CoW DAO

MEV Blocker, a project aimed at enabling safe Ethereum usage, has proposed that builders pay a fee to access its order flow. This move is intended to keep MEV Blocker 100% free for users, supporting its goal of allowing anyone to use Ethereum securely. The draft proposal is open for comments from the community.

CoW Protocol, a decentralized trading platform that finds the best prices across exchanges and protects users from maximal extractable value (MEV), is currently hiring for a DevOps Engineer role. The company is seeking candidates with a passion for cryptocurrency and experience in building and maintaining infrastructure. In addition to the job opening, CoW Protocol has announced a referral program where individuals can earn up to 6,000 USDC for referring qualified candidates.

CoWSwap, a decentralized exchange protocol, has launched a new Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP) feature that allows users to set downside protection for their trades. A user reported a positive experience with the TWAP feature, praising its smooth user experience and the ability to prevent trades from executing below a specified price threshold. CoWSwap aims to find the best prices across multiple exchanges and aggregators while protecting users from Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) issues.

According to insights shared by Felix Leupold during a panel discussion hosted by Blockworks, CoW Swap aims to utilize batch auctions to consolidate the fragmented liquidity landscape in decentralized finance (DeFi) and facilitate more capital-efficient swaps across the ecosystem. Leupold explained that CoW Swap's multi-dimensional batch auctions do not require a numeraire token and enable more efficient ring trades.

CoW DAO is an organization that builds products to protect users from Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) attacks, a form of price exploitation enabled by re-ordering transactions in a block. MEV costs traders millions in losses from slippage exploitation, liquidity provider losses, and frontrunning of NFT mints. CoW DAO's suite of products includes CoW Swap to prevent MEV for DeFi trades, CoW AMM to protect liquidity providers, and MEV Blocker to shield all Ethereum users. The DAO advocates for MEV searchers, who currently facilitate MEV, to become CoW Protocol solvers instead, using their capabilities to benefit users rather than exploit them.

Searchers are identified as the main perpetrators of MEV, yet they share similarities with solvers. Solvers play a vital role in CoW Protocol by securing optimal prices and shielding users from MEV. The proposal of transforming searchers into solvers is suggested.

CoW AMM now offers batch uniform clearing prices for all token pairs, along with a solver competition, enabling liquidity providers to eliminate LVR and the associated 5-7% tax on their liquidity.

CoW Swap, a decentralized aggregator in the world of DeFi, enables users to trade between ERC-20 tokens. Users can add custom tokens to the platform to trade them, ensuring a smooth experience. By pasting the official token contract address, users can import custom tokens to CoW Swap for trading. CoW DAO, an open organization supporting DeFi products like CoW Swap, aims to create a fair financial system.

CoW Protocol is looking to hire a Backend Engineer with Rust. They are seeking a candidate passionate about crypto and with experience in the field. They also have a referral program in place where referrers can earn 6K USDC. More info available through the provided link.

CoW DAO has launched the CoW AMM, the first MEV-capturing automated market maker designed to protect liquidity providers from loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR). LVR costs liquidity providers over $500 million annually and is responsible for more price exploitation than all other forms of MEV combined. The CoW AMM uses a batch auction model to rebalance liquidity pools based on surplus, capturing arbitrage value for LPs and shielding it from MEV bots. Research suggests that the returns for CoW AMM LPs will be equal to or better than those for traditional AMMs. Launching the CoW AMM is an extension of CoW DAO's mission to protect Ethereum users from MEV.