the filler: You provide tokenOut to the order and receive tokenIn as payment.

   Timing & Frequency

   • Frequency Interval: How often your order runs (e.g., daily, weekly).

   • Scaling Interval: Adjusts price tolerance if your order waits longer to execute.

   • First Execution: When your order starts.

   Price & Slippage

   • Slippage: Max difference you allow between expected and actual price.

   • Basis Points: Unit for small percentages (1 bp = 0.01%).

   • Price Feed: Where real-time token prices come from (e.g., Chainlink).

   • Feed Age Limit: How fresh the price data must be.

   Yield & Staking

   • Staking: Earn interest on tokens while waiting by lending to DeFi platforms (like Aave).

   • aToken: Interest-earning token you get when staking with Aave.

   • Stakable Token: Token that can be staked for yield.

   Execution

   • Fill: Completing a DCA order (swapping tokens as specified).

   • Fillable Amount: How much can be executed right now.

   • Execution Value: Dollar value of a single execution.

   Access & Security

   • Order Creator: The person who made the order.

   • Recipient: Who gets the purchased tokens.

   • Fee Collector: Gets the protocol’s fees.

   Token Management

   • Token Properties: Info on each token (decimals, price feed, staking enabled).

   • WETH: Wrapped Ether for using ETH with smart contracts.

   • Permit2: Secure token transfer system from Uniswap.

   Order Lifecycle

   • Active Order: Still has trades left to run.

   • Cancelled Order: Stopped early, returns remaining tokens.

   • Completed Order: All trades done, order closes.